DoctorKyrina Member

I started on Monday. I'm very happy about it. I admit I'm not used to doing so many reps, but I do like it. (I had done Starting Strength for a few months last year. 2x15 is much different than 3x5!) I have a series of worksheets with my workouts printed and bound into a folder. It's all very exciting and I look forward to…

I have to admit that while I mostly glanced at the Starting Strength book, I also endd up preferring it over New Rules of Lifting for Women because I liked not being all over the gym. The weight area where I workout gets busy and it's nice to be able to just claim an Olympic bar and keep using it for my full workout.…

It's more cardio with light weights. Some of it has strength building aspects, but I wouldn't call it strength training.

You will honestly probably dislike book 5 if you miss things in book 4 because there are too many unknown characters. It moves more quickly than 4, but it has a lot of POV characters. A Feast for Crows has 13 POV characters, and A Dance with Dragons has 18. I honestly suggest rereading AFFC, especially if you've been…

I'll add you. I'm relatively new to lifting, but I love the idea of having more lifting friends :) (I eat 2050 and 2330 calories per day... total - not net. I really recommend following the formula in the book)

I do know it's scary at first. Even after my first few weeks I still sometimes find it intimidating. I've also found it so freeing. I'm still lazy by nature, but I don't dread my workouts the same way I did when I was doing more cardio.

I'm focusing on gaining muscle. My thinking is it'll help me lose the fat, and a lot of what I've read agrees (this isn't true for all things but it's how I've liked it)

The idea of the fourth book is that it really only covers so many areas. Book 4 is King's Landing, Dorne, the Eerie and all of the politics around there (and maybe some odd outliers) but doesn't cover anywhere else in detail. It was frustrating when a lot of characters are introduced and I honestly found it a bit slow.…

I love night exercising. I'm generally night oriented and I like how quiet my gym is at night. The only reason I ever workout not at night is because I've agreed to exercise with some friends and they don't like to work out that late. So, it depends on when you feel energetic.

While I'm in this group, I'm doing Starting Strength right now (I started it before getting the book and it seemed silly to switch 2 weeks after starting one program), but in my last workout I squatted 42.5kg (~94lbs) in 3 sets of 5 and I deadlifted 55kgs (~121lbs) in one set of 5. I'm working my way up :) I'm 5'6" and…

The book recommendations and MFP's food recommendations end up drastically different for me, and I've opted to go with the book. How much different? The difference between 1440 calories (admittedly net) and 2050 calories on non-lifting days. Considering I'm not exercising 600 calories on non-workout days, it's a different…

Mine is both good and bad in that they only have a power station (no squat rack) so the only place to get an Olympic bar at all is the same place for squats. I hadn't realised this wasn't normal.

It's really bad in my gym. In the month I've been a member I noticed the signs at the gym actually switched to refer to how bad it was. When I first joined, they threatened that if you didn't put the weights away they'd need to occasionally close the area down for cleaning. That idea apparently wasn't enough. Now they have…

I'm doing Starting Strength for the actual exercises for now. but I have read New Rules and am eating based on the food rules. It's only been about a week, but the weight has been going well (I'm eating 2050-2300). I was't doing the improved eating when I first started heavy lifting and I noticed that my strength gains…

I want to be able to do it all. I need to lose fat, gain muscle, and get stronger. It's a rough balance, but I'm loving my progress in strength training. It's nice to see my increased numbers there. It's easier to affect that than the rest of the numbers, and it's helping with my other goals.

1. Stop being impatient. There's no need to bump your own things twice in two days. :P This group isn't exactly so busy as to not have something from 2 days ago be in the top few posts. 2. GOMAD seems to be for very serious weight gain. The site I was reading was suggesting it would get up to 25lbs in a month. I've…

I suggest high weight and low reps. It takes less time, is more fulfilling, and will lead to better results. I've actually been hooked on strength training since I did that. I'm not entirely on the eating plan part of it (I'm doing the diet from New Rules of Lifting for Women for the diet) but I'm otherwise doing Starting…

I'm only a few weeks into strength training and will also recommend Starting Strength. I haven't read the book (it mostly seems to be dedicated to how to do each move in detail... a process I'd rather do a bit with in person guidance and trial and error). I go into the gym with my notebook with how many sets of each…

I'm not exactly an expert, but the reason I had read for every other day is to let your muscles recover a bit. I'd recommend it, as I do notice I can't do as well in an individual workout if I don't have a day (or two if I overdo it) between reworking a muscle. You can rotate upper/lower and do immediate days, but I…

I admit I found them practical at some point. I needed to have my hair pulled back for a job, and it was just at that point where it was a pain to pull back in a ponytail (it kept falling out)

I check teemagnet.com every day. They keep track of a few of the major daily t-shirt sites :D

I actually have issues with a few of my friends. I have my flatmate who seems to wish to eat better with me, but then drifts from it (or complains when I don't give her 'enough' food). She's tried all sorts of things and gives me the evil eye when I lose weight. She then politely requests (or demands) sweet foods and…

I started off as a very scrawny and active child, but gained a lot of weight when I hit puberty and then more in my 20s. I had lot some of it, and regained it before I decided I was actually going to get to my weight goal for once as of last year. I admit I've had setbacks but it's so nice to be so close. I see my joining…

I may open up the weigh in times a bit. They'll definitely end on the Monday or Tuesday. I won't stop early weigh ins (and you can maybe check in on the Thursday the 26th of April as well)

I like that idea. I based the idea off of another challenge I'm doing, but I'll certainly make it more about the different activities and less about the weight :) Good luck with those last 6lbs!

I'm neither not that heavy nor that skinny, and I have a good friend who seems to behave like I'm going to waste away if I get within a healthy weight range. I'm pretty sure she'll start trying to force feed me if I opt to try to get further into the healthy range instead of the absolute top of where I'd be to have a…

I think they may drag it out longer. Or maybe I just want to see how much Renly/Loras they can fit in... or to see if it gets warped enough to be Renly/Loras/Margaery. I'm a twisted person and should be ashamed.

I actually found them at Waitrose.

I managed to go from a 36F to a 32FF after losing almost 25lbs or so. I'm sure they're probably smaller, but disproportionally less small. It's nice, but it made my bra options more limited.

That combo (minus the tea... although I do love iced tea) are the reason I miss Wendy's. It's a shame that of all of the fast food places also in the UK, they managed to miss the one I'd really like to be here.