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Thank you! I put these (and ones from my starting point last year) in a little group on Fitocracy and someone share them on the main timeline to 21000 people :O I've had lots of encouraging comments though :)

Which program you are running? Advanced Gluteal Goddess Where you are in your current program? Week 10ish How long you have been doing strong curves? Since January 1st If you are bulking/cutting/maintaining. Cutting. Well, I'm just on a mission to lose weight really! I'm still overweight even though I've lost 30lb so far,…

Auby - You're meant to go all he way down for normal deadlifts, but not Romanian ones. I find the pictures confusing too so tend to youtube things I'm unsure of.

Hey lovelies! It sounds like everyone is doing well :) I'm back at the gym as much as I can be, albeit with heavily modified workouts. Lots of single-leg hip thrusts with a 10kg medicine ball balanced on my pelvis! I read up about training while injured on one side and it can help to prevent strength loss on the injured…

Weighted vests are a great suggestion, thank you!

Hello ladies! Sorry for my absence recently. On Monday I shattered my wrist very badly so I've been sulking around the house! Operation on Friday and then six weeks in plaster, physio after that. Just this week I managed negative pull-ups for the first time and got my one arm rows up to 20kg, and now I can't do anything.…

Hi there mpeery8! I just use the benches in the gym. They are all an inch or two too high so I use my hands to lift my self up to the right height and then stay propped on it for the duration of the set. I'm not sure that makes sense in writing, but I'm not sure how to explain it better! On that note, I have a constant…

Kellie Davis has a video on Youtube somewhere about bar positioning which I found helpful. The gist is that there's a dip between your pubic bone and your hip bones, and you can hold the bar in there throughout the movement with your arms. It's not hard to do and helps a lot. HTH.

GIGIbeans, your post made me chuckle so much :D I couldn't weigh myself at my normal time of day yet this week so will have to wait til Tuesday to see how that's going. Been at a good deficit this week so I'm hopeful it will be good news. I am also really liking this programme. I was just going about the gym doing my own…

JamaicanLady - Congrats on nearly being out of the overweight category! I am so looking forward to that moment, though it's a long way off. And well done on those DLs! 110lbs is no joke and is roughly where my grip is starting to go too. Not sure what DLs there are in the 5-8 week section, but I'm hoping it's full ones for…

Just dropping in quickly to say hi! There are loads of posts and I don't have time to answer them all (must go to bed!) but it seems like you are all kicking *kitten* :D Hip thrust made it to 55 kg (just over 120lb) today. Feeling rather pleased with myself :D GIGIbeans, I do HIIT circuits once a week if I can get to a…

Hi Jessie, welcome to the thread! Glad to hear you had good results :D GIGIbeans - in the beginning I was sticking a dumb bell or kettlebell on there. As long as it's relatively comfy and will stay on, use whatever works. Now that you've managed 90lb, get some weight on that bar! Dafoots - Again, it's whatever works best…

Two weeks down. Awesome! Good luck at your party. It's really hard to resist stuff (and I'm certainly no good at it) but don't be too strict on yourself if it means you don't have a good time. We have to be able to be sociable too!

Thanks for the link. Gigibeans, I'll check it out. I saw a Kellie Davis video with some tips and that has helped a lot. I think that once I'm up to 60kg (so have a 20kg plate on each end) it will be fine getting in and out and I can start supersetting. Looking forward to that! I like your step idea, Jamaicanlady. Alas it…

Alas I'm struggling to do the supersets. For each and every workout the equipment/space I would require are at quite different places in the gym. I also find getting in and out of the position for hip thrusts very time consuming and ungainly, so once I'm under that bar I stay under until I'm done! When I can hip thrust…

I have been into lifting for a few months so still a beginner, but I love it! I would love to think I eat clean but really don't. It's slowly improving though! Feel free to friend me if you want to :)

In the best possible way, you would not even know that that was the same person! You look ten years younger. Fantastic work :D

Jamaicanlady - I hope your gym opens soon! Well done on kicking *kitten* at the bodyweight stuff in the meantime :D dafoots - Thanks for posting your workout! It was a really interesting read. I did do an advanced today and that was much more like it! I was really pushed for time though and didn't get it all done. Next…

Hmmm, I did Workout B from the beginners programme yesterday and even with added weight on things that weight could be added on, it wasn't all that challenging. Well, not as challenging as my recent self-designed workouts have been. I'm wondering if I should switch to advanced and just do earlier progressions of the things…

Good point. I guess it doesn't matter too much if I'm adding weight earlier on as long as my form is fine. When I get to the advanced bit I can just add even more :D Great to hear that you can really feel it in your glutes! I'm looking forward to having a nice behind too!

Hello! I'm new to MFP and Strong Curves. I started the beginner's programme today with workout A but added weight to a lot of stuff that I have previously been using weight on (squats, glute bridges, hip abductions). I feel like I could attempt the advanced programme in some aspects but not the pull-ups or push-ups, so I'm…