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I clip the weights to my climbing harness using a sling - girth hitch thru the central plate hole. You could pinch a dumbbell between your legs or put weights or water bottles in a back pack.

1) husband hid the scale now I can't weigh myself without wasting time to look for it. I couldn't accomplish this one on my own..daily weighing was becoming a habit but if the weight was low I would eat more and if the weight was high I would feel sad. Now water retention doesn't impact how I pursue my goals. 2) strength…

Week zero BW reps - 4 Week 1 workout 1: 10lbs, 4x1

Try hanging lat shrugs, very slow eccentrics and band assisted. The assisted pull up machine imho is pretty crap for getting to unassisted pull ups. As in slow.

I should start doing coffee during....

I do coffee before and coffee after ;)

My suggestion would be to mix up your walking. Baby in carrier, toddler in a stroller and go do some hill "sprints" i.e. find a super steep hill and walk up quickly for 5-10 reps. That just makes it a bit more intense and less boring and the toddler should find it fun too. I had childcare so I left my toddler and took the…

Congratulations, great effort, here's to you killing it right kinds of dead in two weeks!

Squats 3x5 95. I'm getting an unpleasant feeling in my hop flexors and tail tuck/ ant pelvic tilt at full depth so not adding Bench 3x5 80. Based on my plates at home next jump up would be 95. I think I'll have to stay here until i can get a lot more reps or do sets of singles haha! Or buy more small plates? I have a set…

When I'm in a deficit I'm hungry. Except for about the first hour in the morning and for the first hour after a meal. I go to bed hungry. When I eat at maintenance I'm not hungry. When I was in adeficit I had a 30p30f40c ratio and ate a ton of fibre and I was still hungry. I don't get this insistence that you can be in a…

I start with coffee, cycle to work (so fasted cardio right, bros?) start work at 7, eat "breakfast" if the coffee gives me gut rot around 9-10 otherwise I press on to lunch. When I'm working I'm in a captive environment so there is no food easily available. If I eat at 7 im forcing it, and hungry at 9-10 anyway so it just…

Hahahaha! I have orthostatic hypotension. I would love a higher blood pressure. But I have insufferable parents, childish children and lots of annoying colleagues. So therefore I skip breakfast most days.

Two days post deadlifts...I need all the foods. But what should I do...eat if I'm hungry (ie this is real hunger) or be hungry (Ie trust maintenance numbers and see the hunger as "false")? So far today: C268, F90, P157. Fiber 49g. About 2500. My tdee based on historical data and my *kitten* logging is 2200-2400. My logging…

Trying again...For some reason video upload seems to be not that intuitive...

I'm the one getting mid thoracic pain by mid squat set. Haven't video'ed myself before - comparing to people who know what the hell they are doing I think my problems include: holding the bar wrong (thanks too far apart), tucking my pelvis when deep (tight hammies?) and doing something funny with my bum out of the hole.…

Is it really that recomp takes a long time or that bulking and cutting offers more novelty? I could do a cut to get to 18-20%, that would take approx 2-3 months? Then a bulk and that would take about 8 months...then another cut say 3 months. Or I could train like a badass for a year and a half. Would the bulk and cut give…

What about decision paralysis? consistency and striving for progression is more important than whatever training plan given that there are so many reasonable training plans for beginners. I spent some time stalled and switching because I thought there was probably something better out there. Like failure to commit in…

Just to be devils advocate here...but what would happen if you put the scale away and just trained? You have healthy exercise habits. It sounds like you can keep your nutrition in control. What if you put the scale away and started tracking other things...like weight lifted, like running segment times etc? What would…

Thanks for the suggestions. I will try to pm you a video this week...assing side and back angles? Now thinking about what you said about arm/hand position and I think I should experiment with that a bit. Front squats result in less back pain than back squats...more deltoid pain tho so it's a bit of a pick your poison kind…

Mine are 1.5 and 3.5 and my husband and I enforce an early bedtime (7) and after that one of us would go the gym while the other did the housework (dishes, lunches, cleaning). We alternated. Then we bought some weight equip for the house and now we can work out together. I commute by bike for cardio. This only works tho…

I'm going to have to try that preemptive eating advice. The hunger is crazy - goes on all day if I lift in the am and all the next day if I lift in the pm.

Congratulations to your daughter. What an achievement!

Front squats 75# 3x5 Single arm dumbbell bench 35# 3x5 Hip thrusts 135# 3x10 Bw feet elevated TRX rows 3x10 Deads 135# 1x5 Weighted pull-ups BW+12.5 lbs 3x1 Turkish get ups 20# 1x3 Miscellaneous vanity muscle stuff

Did you have any thoughts about my t-spine issue (first pg of thread) if not just say I need a massage so I can tell hubs its "necessary."

@crabada thanks for the CTFO. That totally helped. And I lost 4 lbs overnight. So water.

I recommend some climbing gym time. It's fun and it improves grip. Serious climbers do hangs to failure and loaded hangs to improve static grip strength and things like finger boards and campus drills to improve dynamic grip strength. Static is what you need for weightlifting unless you are doing super fast circuit style…

Bogey should be "the OB" darn autocorrect

They don't cut the muscles during a cs. Bogey cut the fascia between the two halves of the rectus abdominus and retract them. They sew that back together. They do not cut any muscle fibres or into the muscle belly. Any pregnancy regardless of delivery method does a number on your core and requires a lot of rehab. The…

I had the same problem. I make a lot of decisions at work too. It took me about 2 months to find a way of eating that hit my calorie and macro goals and that I could sustain. And then I just repeat that....my meal structure and sources of protein and fat are repetitive and some would say boring. I tend to vary the fruit…

Have an amazing time! Just move daily and think of your gym training as training. Your legs will be strong for hiking with a pack and your arms will be strong for swimming in lakes etc. Also maintaining strength is not as hard as building strength and doesn't require as much stimulus. It sounds scary to have all your stuff…