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You may want to look at the NROLFW group here on MFP. They can probably help you best. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/102-new-rules-of-lifting-for-women-nrol4w

When you put a 7' olympic barbell with weights on the ends over your shoulders or whatever what happens? You have to balance that thing. This engages lots of stabilizer muscles, including your obliques and abs. When you crank up on a handle attached to a pulley, what happens? It goes up and down. No balance required. Not…

Diamond pushups. Lots of them.

Plenty of good bodyweight routines. Convict training, etc. Find a gym from time to time that will give you a day to a week free pass.

1: Get friends here. 2: Support them and be supported by them. 3: Open your diary to the public so when you have questions they can help 4: Make sure your weight loss goal isn't set to 2 lbs a week 5: Set personal goals based on things you can actually do (like logging all your food honestly, or jogging 2 miles 5 days a…

It takes weeks. Some symptoms: Excessive loss of hair/shedding Thinning hair Irritability Mood swings Loss of libido Constant fatigue Lack of motivation Obsessive thoughts about food Food hoarding Ritualized consumption of food Wolfing down food Please do a search on the forums for '1200'. Read just some of the literally…

Angelacarroll311 has chosen to keep her profile private. So this guy goes into a mechanics. He says, hey I've been having problems with my car. It hasn't been running right. The mechanic says, oh let's go take a look at it. Well, my cars not here, says the guy. Oh, it won't start? asks the mechanic. No, it starts and runs,…

High Intensity Interval Traning Day 1: 5 min warmup, 30 seconds as hard as you can / 90 seconds rest / 8 cycles Day 2: 5 min warmup, 30 seconds as hard as you can / 85 seconds rest / 8 cycles Day 3: 5 - 30/80/8 Day 4 - 7: 5 - 30/75/8, 5 - 30/70/8, 5 - 30/65/8, 5 - 30/60/8 Day 8: 5 - 30/58/8 Day 9: 5 - 30/56/8 Day 10 - ?: 5…

Self confidence is so beautiful and so sexy. Congrats on that :)

If you have a smart phone, there are a lot of great apps to help you track your workouts. jefit (www.jefit.com) is a good multi use one, but lots of workout programs have their own specialized apps. And of course, it's a great tool to watch a video of how to perform a lift just before doing it. Then use the camera to…

Your diary isn't open, so it's hard to say for sure, but... I found success by gradually increasing my intake each week. For example, the first week I would drink a protein shake first thing in the morning (+90 calories). The next week, add a small handful of mixed nuts right after the workout (+100 calories). That sort of…

Not ridiculous at all. Fear prevents us from accomplishing a lot in our lives. Change is always uncomfortable. You know you want to do it. It's in your plan for 'sometime'. So if you want to do it, but it's just fear holding you back, make a plan to attack that fear. Do you know what lifting plan you're going to do yet?…

Number one complaint from people who get into weight lifting, and it's all over the place on this site: "I wish I had done it sooner". Absolutely no reason not to get into it now. You already look really good (at least in your profile pic). If you haven't already check out this post…

Sure: http://www.mensfitness.com/training/build-muscle/10-ways-lose-muscle Point #3 talks about how you have to amp up your cardio for it to burn muscle, specifically mentioning too many consecutive calories burned, sessions that last too long etc. The takeaway that's clear to anyone with a 6 grade grasp of logic is that…

It won't be entirely accurate because your HR will have shot up as a protection mechanism. Stress, etc, causes our HR to go up. Remember, it's not a beating heart that burns a bunch of calories. It's cells utilizing oxygen and fat that burns the calories. That being said, that calorie burn for your weight over that period…

My experience with Planet Fitness has not been good. The owner has even come out against the need for personal trainers. I don't know about yours, but the ones near me have gotten rid of all free barbells and only have a small selection of dumbbells and a smith machine. In my opinion, these should be the staple of any good…

Strength exercises are for actual weight lifting. It's used to keep track of where you are, or maybe let others know what you did. It doesn't actually have a calorie burn associated with it. What you actually did was much more along the lines of circuit training. You can find that in the cardio section. Counter-intuitive I…

It's a tough thing to wrap your head around, but losing weight isn't something you do. If it was, everybody would wake up and decide how much they wanted to weigh that day. Losing weight is a result of things you do, and there's an enormous amount of factors involved. Water retention, changing metabolism, hormone levels,…

Trainers are people too. They aren't infallible. There are some good teachers in this world and there are some bad ones. Make sure you are clear on your goals before you talk to them, and the timeline you are interested in. Make sure these are doable. For example, you can't say you want to add on 15 lbs of muscle over the…

Can you handle fruit smoothies?

I believe the moderately active multiplier, the way you are doing it, is a substitution of A, not an addition. For example, a sedentary person burns 20% more calories during the day than being in a coma: B = A * 0.22 A lightly active person burns 35%: B = A * 0.35 And a moderately active person burns 55%: B = A * 0.55…

Progress pics every 30 days, especially for lifters. Critical if you need motivation.

A big part of this notion comes becomes of what happens to the mitochondria in your cells. MC are the workhorses that breaks down food into energy. The more MC you have, the better, for a host of reasons. MC can either eat, or they can reproduce, they can't do both. When you eat late, you cut into the time that MC can…

If you are really doing an hour of cardio you are burning waaaaay more than 300-400 kcal. That's like 5 calories a minute, or approximately walking 3 to 4 miles an hour. And more than likely your calorie intake is too low. Don't forget, at 18 yrs old your body is still growing. Gotta feed it.

If it's an option, find an elliptical with both arm motions and elevation control. The elevation allows you to target different muscle groups. And don't forget you can also go backwards on an elliptical, changing the muscle load entirely. It's a wonderful machine.

Well, I hope each of those 30x5 areas are different lifts. At least say 6 per area. 10 would be better. Otherwise I don't think you're going to be moving enough mass to really stress the muscles into strength.

I would say until your body fat is in the mid single digits don't worry about it. It won't make a difference that you can see. The people going from 6% to 5% or lower are serious competitors with a whole battery of nutritional aids. Have you ever gotten in a water tank to calculate your body fat %? Have you ever had your…

You've been doing this routine for 5 months? Is it working for your goals?

Box squats are best bet. That being said, when done properly, squats are all about the hips. Your knees should be plenty behind your toes. I have bad knees, ruined by years of skateboarding, and they aren't affected by squats. I mean seriously, sometimes I step off a curb wrong, and it tweaks out. Squatting? No problem.

If all you want is to burn some fat, sure, nothing wrong with it.