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Bodyweight workouts and 'time under tension'
Anyone have experience with really exploiting these? I'm staying away from weights for a while (please don't hassle me, will go back when I know what's up with my body), and am looking at ways to increase intensity, while not going over 15 reps. Any estimations on roughly how much additional stress eg a quad gets with…
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Weightlifting and old injuries
So, hopefully, next week I will see someone competent who'll at least pretend to give enough of a **** to figure this out, but in the meantime: Can it be that lifting for under an hour a few times a week might exert enough pressure on an old, maybe poorly healed fracture to wake it up? What are the odds? For someone in…
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Craving triggers - food
I'm mostly controlling my urges ok with a mixture of mini lozenges, gum, and patch (sometimes - I use one every two days, even though I know there's not much in it by the 2nd day). But the two times I feel the pang are in the morning, and right after meals. This is gross, but, sometimes, it's even during the meal that I…
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What to wear to a server interview?
I'm wanting to pick up some extra hours of work, and am applying for a serving job at a restaurant. Never done this kind of work before, so: what to wear? It's a mid-level restaurant, I guess - casual urban dining (not a franchise, but not 'fine' - no specific cuisine). Business casual? All black? Skirt or pants? Am…
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Challenge to trainers!
I dare you to come up with a workout that minimizes injury - meaning, uses the SAFEST possible exercises, for most people, maybe with some alternatives - but is effective at building strength, for new lifters over 35. For example, I now think I might have avoided my current pain if I'd stuck with the RDL and not tried the…
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Swimming calories
Is there ANY WAY I burned 203 cals doing a leisurely breaststroke for 35 minutes? 128ish lbs. (Was in the pool longer, cut out time on the side and getting out to find a NEW floaty board thing because people kept stealing mine, btw what's up with people?) No HRM. Heart was pumping hard for some of it, but mostly I just…
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Fuelling workouts
I'm playing a bit with meal timing, just accidentally. Ie, I forgot to eat lunch, am tired, my workout will suck. For those who need food to fuel workouts, how many cals do you like to have under your belt before getting into it?
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Adult family member wants to be spoon fed
I've got a family member in her 50s who's fed up with being overweight. She's got a 'diet' mindset, I think because of her generation. She wants me to give her a list of foods to eat, and isn't interested in learning more about nutrition. Certainly not in counting calories. I'd like her to learn enough so she can make…
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Incorporating burpees into a lifting program
Any recommendations for programs that do this? I think what I want now is a short (30 min) daily workout, alternating upper and lower, that would involve doing things like burpees, mountain climbers, etc, in between 2-3 heavy-ish movements. Does this make any sense? For example (just to give an idea of what I mean, I'm…
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Does protein powder degrade in hot fluids?
Want to put it in a hot coffee tomorrow..
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How much can you gain/lose (of fat/muscle) in 3 weeks?
Going from: - 3 x / week full-body strength training + maintenance calories to - one workout every 1.5 weeks, and 500 extra cals? < did that for 2-3 weeks, and gained 5 lbs on the scale. Did I do something dumb like gain 8 lbs of fat and lose 3 of muscle? 30s, female. I've only been lifting (8-20 reps, with light/med/heavy…
