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@willrun congrats on the engagement!! My workout was supposed to be squats last night, but instead I helped my roommate's sister and her husband move their 4 bedroom place into storage and a condo. It took 5 hours, and then they fed us copious amounts of ginger beef and chinese food afterwards. Yum yum! On a good note, my…

And we love it!

I haven't really decided yet what my goals are going to be this month, I'm waiting for SS to weigh in on food timing on my priority thread thing. Strength: 1. Do more than one unassisted chinup. 2. Actually deload on my squats and OHP if I need to, instead of just saying I will. Cardio: 1. Do at least one 60 min or 10 km…

I also started yesterday with a hangover, due to a stagette on Saturday night :bigsmile: I did a 7 km run yesterday, fueled completely by ice cream. Obviously my food goals are going to take some work this month lol.

LOL! You beat me to it, this is me every squat day.

OMG! Man, I can't add today, 10:14 lol

Sure thing :) I run a 10:16 IF split, so it looks like this: First meal: between 10:30-11:30 AM ~550 calories Second meal: 1 hour before lifting. This meal is pretty much the same thing all the time, and is 300 calories/33G protein/26G carbs/8G fat. My work schedule is variable, but lately this has been around 4 PM, and…

I third this!

I'm 5'3 on a good day :) Actually, funny fact, I measured myself after doing squats one day, and I was 5'2.5", but then the next morning I was 5'3 again. Weird hey?

I was losing half a pound a week, and I was anywhere from 140-145 pounds, and now I'm steady around 153. Sorry, last year I was doing stronglifts, and I was following the deload procedure that the app did automatically for me. I would stall on my fourth and fifth sets typically, and work my way back up and then re-stall on…

LOL! I snorted when I read that! I will do that, I've been having adherence issues in the past couple of months, so that's something I definitely need to work on. I dropped down to 1570 calories only since Monday (out of pure frustration and the fact that I have a wedding to attend in 2 weeks and no longer fit into my…

This is exactly why I love this group! You are all offering such fantastic support, comments and ideas :) I definitely have too many goals to focus on all of them at once, that's a very good point, and I love how being awesome is part of both choose your own adventures lol, ending in a horrible death is not my idea of a…

Happy Thursday ladies! (OMG it's Thursday already??) @wolfsbayne, thanks :) I get super cranky when I miss lifts lol. @stef, I loved your pep talk so much that I started a new thread to get some feedback :) I did squats last night, my 3 week of 5/3/1 Squats: 5 x 80 pounds 5 x 95 pounds 3 x 115 pounds 3 x 135 pounds 3 x 155…

Happy hump day! I did bench press last night, my 3 week of 5/3/1 Bench Press: 5 x 45 pounds 5 x 60 pounds 3 x 70 pounds 3 x 80 pounds 3 x 95 pounds 3 x 105 pounds- I got 1 rep and then did the roll of shame :grumble: I tried experimenting with foot placement, and I think my biggest problem with unracking was that I wasn't…

Strength: 1. I hit 205 pounds on my deadlifts, yay! 2. I didn't break my OHP plateau, going to deload next month. 3. I'm at 5 unassisted dips 4. I got my chinup! Cardio: 1. I did one run this month, need to get one a week in, but maybe shorten them to 5km runs. 2. Run stairs at least once a week.-got this one :) 3. Do…

This is a great calculator if you do want to look into Krok's plan :) http://www.1percentedge.com/ifcalc/ Choose Weight Loss, and that has you eating at TDEE-20% on rest days, and eating at TDEE on lifting days.

@stef, I just realized I missed part of your post earlier, I hope everything went well with your sister's father in law! @suremeansyes, congrats on the body fat loss! @krok, great work on clearing that box! :D @neon, great job working through the hangover, I'm glad beast mode is back! @katerina, I did something similar…

Thanks Stef! Those are really good points/videos as well, that's more like what I've been doing all along. I'm going to play around with my foot placement and shoulder placement on the bench on the next attempt, and I'm also going to try a power cage and lower the bar just a bit to see if that helps at all. This has given…

Rolling, rolling, rolling... Happy birthday to our May girls! Thanks so much! I googled her video, I think my setup needs a bit of work, my feet are definitely not that far back when I bench, and I'm not nearly as arched either. I'll be attempting her way on the next attempt :)

Hi Fittree! Yep, that's what I have to do, but I could be doing it wrong, it's highly likely :) Hmm, maybe it's time for a form check video, I haven't done one for bench yet. I watched Rippetoe's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQutODgl2J4 and he said when you look up your eyeballs should be on the side of the bar…

If I lift in the morning, I don't eat beforehand, I just drink some coffee for some quick energy. I don't do it often though, because I noticed my sessions don't go nearly as well if I lift on an empty stomach. I can do fasted cardio easily though, but I need to eat something 30 min prior to lifting or I have some major…

Thanks Krok! I was wondering the same thing about shinpads, except I was thinking of using them for deadlifts lol. My shins get bruised up every.single.time and it's finally shorts weather here and I have more bruises than when I was playing rugby! I was thinking the same thing, I just need the rack to be an inch lower.…

@dennie24-I haven't done the Ice Cream one (looks interesting though) but I went down to 3 x 5 on a cut as well, and when I stalled out on that, I switched to Wendlers because I couldn't handle squatting 3 times a week. Happy Friday ladies! I did bench press last night, my 5 week of 5/3/1 Bench Press: 5 x 45 pounds 5 x 60…

Really? Wow...maybe I'm still sick, I'm getting my weeks mixed up. Oh boy! Anyway, I thought you'd like to know I'm still being careful with the box jumps, like you told me to!

Awesome lifting ladies! I was lazy on Monday and sick on Tuesday, but I did manage to get a strength workout in last night. Squat day on Round 6 of Wendlers, my 5 week. Squat: 5 x 80 pounds 5 x 95 pounds 3 x 115 pounds 5 x 125 pounds 5 x 145 pounds 5 x 165 pounds-The last rep was ugly, but I got it this time. Last month I…

Happy Thursday ladies! Thanks for the chinup comments, you all are awesome! Wow there are so many great posts in here, I'm playing catchup with my comments :) @fittree, I'm continuously impressed with your numbers, they're my current goals :) @krok, your workouts would have me flat on my *kitten* lol! @neon, I hope the…

Yes! Extra awesomeness there!

Congrats! I hope he watched you pull that weight!