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What to log work as?
I normally have things set on "lightly active", even when working from home, because I've been living in a huge house and had to move around most of the day. I've moved and now working from home means sitting still, really, so I've had it set to "sedentary", which seems to be accurate as my weight stayed the same, as…
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How to log trampolining
For gymnastics, I can't wear any jewellery at all so a HRM is out of the question. I've been mostly working on skills on all four (women's) pieces of apparatus and that's all strength so I've been estimating the 1.5hr sessions with variations based on what I actually do that day, trying to equate it to dance classes or…
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It doesn't seem much, but...
I just held a 10lb weight above my head for over a minute using only my bad arm! For those who don't know, a summary: several injuries to same shoulder + one to wrist = poor strength, pain when trying to exercise it, long wait for physio, dismissed from physio before fully recovered, wonky almost-one-armed gymnastics...…
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Broken rib :(
My side/back was really sore in one particular spot during dance lifts a couple of weeks back and we figured I'd just pulled something, so we carried on. I have a very high pain threshold anyway and when I'm dancing it's even higher because I seem to be able to just block pain out and not really "feel" it. Anyway, since…
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Gaining muscle despite a lot of cardio
I have no choice but to continue training while I'm attempting to gain muscle, but everything I read says to cut cardio right down when you're trying to gain. I don't mind eating more to compensate for it, but is it going to be a problem that between training (dance, gymnastics) and rehearsals (dance) I have a bare minimum…
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Is it possible without lifting?
I'm almost at the goal I'd set for myself for losing fat so I'm starting to plan for gaining muscle. I'm a dancer and I've never had any trouble gaining muscle in my legs just through dance, but it's more my upper body (abs particularly) that I'm most interested in adding muscle to. My only problem is that almost…
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Think I've found the problem - input?
When I lost the weight I've lost so far, I was recovering from injuries and rehearsing. That meant I was doing small bursts of energetic things and the rest was easy-going "zumba" style dance and a bucketload of barrework to re-condition. Since I've come back to lose the last few pounds, I've been working flat out. I had a…
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It was bound to happen eventually
Basically, I'm a dancer. I had a short time out (a year) which meant a looooong time getting back up to strength and into shape. I reckon I'm just about there! I've been planning to shed a couple of pounds to get more definition, but after a recent rehearsal where it was far harder than it used to be to throw myself around…
