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Home gyms- child safety
Sorry this is so long but I really have no idea how to child proof a home... So I'd like to set up a home gym with a power rack,bench, free weights, and maybe one cardio machine so hubs and I can work out at home and save time on gym commute/waits/costs. But I'm pregnant with our first kid and want to make sure the set up…
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Moving on from SL?
So I've been doing SL since October of last year and I am getting a little tired/bored of doing the same thing all the time. This is probably largely because I am no longer making gains every workout, or even every week. I think I'm been struggling with 60 and 65lbs on OHP since January. I should have probably switched to…
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Help a newb- stalling on lifts and maybe fat loss?
Hi! Thanks for the great info in this group- I've been lurking on here for a few weeks. I haven't been on a weight loss stall but I am stalled out on my weight lifting and I am not seeing any evidence of actual fat loss so I'm wondering if there is something I should tweak with my diet and/or my workout. Sorry this is so…
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Frozen foods
Do you weigh while still frozen or after it has been defrosted? I weigh while still frozen but noticed that my Tyson chicken breasts loses a lot of water while defrosting so the weight of the breasts frozen and defrosted could vary by quite a bit. Not sure if the nutrition label on the bag is with the excess liquid or not.
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How to develop stronger will power? Practical tips needed :D
I find it is relatively easy for me comply with my eating plan as long as I don't have have the food I am trying not to eat in the house. However, I have problems with willpower if the food is in front of me. While I can just not buy a box of cookies, I can't stop being social. I do dinner with my parents about once a eat…
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Favorite cardio to do with Stronglifts?
What kind of cardio do you ladies do with your lifting? The stairs are my favorite machine in the gym but I've been avoiding them for the past week or so to rest my legs for better squat performance. I did the elliptical today but found it was hard to really get my heart rate up without jacking up the resistance really…
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App purchase
I want to buy the $1.99 warmup sets on the app and I'm wondering if I should just do the whole pack thing for $10. Are the other things useful?
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How many calories do you think this is?
So like always, I'm going to a restaurant with no nutrition info. I'm planning on the either having: 1) 4 fried chicken wings with corn bread, collard greens, and pickled beets or sauteed spinach. The chicken wings are really big, probably the length of my hand. They are not battered but fried very crispy. Or, 2) Liver and…
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Getting weaker? What's going on?!
Since last Friday to today, I've gotten weaker on some of my lifts. I have been sleeping okay, taking it easy on cardio when my legs are tired and eating about 200 calories more per day since Monday so I really don't understand why my OHP and deadlifts are getting worse. Squats are just not progressing which is not as…
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Taco meats
I'll be going to my favorite hole in the wall taco place for dinner tomorrow and was wondering if any type of taco meat is a lot worse calorie wise than others. I generally get lengua, al pastor, carne asada and carnitas. They all taste great to me so if any of these is more of a calorie bomb than others, I won't get that…
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How much protein should I be eating?
At about 160lbs, I'm currently averaging about 90-110 grams a day on a 1350 diet during weekdays (not easy-I'm eating a lot of egg whites and chicken breast). I'm not sure about my protein on weekends since I get most of my calories eating out or at other people's houses. I do eat a lot more carbs/fat than I typically do…
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Training Partners?
Do you guys lift alone or have a partner? I think it would be awesome to have a partner or at least a spotter when the weights get too heavy to really push myself. But I'm not sure how to go about finding one. I get to the gym around my work at 6 or 6:30 in the morning so there is no way to convince friends to go with me.…
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Weight progression
When I started this last week, I thought the starting weights were manageable for everything besides the rows which I started at a lower weight than what the Stronglifts App said to do. However, I am finding the weight is now too much for me after just adding 5lbs for the overhead press and the bench press so I worked with…
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I have a hand blister???
I think I got a blister on my palm today right below the ring finger. The spot looks white on top, very raised, and hurts when I touch it. and Under all the other fingers, I just have a spot that's a little red and a little raised like they are forming callouses. I didn't know you could I do have kind of fatty hands so…
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Stronglifts and chin up/ pull up
I just started the Stronglifts program this week (did my first workout B today) and my plan is to do Stronglifts and half my normal cardio work out on lifting days and normal cardio workout on non-lifting days with a day of rest on the weekend where I just do something outdoors like tennis or Frisbee in the park. If I get…
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Weighing EVERYTHING
From reading some other threads, it seems people (geniusgamer being the latest) get beat up on here for not weighing EVERYTHING. In his post, geniusgamer said he eats prepacked frozen meals and logs his calories based on the nutrition info on the package. Some posters suggested that his lack of weight loss was due to not…
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How to start lifting
So far I am only doing Body Pump classes which are high rep/low weights that everyone says is useless. I want to get into lifting heavier free weights but feeling too intimated by unfamiliar equipment in a busy gym. I'd like to do a simple program like Stronglifts 5x5 and have watched the videos of the founder doing the…
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How do you log food when eating out?
With all the weighing and measuring of everything I eat at home, I get sort of crazy about having to guessitmate whenever I eat out. I normally eat at non-chain restaurants that do not have nutritional/calorie information available. Life does not stop when I am trying to lose weight so as much as I try to eat healthy foods…
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Exercise calorie count
Are most calories burned estimates for any particular exercise, the calories burned in addition to your normal resting calories burned or just the total number of calories you burned while doing that activity? Ex: if you burn 50 calories just being alive for an hour and a calculator told you burn 110 calories per hour…
