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Front Squat Push Press (Stages 2 & 4)
I'm finishing Stage 2 tomorrow, so it'll be a few weeks before I have to decide, but has anyone who's done Stage 2 (or 4) skipped the FSPP's, and do back squats & dumbbell shoulder press instead? I stayed with FSPP for all of stage 2, and it was only in workout A4 that I thought I might be finally getting the hang of it,…
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Do you plank?
If you do, what's your favorite variation? And what's your PR for a classic plank (on elbows & toes)? What's your goal (or next goal) to hold a classic plank?
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Newbie questions
Hi girls, I'm new to SL5x5, and have a few questions on my mind: 1. Is 2 days/week enough? I had been lifting 3x/week with NROLFW, but since I'm still obese @ 184 lb. (5'5" tall), I thought I might change things up and do cardio (mostly treadmill & elliptical) 3x/week and try lifting 2x/week. Do you that that can be…
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What a difference 7 lb. can make!
Last Monday, I accomplished something I would have never dreamed of a year ago. Or 2 years ago, or 10 years ago. I finished all 7 stages of a weight lifting plan, designed for women to learn how to lift heavy weights. Before April of this year, my heaviest dumbbell was a lime-green 5 lb. set. I didn't know the difference…
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I finished!!!
I'm still not sure what lifting I'll do next, but NROLFW has got me hooked on weights. I could go on & on how much I love this program, and might even run through it again, but they say a picture's worth a thousand words, so here's a picture. Two pictures if you want to get technical, but I put them into a single image for…
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Total Weight Moved (daily?)
Hi, One of the ladies in the FB group for NROLFW gave me this idea, and I wonder if anyone else here does it? What you do is for every workout, multiply (sets) x (reps) x (weight used) to come up with the total amount of weight you moved/lifted in that workout. I love it, and thought it would be fun to use here. If the…
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Your favorites (& least-favorites)
Just for fun & curiosity, what are your 3-5 top favorite lifts in this program? And your 3-5 least favorites? *Please say what stage you're in too. Because favorites/least favorites might change over time. :happy:
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It happened again. :(
I just finished Stage 1 (including AMRAPs), but this morning (before my workout) when I used the body fat analyzer, it read HIGHER than last month. For the 2nd month in a row. When I first started working out in March, I did 100% cardio, so when it went from 35.8% --> 38.6% I thought maybe I had just burned too much muscle…
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Question for guys: What would you call it?
If you lift weights and wanted to list it as a hobby for a "match the person with their hobby" game at your workplace, would you call it: A. Weight Lifting B. Heavy Lifting C. Heavy Weight Lifting D. Strength Training E. Other (please specify) I've been asked to identify a hobby for a game like this at work, and after…
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Lou Schuler on Women's fear of getting bulky
Not sure if the link to Mr. Schuler's blog is on the main page for this group, but I thought this was a good read: http://www.louschuler.com/blog/im-still-waiting-to-get-too-big/
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pushup question
So I started stage 4 today, and my pushups are STILL hard on the 6th peg from the floor on the Smith machine. I know with time, I'll be able to do them on the floor EVENTUALLY, but for anyone who's finished NROLFW, I'm curious: If you couldn't do pushups on the floor before you started, could you do them on the floor after…
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Nutrients to track?
Hi, I've got borderline high cholesterol which was 202 in February (when I weighed approx. 197 lb.), so my Dr. advised "lose weight & start exercising." I did that, and when it was re-checked last week, despite having worked out approx. 5x/week for 60-90 minutes and lost 12 lb. on his scale (weighed 183, fully dressed,…
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Exercise & Reducing Cholesterol?
Hi, I'm curious if anyone here has successfully reduced their cholesterol (total or LDL "bad" cholesterol) mainly through adding exercise, with minimal diet changes? Or have you increased your HDL ("good") cholesterol by adding exercise to your life? In February, at a weight of approx. 197 lb., my cholesterol was 202…
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Rest Week between Stages?
I have a few questions about taking a week off (at least from lifting) between stages: 1. What's the intended purpose of it? 2. Did you take a week off between stages, or just go straight from one into the next? 3. Do you think it would be terribly counter-productive to do moderate cardio 5-6 days during that week? *I…
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Self-Confidence. One of the reasons I'm loving NROL4W!
I wrote this in a note to a new NROL4W friend for a compliment she gave me in my newsfeed this morning, but I wanted to share this part here, because it came as such a surprise to me to find myself writing these things. I started NROL4W less than a month ago (April 16), and it's like I'm in a dream to even think about the…
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Question about squats
I think I pinched something in my right leg doing my squats this morning (Stage 1, Workout A4). It's real high at the top of my leg, near my hip, and it hurts only on one leg, and mostly when I'm climbing stairs. Has that happened to anyone else? I mentioned it to my husband, who's lifted weights for years, and he thinks…
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Body Fat % Measuring
I see some talk about body fat % on the chat thread and in the 10-week challenge thread, so I figured I'd start another one to ask my questions about it: 1. What do you use to measure it? I know there are 3 basic ways: immersion (water displacement), scales & hand-held monitors, and calipers. Which one do you use, and do…
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Started today!
I put this in my blog, but I thought I'd share it here too, and ask for feedback/tips. I did better than I thought with some of the moves, but far worse with others. Here's the run-down: Squats. I did the warmup set of 8 with just my body weight, which was OK, but not very strenuous. I did the 2 sets of 15 with just the 45…
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NROL4W and weight loss?
I hope this isn't a dumb newbie question (or one that's already answered somewhere else), but all the results posts/threads I've seen here since I joined seem like women are losing inches, but not usually losing weight, which worries me because I medically NEED to lose weight. I WANT to be stronger & smaller, too, which is…
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Need gym advice
Hi, I've been a member here a while, but haven't been able to make exercise a daily part of my life yet. I take a dance class once/week for an hour (tap & jazz), but decided to try a gym membership, because getting up to do TV workouts just wasn't happening. Plus, I joined a pedometer contest @ work for the month of May,…
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When you started?
Hi, I'm planning to start Stage 1 on Monday, and I'm feeling a mix of excitement to try it, and nerves/anxiety that I'll make a complete *kitten* of myself or not be able to do a lot of the moves (ex: I 100% know I cannot do a full standard pushup right now. Even one, so I'll have to modify, but I have no idea how long it…
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Pedometer???
I joined a pedometer challenge for the month of May at work, so for that month, I'll wear a pedometer, and compete for a prize for whoever takes the most steps. It's been awhile since I wore one, but I never used it to count any activity other than walking. Does anyone know whether it will count steps if I wear it while…
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How open are you about your weight?
Just a few questions: How many of your MFP friends are people you know IRL? Do you show your weight in your ticker or your profile? Here's my dilemma: I have a friend IRL who I don't want to know my weight. When my friend joined MFP, I changed my ticker from weight to pounds lost (and removed my weight from my profile). I…
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MFP Mobile issues?
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this question. I usually log on the computer, but just got an iPhone, so I've been logging there more recently, and when I first started using it, I LOVED the barcode scanner. Yesterday & today though, I've been noticing that the calories are wrong for some things. Like I scanned…
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belly flab & cardio?
My "spare tire" is my problem area, both upper & lower abs especially, and when I've exercised, I've typically done low-impact cardio and/or strength circuits. I tried a high-impact cardio routine today, and was horrified at the extent to which my belly jiggles doing jumping jacks, running in place, jump squats, or other…
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Yoga on Exercise TV?
I'm on Day 16 of Chris Freytag's 30-day schedule for the 10 lb. slimdown series, but I have a hard time keeping up with her Vinyasa sequences (downward dog to chatarunga, then cobra, then back to downward dog) in her Yoga workout, which I've done twice now. Exercise TV also removed her Upper Body workout on me, so I had to…
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Side plank - can it be modified?
For reference, I'm a beginner when it comes to exercise. In my whole adult life, I've never done any activity more than 1-2 months, and I've never done any circuit training or other strength-building routine that long. So I decided to tackle the 10 Pound Slimdown on Exercise TV, and I committed to completing the whole…
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What would you order at this restaurant?
I'm going here Saturday with a group of friends, and have no idea what I might order to stay around 1400-1700 calories for the day (depending on exercise). From this menu: http://almanovehingham.com/dinner.html What would you order?
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Achilles pain - acupuncture?
Hi, I don't post much on the boards, but I would like to hear about anyone's experiences with acupuncture for achilles pain? I am not a big fan of exercise, but earlier this year, I tried running, and LOVED it. Until my right achilles started hurting EVERY morning, and sometimes during the day. After weeks of resting it,…
