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Help! Meeting With a Trainer: What Should I Focus On?
I have been following a professionally-designed progressive resistance program for almost 2 years. Each hour-ish workout (24 total) is a good mix of core lifts and accessories, interspersed with more metabolic type things. Some days are higher rep, some are low-rep strength days, some are AMRAP days, etc. I have been using…
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Thank You, NPR! "Resolved To Lose Weight? We Gave Food-Tracking Apps A Try"
After so many depressingly incorrect articles full of absolute silliness, it is SO NICE to see a news organization put out accurate, insightful, common-sense information on how to lose weight, for once, and it doesn't even involve ACV:…
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French Peasant's Guide to Dirt Cheap Gumbo & Other Veg
We have been discussing the prices of fresh fruit and veg on another thread where I mentioned I loved cooking Creole and French recipes: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10527034/wish-fresh-veggies-werent-so-expensive/p1 I was asked for some recipes, and figured I better start a new thread because I have a…
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Happy Fat Tuesday!! Special Dispensation to Eat Some Waffles!
I hereby give anyone who loves waffles special dispensation to eat a huge pile today! + Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow begins Lent. Waffles, pancakes, crepes, etc. are a traditional food item for Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday/Shrove Tuesday. According to the NY Times: "Pancakes, crepes, fritters, crullers and waffles,…
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Lifts for Long Teleconferences and Car Rides?
First, please accept my apologies, as I feel this is likely a really, really stupid question, but when I'm on a teleconference for a few hours or a long car ride, I just feel like I could jump out of my skin, now that exercise is an intrinsic part of my life. I am hoping to assuage that by keeping a couple of 10-lb dbs in…
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Best Alternatives for Cable Face Pulls and Cable Pull Throughs?
We don't have a cable machine at my workplace gym, and I certainly don't have one at home, so I have been trying to replicate the move with my 100-lb resistance band at home, and whatever lightweight resistance band I can scrounge up at the gym. Is this the best approach for these exercises, or can you recommend anything…
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On Gardening
I was getting ready to type a long comment about gardening on another thread with @GaleHawkins, but thought, it's such an important topic, it really deserves a thread of its own. Just to give a little background, I have been a gardener since the bug bit me in high school. It wasn't until I had kids that I started to see my…
