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Anyone still do StrongLifts?
I did some lifting back in 2014 and StrongLifts made the most sense when I read about it on here. Searching the forums, it looks like StrongLifts hasn’t really been mentioned since then. It makes a lot of sense to me as it’s compound moves, shouldn’t take too long each session and achieves progressive overload. Is there…
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Quick exercise to prevent backache?
Normally I would walk to work, walk around the classroom, walk across the site if I needed a coffee etc, but being in lockdown I find a lot of the time I’m stationery and when I am, my back doesn’t like it. Are there any exercises I could do for 5 minutes here and there throughout the day which might help prevent that?
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Pokemon Go Plus
Anyone else got one?
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Dumbbell strength training
In an ideal world, I'd go back to Stronglifts 5x5 to improve my strength and retain muscle. Unfortunately time, transport and childcare conspire to make an at-home workout more likely to be sustainable. I find body weight exercise less rewarding as I enjoy the progress I feel when adding weight, and I'm scared of dropping…
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Recommend a full body dumbbell workout
I would like a full body dumbbell routine that is simple to do, with few exercises, basically a dumbbell equivalent of Stronglifts 5x5. I would like to achieve a progressive overload and maintain some muscle as I lose weight.
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When you forget your Fitbit...
... What do you do? When it's only logging half the day, how do you compensate?
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Is 3 weeks worth doing?
I enjoy and miss lifting, having done a few months of SL when my pre-schooler was a newborn. I have 3 weeks when I could go to the gym and put my son in the crèche a few mornings a week, but once the summer holidays hit and my eldest is off school, I'd have to stop as my eldest is too old for crèche and too young for the…
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Progressive dumbbell temporary substitute
I miss SL so much! I have a few weeks when I hope to get back into it (I'm on holiday, the 8 year old isn't, there is a crèche for the 2 year old), but after that I go back to my normal life where all my childcare favours are used up with work responsibilities and I want a social life, to spend time with my family, etc…
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Health in the last 20 years
Isn't it rather disingenuous to write a blog about health in the last 20 years without mentioning that the percentage of overweight and obese Americans (and people of other nationalities too) is still on the increase? Is there any point looking at changes in other areas if there is still no change here?
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Sirt food diet
This diet was in all the papers and magazines this New Year in the UK, I don't know about elsewhere. Is it 100% mumbo jumbo or are there elements of truth to it?
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Low Fibre - how hungry will I be?
i usually have a high fibre diet, but for a colonoscopy I have to have a low fibre diet for a few days. If I'm used to having a stomach full of fibre, am I going to get really hungry?
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Best BOB Stroller
I want to get a BOB stroller because I want to be able to go jogging with my 7 year old and take my toddler along too. All of the BOB strollers now say you can jog with them, so I'm wondering how to choose between them. Any hints, experience or advice?
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Happy Diet Pill
A diet pill where the only side effect is happiness ;) http://youtu.be/qq3w5DfWaWM
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Exercising with a baby/toddler
I just made a video which shows one way I get some exercise in with baby: http://youtu.be/3UCc8_DGXA8 What are your tips?
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Research on maintenance
A lot of what you see quoted in the press about how to maintain a weight loss comes from these studies: http://nwcr.ws/Research/published research.htm One weakness of their studies is that their subjects are self-selecting, and so far have condisted of a narrow band of mainly white women, with an average age of 45, and so…
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Doh!
Yesterday at about 11.30 last night I noticed I had nearly reached 10,000 steps, so started dancing around the kitchen to the Adam's Family theme tune (no idea why!). I must've gotten distracted because the next time I checked the fitbit app it was 11.58 and I had 100 odd to go! I did a bit of high speed jogging on the…
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3000-4000 steps???
According to the NHS, the average person walks 3000-4000 steps per day. I just got a fitbit, and without even trying, I've gone over 10000 every day so far. I really don't see how I could live my life on 3000-4000 steps. Just pootling around the house or going shopping takes up so many steps. Have you ever found you had…
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OHP progress at last!
Having started SL when DS2 was about 10 weeks old, finally, now he's over 6 months, I have managed to lift 12.5kg above my head! I did 10kg for weeks and weeks on end, with no sign of being able to move up, and after a few weeks off, suddenly I can! I assume the muscles needed were strengthened by the other exercises…
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Squat disagreement
I asked a PT at the gym to check my form for the squat as the weight was getting a little more challenging. He said it was good, but I shouldn't go so low because I'd injure myself. My concern was that I wasn't even breaking parallel. I tried expressing this but he just kept saying I shouldn't go so low early on. I argued…
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What were your first few Stronglifts sessions like?
Tomorrow I have a free session with a PT at the gym which I hope will be an intro to the correct form for the lifts. I left a message explaining that I wanted to do, so I desperately hope he's not going to try to give me a tour of the machines... So how did your first sessions go? Did you go it alone? Did you have help?…
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My Stronglifts Check list
I know you're probably all thinking 'Just do it already!' but I'm going with the 'Failing to plan is planning to fail' adage, and trying to get myself organised. 1) read up on SL 5x5 CHECK - been on website, downloaded app, in this group etc. 2) get the go ahead from the postnatal physios at the hospital. (Not sure what to…
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Low(ish) carb, high(ish) calorie microwaveable recipes?
I have Gestational Diabetes so have to stick to 15g of carbs for a snack and 40-50g for a main meal. We're just getting a microwave, so I wondered if anyone had any suggestions. Thanks :flowerforyou:
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Bit freaked after bleed
I had a bleed yesterday. We went to the hospital and all is well. The problem is I walked more and carried more yesterday than usual (normal steps per day= 10,000-12,000; steps yesterday = around 14,000), so I'm worried I need to slow down. That sounds easy enough, except that I have GD, which I am trying to control via…
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Eating for 2 after all...
I've been reading some interesting research that suggests our 9 month pregnancies are linked to our metabolisms. Basically, we give birth once our metabolisms can no longer process enough calories to supply both baby and mother:…
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Best pop tart flavour?
As you can tell by the title, I'm not American, and here in the UK the supermarkets only stock one or two flavours of pop tart. HOWEVER, in a nearby town there is an American sweet shop that has a wall-full of pop tarts. Last time I went I found it so overwhelming I bought none and got .5kg of Peanut Butter M&Ms (which I…
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Snacks for hospital bag
Last time I gave birth, the food in hospital was dire: tiny portions, little fibre and little protein (at least for me, as a vegetarian). On the up side, as part of the National Health Service, it was free. I supplemented it with chocolate and dried apricots then, but I will be a little more ambitious this time round.…
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Get mfp to sign up to the National Weight Control Registry
Unlike many of you, I am not very cool, nor very persuasive, so I have come here to ask for your advice/help in getting mfp members to actually DO something. I was reading the findings of the National Weight Control Registry ( http://xnet.kp.org/permanentejournal/sum03/registry.html) and was hit by the fact that their…
