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it gave me horrible gas. If you enjoy farts that last several seconds and smell like death this is the stuff for you. I took it while waiting for hernia surgery. My family went on vacation and asked me to stay at home.

check out the dark horse rowing channel on youtube tons and tons of good form videos where I learned. The resistance on the c2 machines is meant to keep you in a drag factor which is the resistance of water as I understand. as the flywheel fins become dirty the the drag factor goes down because of the less air resistance.…

OP its a good starting point. add to it when you get to 21k or 30k or way more thats progress and building strength/endurance and thats what counts.

First week progress back was as follows. Monday my initial weight on the squat was too high and I felt a little extra stretching from the 4th 5th set so I backed off a few days and Thursday came back even lighter starting my sqyat at 155 instead of 185. Completed my next 2 workouts just fine and am even over the severe leg…

thanks for the ideas everyone.

None of them. Its all just a guess. Any of them are probably close but none will be spot on no matter how much you want it to be. Just get the one that has the features you want notifications, workout tracking, messaging and take the fitness tracking calories with a grain of salt. I lift weights and burn more calories…

you sync the apple health app the MFP app for the watch is for fluid tracking or a quick calorie add.

I've tried a ton of apps and they all have tradeoffs The old paper notebook is hard to beat. I'm guessing a note app might do the same thing as that.

skip the cross training and do the long run. Chances are your gonna miss another day or 2 during the duration of this plan because most of us lack the perfectly scheduled life to make it happen.

When my alarm goes off at 4AM I get up and go like an adult and allow myself 0 excuses. Also make friends here an accountability buddy is a good thing.

Yes run outside in all weather conditions as much as you can it's much harder than the treadmill. I'm sure thousands of people have completed races without ever running outside but I couldn't be one of those. Its your first half follow a basic plan something like the runkeeper's finish a half marathon plan. basically 16…

I couldn't do something like PF simply because I take inspiration from people stronger, faster, or more fit than me. I have headphones in I don't care if you grunt, yel, or talk to yourself because I can't hear you.

they had to ban the use of Straava and other programs for some of the milatary because it was basically mapping out bases.

thanks everyone thats what I figured. she is actually still using the trap bar with the handles up simply to gain height as the bar itself weighs 75 pounds and until she gets to 165 she would be pulling from a deficit because of plate diameter.

Both Rogue fitness and Titan fitness make wall attached strips that look just like their rack posts you can use these to mount a landmine/ dip attachment and some other accessories. The easiest solution may be to have someone drill a hole in the base of your squat stand and attach a landmine with a pin so that you can…

I would also suggest stronglifts or starting strength. Once you have built some strength then you can branch out to other more advanced plans but these plans work very well on novice lifters.

When I was doing longer runs a few years back I read a couple articles about people using baby food yogurt smoothies in squeeze pouches. I wouldn't be a big fan of trying to chew cookies. When I ran a marathon I was given a pretzel and told that the salt and carbs would help. I tried and tried to chew it but there wasn't…

You can buy rolled rubber flooring from companies like Rogue fitness or Titan but the tractor supply mats are the way to go and they usually have them on sale around holiday weekends.

squat rack, flat bench, and barbell plate set.

looks like some built in running programs that would tell you when to run intervals or speed up slow down. Honestly any number of free apps would do this as good or better. They pair it with a subscription service to download other workouts from coaches or users like the old smart cards you used to plug into treadmills and…

backbeats fit and jaybird x3 are good. Gym headphones get their own special kind of funk to them and require cleaning investing in a water resistant set really helps with this.

this is a very complicated plan for a person who has been lifting for only a few weeks. How do you know your max numbers to base your percentages off of? What you could manage on day 1 will be a fraction of what you could do after 8-10 weeks of dedicated training. You are missing your newbie strength gains spinning your…

Short answer find a new box. After 1 week (assuming 3 1 hour classes) you have not mastered the olympic lifts enough to be allowed to throw around a lot of weight in a class situation. Look for a box that has some form of beginners program or has a good system for scaling your wod to something that is reasonable for you to…

The weight and reps with the trap bar are not out of the ordinary. Its positioned so that all the weight is centered on your body through the entire range of motion. Also most trap bars that I have seen have low and high handles and starting from the high handle position makes the lift much easier like pulling from blocks.…

you might be able to try a multi press barbell like a football bar or swiss bar. I would check youtube for beginner strongman stuff and how to videos.

I run and lift. Well I try but I am not particularly great at either. I'm always open to new friends.

bodybuilding.com equipment forum has some UK members that would give you great suggestions for quality stuff. Some of them can get pretty OCD though so if you go there beware. I still say power rack either full or half. I had a full rack but a much nicer half rack fell into my lap so I have that now. The footprint on the…

A rack and barbell needs about 10 feet side to side and anything over about 6 feet front to back. The olympic bar is 7ft long and space on either side to load it is important. The depth I mentioned is about the bare minimum of what you can comfortably bench in. I have a rack and bar bells in a 6.5x14 foot room and find it…

I want creepy FRs.

it's called conditioning. do your strength training first then your conditioning.