bostonwolf Member

I enjoy running but my left knee does not, so rowing is a good alternative. If I just want to do low impact and burn calories I jump on the elliptical. Do you guys have a pad or mat you can put on the box? Another good trick I saw is to put a PVC pipe on top of the box with maybe a towel on it to hold it in place and jump…

If loving ramen is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Good job man. Now come do some Crossfit and we'll put some muscle on you :)

Just made my donation to the Greg Glassman retirement fund. Yay Crossfit!

It's very tough. I calculate my calorie burn via total daily energy expenditure calculations (TDEE, google it for the calculators) and eat at a 20% deficit to that number and just count my workouts on here as 1 calorie burned. the workouts are far too varied to just create a "Crossfit" category and expect it to accurately…

Start against a wall if needed, or do them from your knees if you can. Pull ups and dips just forget about for now unless there is a machine in the gym that can assist. If there are rings you can do ring rows (google for video) or the same by setting a barbell low in a rack, hanging down from it and pulling yourself up.…

Unless you are willing to leave your house or willing to buy a treadmill, you already know the answer to you question. I live in Massachusetts and see people out walking and running every day, even the day after major storms. At some point you just need to commit to it and make it happen.

Agree. This is my year to make some permanent, positive changes in my body.

No offense, don't worry. If you have questions, ask them. We've all been there before when we started CF, and most of us had never done most of the movements before.

Finished Inquisition and just finished COD AW, will probably do some zombies and multiplayer on that for a bit, then Destiny.

I will do it on my second playthrough just to change up the cut scenes. I'm still not sure how the Mage ended up heading the Chantry in my first playthrough. Everything pointed towards Cassandra and I'd supported her and not Leiliana

Also I eat Paleo about 85% of the time. I just started on Eat To Perform which is roughly the same thing but ramps up carbs to fuel you on workout days.

Have your coaches do some measurements for you. Neck, biceps, chest, belly at the navel, hips, thighs. Then redo them every month or so. Even if you don't see the scale moving as much as you want, those numbers will likely change for the better. It's a good way to introduce a measure of sanity and stop relying on ONE…

That's the truth. I'm only down about 20 lbs total, but I'm guessing I've lost 30 lbs of fat and gained 10 lbs of muscle in 18 months. Turning my focus now to losing the gut, but I'm in no rush. Slow and steady wins the race.

And we're doing more rowing. 1000m, 800m, 600m, 400m, 200m. Trying to increase pace each time. 2-3 minutes rest between sessions.

It's just a mental habit. You need some time to reset the way you think about your body.

A good, thorough warm up usually helps alleviate DOMS for me. Not always, but usually. Also, make sure you do a cool-down if you raise your heart rate for a decent amount of time. If we do a particularly challenging workout I'll just walk around the gym while I recover my breath. Then I'll do some foam rolling and…

We did some warming up and with the WOD yesterday and my wrist is killing me today. I think I was dropping down a bit faster than I should have been.

Not a problem. I'll add, don't take this new number as gospel, it's an approximate calculation so you might have to fiddle with it a bit to get what works for you. My general theory is that most of us, barring hormone issues and the like, should not be constantly hungry. That just isn't sustainable. At some point you're…

I can do one, I just can't do multiple ones.

Bulking up would be almost impossible for a woman not taking testosterone supplements. If you see some of the advertising for fitness models and think "I want to look more like that" then lifting heavy weights is the best way to do it. You clothing will also fit better and look better. If you want to get tighter and not…

Chest to deck, then you should be jumping at the top. In some of the open workouts I've seen people set up rings above their heads and jump and clap inside the rings on every rep.

And you will likely be shocked at the number. Mine is something like 3700 calories, I usually strive to eat 3000, maybe less on a rest day.

1400 a day for a crossfitter is just not going to happen. Link here for some calculators. http://iifym.com/tdee-calculator/

^Same here. DUs frustrate the hell out of me, but I don't hate them.

^so I stopped using myWOD because I can't really figure out how I'm going to tell if I do better. seems like eveyrthing I enter is by hand, so I'm not sure how the statistics would get compared.

This is me to a T. If we are doing a partner WOD I kill it. Give me two minutes to recover as we switch off and I can go for a LONG time. Having to do my own work the whole time and maintaining my heartrate at a high level....no so much. For example the WOD last week where we I did 8 rounds of 6 K2E, 10 swings, 20 walking…

^ that is usually what limits you in the open. The first workout last year was DUs and cleans I believe. Even though I can only do one DU at a time I went ahead and did it. The later ones include the advanced movements but usually not first, so you can almost always put up some kind of score that isn't zero.

We did a half as a team of 3.... 21k or something like that? We did 1000m segments 7 times each.

Talked about it a bit on this thread. http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10026803/eat-to-perform-my-numbers#latest I just started and like it. I am ramping up to fully implementing it because we are doing a strict Paleo challenge at the gym meeting the carb requirements would mean eating more sweet potato and…