bostonwolf Member

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^if you mean she isn't really eating 1400 calories, maybe.

This. Great advice.

I'm guessing this is a TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure) calculation. You can do several versions here and see for yourself. http://iifym.com/tdee-calculator/ I got about 2200 for your baseline. So you would eat at a 10% deficit to that to see how your body reacts. So 2000 calories a day. Ideally that would be mostly…

Favorite food is ribeye? Friend request sent....

simple answer: lift weights and add muscle. Muscle isn't flabby, it's solid, and will firm up your skin if you have more of it underneath that skin.

So my forearms are still a bit sore after our WOD of EMOTM 20 handstands then knee ups. Mainly from doing the handstands. They stretch my forearms a bit more than they are comfortable with. Going to do them more as I think it's the main thing limiting my rack position. Might as well get stronger while I'm stretching.

^that helps. But don't eliminate them alltogether. You gotta have some fun, too.

^what she said. You will adjust to it very quickly.

Sounds like it might just be your getting used the bar and building up callouses.

We post ours but I do not Cherry pick. I have an idea based on my week when I'm going to be there. This week was Monday, Wed, Friday, Saturday. No matter what the workout, I go on those days. I am going to start adding in some lifting days, so knowing the WOD can help avoid problems in that regard. The coaches will also…

Stick with crossfit, pay very strict attention to your diet. No matter how hard you work you can't outtrain eating too much. Agree with the comments above about carb cycling. More on CF days, much less on rest or low impact cardio days.

There is a "chivalry is dead" post a few pages back that could be used to extend things quite easily

I was going to reply, but I looked at your profile and would rather not get flagged for being excessively honest. Good luck to you.

I order it from puritan.com. No complaints so far.

I managed to not gain weight after a long weekend of drinking high ABV beer and lots of food. I'll take it!

20 minutes, EMOTM alternating. HSPU and T2B. I'll probably do wall walks and K2E. You pick the rep scheme. I'm thinking 4 wall walks, 8 K2E

Then I'll just stick with "that strikes me as excessive" :)

I got to 145 snatch, 195lbs on C&J and then the rest of it on deadlift. Most people should spend more than 1/3 or the time on deadlifts. Mine are behind as well but getting better. I failed on 345 which is a number I can get in a "normal" lifting workout. Felt my lower back rounding on the pull and dropped it immediately…

^That strikes me as being excessive, but I guess if they pull one out like that every few weeks it's not too bad.

I just take it in the morning. 4 1000mg gel caps

One other thing I've seen that I thought was a good idea. Get the box to where you want and then lay a PVC pipe or broom handle across the top. stand to the side of the box and try to jump OVER the PVC. If you kick it it will just go flying and you'll land fine. If you can do it you'll build confidence for doing them on…

Keep in mind as well: Grueling workouts equal muscle damage (in a good way.) Muscles will hold water to help repair the damage and get stronger.

Yeah funny how that happens when you forget how much weight is on the bar, huh?

^^bit of an over-reaction, IMO. Her question is a legitimate one. It caught me off guard because I've never seen anyone in my gym quit a WOD just because they were tired and felt like it. If you're feeling ill, sure? If you're injured or feel that an injury will result if you continue? Absolutely. I've done that myself.…

I'll add that us old guys need all the help we can get with reducing inflammation. I've found it very beneficial

Good one for us today. "Barbell Heaven" Starting with an empty 45/35 lb barbell, adding 10 lbs every minute: (beginners add 5lbs instead if necessary) Perform 1 Snatch per minute until no longer able, --then-- Perform 1 Clean & Jerk per minute until no longer able, --then-- Perform 1 Deadlift per minute until no longer…

^There have definitely been times where we had something that was like 5 burpees and five squats per minute for 15 minutes and I knew I was not going to be able to keep the pace. Told the coaches beforehand that I'd hold it as long as I could. They would say to pick a time (40 or 45 seconds) and if you can't finish by then…

That sounds more like a coaching problem than anything else. On the few occassions I had to stop a WOD (once for a cramp, once for a sore lower back) I hung around and cheered everyone else on. That sort of behavior isn't tolerated at our box, if someone did it they'd be told to be quiet by either an athlete or a coach.

Where are you headed, anywhere interesting?