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Question: Do you wipe down Barbells at the gym?
....I currently do this, but I started thinking about the bars being damp and someone dropping the weight and hurting themselves. However reading all the posts about people not re-racking their weights and how it is just gym etiquette had me wondering about wiping them down too. I find it interesting because it isn't like…
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I saw it--Life!--Spring is almost here!
For those of you who are like me and get sad during the winter, I saw crocuses this morning! I eat and I am lazy when I am sad. Seeing those little green heads pushing out of the dirt was the push I needed. It has been a very depressing winter on the East Coast, so I am really looking forward to spring. The warmer weather…
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Trying to get off to the right start
Hello, I just found this group and I love the abundance of information. However I think my brain hit overload and fried. I just want a quick glance at my general plan and to be told if I'm on a decent course or not. I appreciate your time and understand that you are very busy so thank you for taking a look. Basically, I…
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I have 10 egg yolks in my freezer...what can i do with them?
I made a cake, and I screwed it up. So I made it again. I now have 10 egg yolks. What can i do with them?
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Tracking calories burned from weightlifting
Yesterday about halfway through my weight lifting I was doing lateral raises and the cushion on the arm brace managed to turn on my HRM. I decided to see "how many calories I burned" and was truly shock at the end of it that it had said I had burned 220 calories in 30 mins, and I had been lifting for about 50 mins in…
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What did you sacrifice to get your workouts in?
For me I sacrificed television. There are a lot of great shows out there, but with my schedule of work, class, and then homework, the only thing I could do was trade the hour or two I got for me time from TV to Gym. So far I don't feel like I have missed out on anything (I can catch up with my favs, like White Collar, on…
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Starving (poor) college student diet?
Hello, I'm an off and on again poster, and I am terrible about keeping up on my diary. However, renewing the effort because hey, my life is entering super stress mode with finals fast approaching so why not add this on top of it all? I am lucky that my campus has microwaves. I am on campus from 10am to 10pm (yay) with a 30…
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Excuses to bake/cook?
I love baking more than I do cooking. So I am constantly looking for an excuse to bake. Like tomorrow. We are having a last hurzzah before summer and everyone leaves for internships. So I wanna whip up a cake. I try to limit my excursions to when I know there will be a bunch of people, who will probably take some home. Do…
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Angry, sore and frustrated....Smith Machine
Please no one say "oh that's not heavy" to any of my loads. They are heavy to me, and that is all that matters So I just started "heavy lifting" on wednesday and have been sore since. Ok Fine I accepted this before I started. My gym has 4 Smith Racks, and 1 Power rack which is tucked way back in a corner, which I found…
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Ladies: Fear of heavy/progressive lifting. Your experience?
There have been a lot of threads about heavy lifting for women and I want to start (June 1st, after finals and I've had time to work out an eating plan and schedule). So here are my 2 fears: 1) my calves getting bigger. Before you go on about the bulking thing, I am not concerned about that or about looking manly. I was…
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My pants ripped today
I've been fluctuating between 152 and 159 for the last few months (31% BF), and I suppose my pants just gave up and split. I just started going back to the gym on Monday and I left my Zumba class feeling hideous and grotesque after watching my uncoordinated fat flop about in the room wide mirrors. I want to get down to 125…
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Bring your Scale to the Restaurant...Have you?
So my boyfriend treated me to dinner tonight at Buca di Beppo, a family style restaurant. (I have enough leftovers for about a week.) As we were leaving I looked at him and asked, "Would you be embarrassed if I brought my scale to weigh my portions?" He cocked his head to one side and replied, "Why would I be embarrassed?…