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Hey everyone! Just checking in, my past two workouts have not been great... Today was workout B: Squats 60 5x5 OHP 60 3x5 and 55 2x5. I had to drop down on the last two sets because my arms felt like jello. I was seriously disappointed. Dead lift 140 1x5. I thought my squat form was getting better but my right hip flexor…

Hey everyone! Daisybee, don't be embarrassed, those are awesome numbers!!! Workout B today, which felt great!! Squats 55 5x5. These felt so much better with the vibrams and going way lower. Still bits of form stuff to fix and I may upload a video (if I figure out how to do this to get you all to check my form, if you don't…

Hey everyone! Those are some fantastic numbers!! I did workout A last night with my mom and there was a VERY chatty guy at the gym who worked in with us because he was also doing stronglifts, it was strange. And he got annoying very fast... Squats 55 5x5. Bench 70 5x5. Rows 50 5x5. My mom and I watched some videos of women…

These are awesome, although some seem crazy advanced!! But thank you everyone!

The planks sound like a place I could start for sure!

Thank you everyone!! I'm just leaving work right now, so when I get home, I'm going to read through these more thoroughly and google some of these exercises. My knowledge of this stuff is very limited :S. Workout A is tonight and I'm trying not to get too worked up over the squats :S

Hey everyone! Yesterday as workout B for me: Squats 50 5x5. Still not confident in my form, the more I read and more videos I watch, the more confused I get. I'm getting pretty frustrated and down about the whole thing. OHP 55 55554. This was the second time at 55, but it's been taking me at least two workouts for each…

Hey ladies! I did a brief scan of this thread and it sounds like everyone is doing fantastic! I did workout B today: Squats 50 5x5. I'm slowly working my way up again, but my right hip flexor is still not liking this. I think it's because I'm compensating my weaker left leg. So now I need to be aware of that along with…

Hey everyone! I did workout B today. Squats 45 5x5. I deloaded to work on form and try to alleviate the pain in my hip flexor. It still hurt, but was better. My squat form still isn't right. Whenever I try to really "sit back" I lose my balance. I'm getting frustrated, but I'll keep trying. OHP 50 5x5. This is the third…

Thank you! I really needed to hear that. I haven't been back to the gym yet, but I plan on going tomorrow to do workout B. I'm going to re-look at squat form before I go and see how it is with just the bar. But I'll know fairly quickly if my hips need more of a rest. I know it sounds silly, but I'm afraid that if I take a…

Thanks Dani and jstout! I really should have done the 3x5s, I'll know for next time, so that's good. I have been doing warm sets of 2x3s, starting with the bar and going up by 5s until I get to my 5x5 weight. But I may just start again with the bar and work my way up, beside the pain is pretty bad. I'll have to see how my…

Hi everyone! I did workout A this morning. And it was the first one I did by myself. But my gym opens at 8 and I had to be at work by 9:45, so I was a bit pressed for time and I think my form suffered. So I'm really not feeling good about it :sad: Squats 65 5x5, but form still isn't right. I narrowed my stance a bit…

Thanks jstout! I'll really try to do that tomorrow morning. I'll see how it goes...

Wow! Everyone is doing awesome! I did workout B last night: Squats 5x5 65 lbs, but my form still doesn't feel quite right. I don't know if I'm going low enough or using my hamstrings etc. Also, there was a lot of pain on the front of my hip. Does anyone know what that is from or how I can fix it?? OHP 5x5 at 50 lbs. It was…

Thank you for the responses! neandermagnon, I'll definitely try a wider stance, but I feel like my stance is pretty wide. So I'm not sure.... bumblebums, I'm fairly certain I'm doing low bar squats, but I could be wrong. I don't have Starting Strength yet, so I'm just going off what I've read on the internet. Thanks…

I don't have a video! I don't even know how I would do that, sorry!!

Hi everyone!! Thank you for your responses!! I am definitely trying to maintain good form and keeping balanced when I'm doing all the strong lift moves. I do think it has gotten better, but I'm progressing very slowly (ie I've been at 60 lbs for squats for three workouts). My mom is spotting me and she lets me know if I'm…

It'll go great! Good luck!! I've found it easier each time to go and it becomes less scary and intimidating!!

Wow, good job ladies!! fisherlassie, you are definitely on BA parent! I wish my parents had been a bit more like that when I was growing up. I did my third workout B this morning: Squats 60 5x5, I kept them the same as the previous workout, but they were really hard. I could barely finish my last set. So I'm thinking I may…

Haha, there's too much to read right now and I'm at work, but I thought I'd check in. Tomorrow night is my third workout A (I think I'll be doing 60 lbs on squats, and 50 or 55 on bench press and barbell row) and fifth in total. I'm still only doing them twice a week, but I think that I'm really going to try and convince…

I definitely understand that doing just two days a week will get me slower results. I figure once my mom and I have a routine down and I'm not training for the 10 k, I'll try to add the third day in somewhere!

Thank you all for your support!! It really does make me feel better. With the way our schedules are right now, my mom and I are planning only to do this twice a week. Will we still see results, or do you think we should really try to find a time to get that third session in?? Thanks again!!!

Hi everyone!! My mom and I started tonight!!! It was so much harder than I was expecting, but I'm really glad I went. I know my form wasn't quite right... But I'll keep working on it :)

Hey everyone, My mom and I were supposed to start tonight, but we didn't because we were both so anxious. So we managed to talk each other out of it, as opposed to in to it. So I'm feeling pretty disappointed in myself right now... But thank you for all of your responses!

Thank you both for your input! I just need to remember that I am paying just as much as everyone else and I have right to be there, like you said, ladyjoie. I know the gym I'll be going to is pretty small, so I'm worried about the weight area getting pretty crowded also! I'll see how that goes though... If I was still in…

Okay, thank you! I'm a little anxious about the whole thing and will probably re-watch the videos and read through the tips before I go!

When I start (which I think will be this thursday), I'll definitely have to see if the "pretty" people are checking themselves out in the mirror, that sounds hilarious! As for proper form, is this something that you pick up as you go along? I've looked at some of the videos and read through the proper form tips, but I'm…

Thanks everyone! I think I've managed to talk my mom (as I currently live with her) into joining me for a little while, so that will make me feel better and make the gym a little less intimidating. We decided that we are going to start in a couple of weeks, but now that I've talked to her about it and looked at more…

Hi! Thank you both for your input. I've watched some of the videos and I don't know whether to feel more or less intimidated... As for calories, I'm tracking with myfitnesspal, I'm not really measuring stuff, mostly eyeballing it... I calculated that by looking up my TDEE on a few different websites and I took about 20%…

bump for reading later! I'm thinking about starting this strength training program