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Calling all rugby players!
How many do we have here? Long shot here but was anyone at the Battleship tournament in Mobile, AL this past weekend?
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Reintroduction
Hello all! I used MFP with great success last year but when my rugby club took time off during the holidays last year I stopped tracking and fell off the wagon. It's time to get healthy again, not just so I can make it through a full match but for me and my family. I'm not as young as I used to be! lol
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Anyone else here train Brazilian Jiu Jitsu?
I've started training in the last few months and would like to add some friends who do the same!
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Don't talk yourself out of it!
I didn't want to work out last night. I was tired and I didn't feel well...I just wanted to flop on the couch and watch Game of Thrones. I knew that I "should" put on my tennis shoes and get on that treadmill but that internal lazy voice kept giving me reasons not to get up. "You've still got a cold." "Man, those allergies…
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The Countdown Has Begun!
Today marks 60 days until the next Jiu Jitsu tournament I plan on competing in and 60 days of seriously cleaning up my food. I'll be cutting weight to drop down a couple classes so I'm not the smallest in my division. Looking to add other BJJ fighters, martial artists or anyone motivational! :) It's time to prepare to…
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What do you eat before training?
I'm interested in what people eat preworkout just in general but mainly I'd like to know what is eaten before something really intense. I train in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu 3 times a week and a cardio conditioning workout on Saturdays. I'm doing a little experimenting of my own to figure out what will be enough to get me through…
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My wife's amazing story!
It's been awhile since I've been on MFP and I have been continuing my journey...down 52 pounds and still going! :-D BUT, I wanted to share my wife's story and her results: About 2.5 years ago my wife decided she was going to change her life. Through hard work, diet and exercise she has succeeded in such an amazing way! 20…
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Just a little motivation :)
I just wanted to share my wife's story and her results as motivation and help for anyone who needs it! :) About 2.5 years ago my wife decided she was going to change her life. Through hard work, diet and exercise she has succeeded in such an amazing way! 20 months into her journey she had lost 137 pounds! All done by just…
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I just love my co-workers *eye roll*
All of my co-workers know my lifestyle...I try to eat "cleaner" foods, I workout several times a week, etc. Well, apparently a couple of the other guys in the office are on a mission to make me eat what they think I shouldn't. One even says that he's going to get me to eat lunch with him one day and take a picture.…
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Heard my first bit of "broscience" today
So I'm in the squat rack doing dumbell curls...NOT! I was doing squats!! :happy: Anyway, my buddies that work out at the same time were talking to some other guys (between their tricep/shoulder superset that we're friendly with about squats and I heard one of the say: "I'm not going out for football, so I don't need to…
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Deadlift...
...set a new deadlift PR today AND I got my first shin bruises! :laugh: :bigsmile:
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If You Only Do One Type of Weight Training, Do Squats
But we already knew this, didn't we? :happy:
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Pleasantly surprised!
In preparation for date night with the wife, I checked the restaurant's menu to see what they had and decided that I was going to have a few oysters. Looked up the nutrition and...10 calories per oyster! Guilt free and uber tasty. Can't get much better than that!
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Squatters, I need some opinions!
I started Strong Lifts last week. On my first sets of squats I could feel myself shifting the weight from my heels to the balls of my feet while coming up. This is bad form of course, but it also isolated my quads and I wasn't able to work the posterior chain. I figured I had some movement in my back and made some…
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Started Strong Lifts 5x5 today...
...and I REALLY like it! I was just kind of doing what I thought I should everyday and this is what I needed. I feel like I did some real work this morning! Anyone else start out on SL5x5? Did you have good results?
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Question for the heavy lifters out there
I've recently purchased a gym membership and starting throwing the heavy stuff around. My question is this: I still have about 60 pounds I'd like to lose, so should I work in some cardio after I lift or will the lifting/new muscle be sufficient to burn fat? I'm still trying to work out my routine but I've got it down to an…
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To the men:
Found this article today: http://artofmanliness.com/2010/02/22/8-reasons-you-need-to-rediscover-your-passion-for-exercise/ One line reflected a thought I've been having recently: "Every man should be able to save his own life and protect his children and spouse." Time to admit it...I fell off the wagon. After losing a good…
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CrossFit
Does anyone here follow CrossFit? I found something today that mentioned it so I started looking into it. After researching for awhile I've decided to start TONIGHT! What better time than the first of the month?! :) Hopefully by New Years day I'll have some great progress to report.
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Small victories!
So today was weigh in day and I haven't lost anything. Not worried about it since I've lifting more lately and I pay more attention to how my clothes fit anyway. BUT I was getting ready for work this morning and I pulled out a shirt my wife bought me about 6 months ago that did't fit...tags still on it. I've been trying it…
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New to myfitnesspal
Downloaded the app to my android a couple days ago and I'm really liking it. I've been on LiveStrong for the past year and decided to try this out since LS doesn't have a working android app. My wife and I started our new lifestyle (no diets!) last June. We got fed up with how terrible we felt and always being the biggest…
