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Joining the gym, any strength training advice?!
Hi, I'm joining a gym today and I'm particularly interested in starting strength training. Does anybody have a link to a decent training program? I have no idea where to start with this. Thanks in advance.
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Strength Training Advice
I've decided that I would like to incorporate more strength training in to my routine as I aspire to be strong and healthy rather than skinny! I've done bits and pieces (usually just using my own body weight / light hand weights as part of exercise dvds) but would like to start a more hardcore strength training routine.…
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Injury - advice please?!
I exercised every day last week and went out saturday night and danced for about 5 hours straight. Now the backs of my heels / bottom of ankles are quite painful, even when I'm just walking. I googled it and it looks like it's my achilles tendons. I haven't exercised since as I don't want to make them worse. Does anyone…
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lose 28lb on junk food diet??
An article I read today about a professor of nutrition who ate nothing but junk food for two months and lost 28lb through sticking to a calorie limit: http://uk.health.lifestyle.yahoo.net/eat-candy-lose-weight.htm It goes to show that the calorie counting method is a really effective way to lose weight. However, I think…
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Is my resting heart rate too low?
My resting heart rate is only 39 bpm, is this too low? I just read that between 60 - 100 is the average.
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Plateau... any advice?
After getting really good results to begin with my weight loss has slowed down over the past four weeks. I haven't lost ANYTHING in two weeks (I've weighed exactly 140.4lb every day), lost two pounds the week before but didn't lose an ounce for two weeks before then. It's strange but my weight loss only slowed when I…
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Too Tired To Train!
Hi everyone, I've only been part of MFP for two weeks, but have managed to lose 5 pounds through diet alone, my most successful diet ever :) Now I feel like I should be exercising as well as I don't actually have a massive amount of weight to lose, but I need some serious toning up. My problem is, I work at a hotel serving…
