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Wellbert is right! Proof and inspiration and support is here... come get some! http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/4601-stronglifts-5x5-for-women

As soon as it gets heavy, you won't think that!

OHP - If you suffer from duck-butt as I do, then when you are doing OHP it should feel as if your pelvis is tilted forward, like you are trying to touch it to your belly button, attempt to maintain during the lift. This will keep strain off your back by ensuring that you don't arch.

my understanding is you only need to do assistance exercises if you .... well, need assistance! I do. I'm starting with lower abs! Once those start to feel stronger I need to assess my hip flexors and how to even them out. My right seems to be overdeveloped. And flexibility, mobility as often as I can push myself to do…

Well... poop! Skipped Friday intending to do Saturday and ended up fighting the flea battle all day by moving everything I could move and vacuming and then laying down diatomacious earth and was too tired after to even think of weight training. Then yesterday had a family emergency that is going to continue to take up my…

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look at thos ABS Baby!!! yep definately swimsuit reward time!

congratulations on finding SL and this group! and welcome! Be sure to read the sticky, it makes things much easier! :bigsmile:

Umies getting better still have a long way to go. I think the Serpentine is also demonstrated on Arms for Rachel. I also work on shimmies and undulations with chest pops thrown in and trying to keep my arms from either just hanging there or spasing out! Sometimes add in hip pops too.

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I see it help my glucose levels, I don't know about metabolism, however, cayenne is extreamly high in Vit C and other anti-oxidants and can help protect from and even cure ulcers so it really doesn't matter about the metabolism, as long as you see no adverse effects I say go for it!

I do them specifically as accessory workouts. That is to say to strengthen weak points that are hurting form during my lifts and I do them after my lifts. I only do 2, both work maybe the psoas, definately the transverse and at least a little bit of the obliques, I will probably add a little seperate oblique work once my…

I went by a percentage, which I don't remember, but I almost never meet it. :frown:

I use plastic weights for my deads on a standard bar so there's no dropping for me! I do think back down is the most likely to get injured.... could be wrong on that though.

n/a to get to the first link here at work, but my first and last name together are so common that there were 3 of us at my dermatologist's office (same middle name too), they had to seperate us via birthdays. There's one at another location in the global company I work for (different middle name), and I once had poice show…

cardio list is somewhat different from strength list but with some crossover: Pistol Grip Pump- Rage Against the Machine Push It- Salt and Peppa Renagades of Funk- Rage Against the Machine Carmina Burana- any version, Carl Orff is the composer Ride of the Valkerye- Wagner We will rock you- Queen One Vision- Queen Magic…

in theory they have. Mehdi sent out an email announcing the iphone one and said there was an android on on the way, but I've yet to see it. I also haven't looked for about 2 months. :tongue:

Soooo, I really need to focus more when I'm trying to hustle to get my workouts done before picking up the hubby. I did OHP last night... was supposed to do benches. Doh! Got all 5 sets of 5 reps of squats at 130, form a little shakey so gonna call that a fail and do it over. Amazing how much the tip of "holding a 'tennis…

There isn't much that infuriates me more than morons pushing straight up lies! Unless you are doing roids, girls cannot bulk up. It isn't freaking possible. Recently on mfp there's been some stories about some cheerleader who added 4 inches of muscle on her biceps naturally... I call bs! Not possible. Be lucky if you got…

OHP I use what I think my lean body mass should be and the range for women in the advanced catagory for OHP is between 65-125lbs the top weight being 199+ I think I should be at 130 ish so my max should be about 85lbs --- and OHP are hard! for squats its 168 the range is 129- 242. I don't know if this table is for your…

155 squats... dayam! 130 is so effing hard I can't even imagine 155! Somewhere in one of the threads is a link to weight tables for each lift of what it's normal to expect a woman to do, by weight class. I'll see if I can find it.

The only thing I would consider that might help would be if the gloves have a wrist wrap included and you use a mix grip. That way you aren't gripping harder in an effort to protect your wrists. Also the idea of starting where you think the bar will end up is an excellent one!. That being said the only relief I've gotten…

hmm. I'm guessing since you're with an endo that your thyroid is fine. How's your vit D panel? Do you take E supplements? The other things that have helped me are hot peppers, cinamon, caffeen, though I have to watch it w/the caffeen because of uric acid. Speaking of which, is that okay? Vit E, D including cod liver oil.…

Ask if you qualify for Byetta. If your insurance will cover it, it will jumpstart your weightloss and lower the amt of insulin you take. I'm off insulin completely at this point and have moved to Metformin. I had to quit Byetta due to cost, but I lost 20 lbs right off the bat w/out changing exercise, in about 2 months, I…

nice Job Rach! Love the pic Rae!

so my finals for April are Squats 130- fail Bench 95 grindy Row 95 grindy and not really pulling full reps either so these will be the start for may. ohp 55 deads 140 didn't successfully continue workouts w/out missing any, but did get them all in last week. so partial goal in that I'm making progress, right? :wink:

ran out of time last night, will try to check tonight. I failed pretty spectacularly last night at 130. Crumpled forward and then fell forward. Thankfully had my bench down and my catchweight chairs close so was able to do a modified roll of shame. lol. I'd never thought about ensuring the glutes are engaged by doing a…

not sure if they are avail in MFP but mine are listed as stiff legged here, but they aren't. lol. I'm also waaay to lazy to figure it out.

le *sigh* started w/wrong weight for squats, corrected and then failed spectacularly on the 3rd lift... crumpled too far forward and couldn't recover, tricky to escape' from. nothing hurt as far as I can tell. 3rd set did all 5 but too much crumple in danger of falling forward so think I'm calling it good for today for…

not in the hated catagory by any stretch but I do this! And before I slacked off during the holidays I was totally on my way, now I'm starting over and finally getting that energetic feeling back that I was getting before and the sensation of instant firm muscles after a workout. My stats are 51 yrs of age, 5 kids oldest…