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chalk !

does your treadmill have a dead mans switch - the little tab that stops the treadmill if it get pulled out - at least if she slips and falls the treadmill will stop ?

I use uncle bens and rather than cooking it I just leave it in the water for a few hours so it fully rehydrates - add a stock cube - warm in the microwave

some forms of exercise do not seem like it - I lost a ton of weight as a kid roller skating - I have no idea how much I was burning skating from a to b I do agree with others that suggest finding out what she likes to do - also find some powerful women athletes that are not stick figures for her to read up on - Holley…

:) always good to compete with yourself !!

Alternate healthy days and his food days - on healthy days cook 3 portions and put one in the fridge - on his food days - cook his food - and warm the food you made yesterday for yourself I cook all my food a week in advance and reheat it as needed

Hi Found the group today - I have been working with bells for several years now - a few weeks ago I was recruited onto a competition team and have my first event coming up I love kettlebells for strength and conditioning

Is she an adult ? .. yes ?? .. nuff said She is is own responsibility

I alternate weeks - heavy squats with dynamic dead lifts and then dynamic squats with heavy dead lifts - even then they are on different days. On saying that I am not huge fan of these programs that have you do a gazzillion exercises - I squat, dead and do some kind of push ( chest press/ push up / bench press ) , some…

Personally I find gloves very hard to use - they bunch up in other ways so they do not save your hands that much - and they change my grip - i MUCH prefer to use chalk - I have had some problems this past 2 weeks with my hands being REALLY torn up - literally - from high volume kettle bell work - I painted new skin on the…

My loss for the last 2 weeks was - 2 inches off my chest - 1.5 inches off my waist, 1 inch off my hips - which seems to imply I am not the same shape as you - I wasn't weighing myself initially - frankly I didn't want to know how bad it was - but I have been taking waist measurements for a while and that 1 - 1.5 inch drop…

sort of - I tend to cook in bulk and freeze / refrigerate so if I`m making chicken I weight it all in one go - lets say I have 1 lb - that is 4 portions for me - I`ll eyeball the split into 4 platters - maybe I`ll be a bit over one day or a bit under another - I figure it all comes out in the wash

At one point I had 3 trainers I was working with - I have always had 2 trainers for the most part - I was monogamous for about 18 months but I just picked up a second trainer again a few weeks who is coaching me for competing. The important thing - make sure both trainers are on board and don`t mind the arrangement -…

As of Sat 29th yes ! - I`ll be competing in my first kettle bell lifting competition in the long cycle snatch event

I have to get on the scale and check my BW but I think today I squatted 100% of my body weight - 5 reps ( 188 lb ) - full range of motion - not the half squats a lot of people do - I had the worse squat form for EVER - mostly because my long distance running was really tightening me up even with obsessive foam rolling. I…

I think the key is embracing the genes you have - I am never going to be tiny - but I can sure be a powerhouse - so I lift heavy - I`ve started high volume heavy kettle bell work - and I don`t care that I run at 5.5 mph. Make the best of yourself rather than trying to be something you are not designed for

I`ve been boxing with a trainer for several years and was lucky enough that a pro recommended these guys - http://gsboxing.com - their gloves are the same price five or take as Everlast but they last MUCH longer - Cheaper gloves tend to have less padding over the hand and use a plastic plate inside the glove as as…

Around that pace is what my trainer call NFL player running !! - he said if a coach tells a player to run laps they run at a pace where it actually becomes easier to run that walk - Once of the well know running coaches - Hal Higdon I think - wrote a great piece about the calorie burn at the cross over point - you can burn…

shrinking is shrinking - I have my goal pants that I actually managed to pull up all the way last week - ( forget buttoning them - that is not happened for a while - but at least I got them up over my *kitten* ! )

get it - serve yourself a reasonable but small portion - throw the rest in the trash - sit down eat enjoy ! ( in that order so once you are done with your portion you have no way to get more )

not leg but fractured my hip - a lot of seated rows - a lot of high rep low weight shoulder presses - resistance band chest presses etc hand bike machine I did strength train the good leg as best I could - there is some debate that if you work out one half of your body it will trigger the other to try and keep up - I…

I log 1200 per day but I don`t worry about the milk in my coffee to the few nuts or carrots I might have ( and by few I mean 5 or 6 max ). I also don`t worry about weighing food I go for the easy cup measures - it works for me - I may actually be eating more like 1300 - 1400 but I do not eat any exercise cals back - Once a…

I`ll answer the kettle bell training - seriously they make 5lb bells ?? the lightest I would start with is 8KG / 17.6 lbs but unless you are very weak or are using it for continuous drill over a person of 30 mins or more you`ll out grow that pretty fast - note I am assuming here you plan to use a kettle bell for…

My numbers - lifts deadlift - 221 5 sets of 5 squat 177 5 x 5 Haven`t done any bench presses in a while - it was hovering around 130lb last time I worked it I do a lot of heavy kettle bell work just because I like it - I can snatch a 53lb bell for 7 reps and clean and press a 60 - I can swing the 95lb bell My goals at the…

no - you can have someone else count them for you - that is basically what a lot of diet plans are - but I find the foods are never really what I want to eat - I rather track my calories and make room for the foods I like - Also by cutting calories to lose weight while still fitting in pizza here and there I can see that…

Everyone makes their own decision to do this - you are ready when you are ready and not a moment sooner. By "getting on top of her" about this - you are likely putting her off because if she is afraid of failing you are adding pressure.

eat less that you burn

when I first started going to the gym I would walk on the treadmill, use the stationary bike and the elliptical - start out with 10 mins on each if you are very new to being active and slowly build up to 20 mins on each - then you can start increasing the intensity - by that time you `ll be in a habit of going to gym you…

I make mini cookies so I can I have 1 or 2 cookies for 50 calories - you may be better off with the 100 calorie snack packs I love chips - so I have one serving of a baked chip each day - 120 calories - I eat burgers almost every day - I by Lauras low fat beef patties and low calorie bagels ( 100 calories ) I would suggest…

Why even stand and listen to people like that ? Walk away or just start making judgements on their unhealthy life style Personally I do not talk to most people about my training or eating habits unless they are people that have similar interests