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Feh. I've put on weight since my mom passed and everything is tight now. It's such BS. Sigh. I'm tired of looking like I'm pregnant without actually having a kid in there to show for after all this time. I'm either going to give birth or take the belly fluff off another way. And since I'm not pregnant ... the fluff has to…
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Same. I don't eat exercise calories back, but have set my intake to a small number below TDEE. I create my own exercises.and assign them a value of 1 calorie. Much simpler that way. I know what my TDEE is, and as low as I'm coming in below it, I'm good to go because I know fat is going to disappear eventually. I'm not in a…
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I :heart: Hugh Jackman. He even lifts, bro. :drinker:
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I basically sacrificed another purchase I had set aside money for and bought some used barbell equipment instead and converted my garage into a gym. It's all about what's important to you and how serious you are. But I understand the money crunch, and if there's no room in the budget, then there's no room in the budget.…
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Love the book, and the program.
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Yep, looks about right to me.
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Oh ouch! Speedy recovery wishes your way!!!
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If you're in the US (which I assume you are since you mentioned D!cks Sporting Goods), I'd recommend the 2-inch plated Fastenal washers. 2 of those gives you roughly 1.25 lbs, and 4 gives you 2.5. I bought 6 just to be sure. Total was about $24. We happen to have a local Fastenal store, but you can order them online also.…
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Man, you guys are rocking the lifts!! Worked out on 6 hours or so of sleep so am amazed I got it all done as planned, after an early appointment no less. I'm quite thrilled at myself that I got on that elliptical and stuck with it, especially considering the long break I've had from it and the fact that the first time I…
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Squats are Rippetoe's solution for everything from hangnails to cancer ...
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Stretching is a debated topic. I personally do yoga before lifting (I have done yoga for years), but I know that others such as bumblebums have gotten hurt going that route and now shy away from it and rather stretch afterwards. There's certainly benefits and drawbacks to both approaches. Go with whatever works for you,…
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I do 1x5 as warm-up set(s) with the bar and then work my way up from there. You could probably cut that to 1x3 as you go up in weights and need more warm-up sets to get you to your working weight. For deadlifts I do 1 rep of anything. If weighted sets wear you out too much as warm-ups, then do body weight movements or get…
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We can be babies from time to time! It's fine! Just be flexible, cause there's nothing wrong with adapting a program to your personal needs. If your body is telling you to squat 3x5, then that's what you do. It's better to adjust some things rather than end up hating your workout. Being challenged is one thing; feeling…
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Go for the 3x5. I got burned out on squatting a while back and took a break from it. I can't even count the hundreds upon hundreds of squats I've done since the beginning of the year. Well no, I probably could count them because I track all my workouts, but ... why Nothankyou. So if you get burned out ... take a break, or…
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Depends on your body. You will probably find that once you do start lifting any serious weights, you're going to be ravenously hungry. If that doesn't happen, just go up slowly. Maybe add 100 calories every week or so. Handful of nuts here, some spoon-fulls of peanut butter there, some avocado over here ... you can easily…
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I'm going to go with "yes". Everything is supposed to be tightened when you lift, for every lift, the entire time you move that weight around. That's what stabilizes your body, supports the weights being moved about in space, and engages the musculature to do the work, rather than the skeletal system, ligaments, tendons…
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Aim for about 2000 (give or take) and you should be golden. 1600 is certainly too low if your TDEE is 2500. You're not going to sustain any progress in lifting by eating like a rabbit. You gotta eat to lift.
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Hey, those are my PRs! Day 2 of my new program (elliptical, yoga and Starting Strength), felt good, did well, glad I deloaded, and then floated round in the pool for a bit to chillax and bask in my accomplishment. Oorah! I even remembered to tighten my core for deadlifts, and my lower back isn't niggling me now like it…
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Amen. That's with any lift, really. Tighten up your core, butt and legs before you grab the bar, every time. That's your support system, so make sure it's solid.
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You won't be. I'm hardly ever sore anymore. Consider it a rite of passage, and welcome to lifting. :drinker:
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http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/strength-training/HQ01710
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I remember my first week of lifting. Everything.hurt.so.much. I just soldiered on and lifted anyway. It will get better. I still get sore when I mix things up and do stuff my body isn't used. to. It's fine to train when sore. It's not fine to train when hurt. Like it's been said, make sure you warm up and maybe think about…
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There. Fixed it for you. And by "heavy weightlifting" I don't necessarily mean "barbell training," but any sort of progressive resistance training you're going to find enjoying yourself and sticking with. Because the benefits really stack up to a ridiculous amount of awesome. Please don't deprive yourself of them.…
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Yea you can back squat without a rack for as long as you can rack the weight yourself (which means to pick it up off the floor and place it on your back). You may need to start lower and progress slower than the program has it laid out for you, but you're eventually going to adapt the program to suit your own progression…
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I've been squatting for 6 months and never been able to get past 90 pounds. Your squat weight is not measley. I'm hoping to squat triple digits sometime within the next month or two. I'm purposefully progressing slowly because I made up my mind when I started that I was going to take the scenic route and enjoy the journey…
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Yes, I understand how exhausting gathering information can be, to make sure all bases are covered. At some point you realize that there is no perfect anything and just get started on something. Since you have no squat rack that I can tell, you may wish to modify Stronglifts to include front squats rather than back squats…
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"The reason we bother with weights is so that we can throw them at men who ask us why we bother with weights." Neehoo, in a much better space today after I bit the bullet and made friends with our elliptical. Going to do that for the next 4 weeks because I have to crank up the cardio, and the complexes just weren't doing…
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I have a bunch of plates stacked under mine, but of course I work out in my garage so those plates stay there. You could try something like a step thing they use for step aerobics. You basically want to get close to mimicking the height of the bar that it would have if it had 45 lb plates on it. So basically a 45, 35, 25,…
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What a difference a year can make, eh? Good for you! :flowerforyou:
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Deltoids are part of your shoulder musculature, Zany. It's the very top, outer shoulder muscle. P.S. I love the OHP. I made up my mind a long time ago that I'm going to be super slow taking the weight up with that because I don't want to ever grow to hate it. It's such a fabulously beneficial lift; I don't want to deprive…
