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W4D1 - how did you do?
I'm a bit worried about starting week 4. Suddenly there's more running than walking, and while I can do 3 minutes running with 2 minutes resting (messed up a bit today after the actual workout ended) I'm not sure I'll manage 3 minutes with 90 seconds break - or running 5 full minutes :o So how did you do when you started…
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Running in hot weather: who else?
*sigh* my last run was at 35C (95F) after sunset. Things are slowly getting problematic for me. About a month ago I could easily run over 7km with minimal walking and had almost finished C25K, now I'm back in week 5 and barely manage 5km with a lot more walking, and the weather will only get hotter the coming months. I…
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gut pain when walking/running
I'll discuss it with a doctor next week, but I do wonder if people here have the same experience. Since coming back from a vacation two weeks ago I'm having serious problems with side stitches. Well, most of them are gone now, but one pain refuses to go away. It's on the left side close to where to do the appendix…
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What's wrong with the goal/food diary?
What's going on with creating goals on the website? Every two days my maintenance goal jumps up from 1600 to 1870kcal. I had t use the automatic goal calculator to change it back. But this time it doesn't work at all. When using the calculator it does show the presumably correct numbers, but it doesn't update on the food…
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Someone here from Iran? Working out
I'm going on vacation to Iran in two weeks and I do wonder if it'll be possible/appreciated if I try to at least do a little run every now and then. Wearing a manteau and headscarf might be somewhat inconvenient, but not doing anything for two weeks sounds not cool either. So: anyone reading and has some advice for me?
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Question to asthmatics - reliever during workout
It remains uncertain whether I have asthma or not. The challenge test I had was right on the boundary between light asthma and no asthma. My doctor said I might try the reliever spray for a workout session to see if it does anything (not that I think I currently have any breathing problems). Well, I did that before a run…
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Just lost my job
Just need some cuddles as this is such positive community. Was given my notice today :'( And it's a damn difficult job situation in my industry at the moment (which is the reason for the layoffs). I got 4.5 months to find something else, and my ex eployer will continue paying my salary, housing and car until then (I'm on…
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antibodies, b12, and the lot. What to do now?
Looking for some experience here. I had some blood tests done as I have all sorts of health problems (easy weight loss, poor concentration, tingling in limbs to name the worst). Note, my TSH is up and down for years, but now I finally found a doctor willing to do an antibody test. The results are: Free T3 2.42 pg/mL…
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Solution for freeing hands when running (mobile phone)
At the moment I'm holding my mobile phone in my hands when running. But night time temperatures (I run in the dark) are climbing above 30 degrees C (some 107F I think) now and I do need to bring something to drink. I've looked around but could not find any half-decent mobile phone arm holder in shops (I'm not in a western…
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Other rep regime than stronglifts
I'm looking for a different lifting rep regime than stronglifts as it got so boring. And I always end up with being able to do 3 sets with good form and then it gets ugly. I just don't progress! I started doing 5,3,1,5 with weight a,b,c,b and a<b<c which is much more fun, and I have not reached the weight where sqats, rows…
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Form presses
I just watched the OHP presses video below, and saw a few videos on power cleans. I don't have sound on my computer, thus excuse me when this is wrong. It seems like the bar should rest on the shoulder muscles. I think it's clear it should certainly not be on the colar bones (been there, got the bruise). I've seen various…
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Advise on lifting: would this work?
I'm currently in a country where the only gym I could use belongs to the gated community I live in. There's a rack, a bench I can move into it for bench presses, and two bars, each weighing about 5-6kg (thus no olympic bar). Total amount of weights is about 80kg. This gym has very limited opening hours and there's usually…
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roasted vegetables - calories?
Hello, the office canteen has a new dish in the healthy corner: roasted vegetables: mainly onion, bell pepper and some courgette and aubergine. They seem to be putting some oil or something else slightly brownish over them, but it doesn't taste overly fatty. Any idea how much calories I should be calculating for 100 grams?…
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Notes for those using or consider using Runkeeper
After trying many different running apps I settled for Runkeeper. Here's a little review and some tips on how to make it work properly. The menu is not very intuitive and their own version of the C25K workout is rather rubbish, but where the free version of this app really shines is that you can create custom interval…
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RunKeeper: how to track long hikes or cycle rides?
Any Runkeeper cracks around here: I'm wondering how to use it to track long hikes or cycle tours. If I start up the app and keep the screen of my iphone on the battery will be empty after some 5 hours. what I'm interested in: the actual track as it's not possible to upload GPS tracks to the runkeeper website time and…
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Losing again *sigh*
*sigh* I'm a 41 year old woman. Everywhere here I read that women have massive problems losing weight. Losing 14kg was super easy for me. I was hoping for 8-10kg, but it was so easy I continued. I'm 5'65" and 133lbs, in maintenance, just barely I'd say but eating as much as I can since my stomach is a bit messed up from…
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15 variations challenge
So I didn't know what to do yesterday, and suddenly got the idea of a 15 variations bodyweight challenge. 30 seconds workout/10 seconds rest and coming up with the next variation Squats Pushups Lunges Core How far would you get?
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Food you once liked
Argh! I felt like eating some crisps today, 100 grams of Laurenz crisps, actually fits into my daily maintenance budget. But oh dear... it didn't taste well at all, and my stomach is feeling stuffed since I ate them. I did get really hungry an hour before dinner again, but the stuffed feeling was, and actually is still…
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lifting heavier with limited gym facilities - maintaining strength
I'm trying to lift heavy within the limited gym facilities I have. Well.. I know I won't get far with this, but in about a year I will have access to a better gym again. Until then this is what I got. I'm doing combinations of squats, overhead press, bench press, bentover rows (are they that useful?) and deadlifts, and…
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Training upper *kitten*
Sounds strange but true. How do I train the upper glutes? I seem to be getting a lot of muscles on the lower glutes (where I'm sitting on. Exactly there), but hardly anything where I'd like to fill out my trousers. I'm doing bodyweight exercises and lifting heavy, next to swimming and attempting to run. How can I shift…
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just started out
So I just started out. I'm still trying to find the right app for this program (any free or not too expensive recommendation appreciated, but it should include stats and show improvements) and I do wonder how to go on. I did the first three days on RunKeeper, which required me to do a 2.41km walk/light run 8 intervals of…
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Looking for strength tracker app
Can anyone recommend me an app for strength training tracking? I don't want to post the results on a website but only have an overview of the last weight I managed to do. The stronglifts app is nice in that I can mark sucessful attempts and get graphs, but what is missing: I cannot add further exercises and I cannot change…
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woops!
That is strange! I decided to maintain when I went from 61 to 59.7kg a bit too fast for my liking. I didn't linger there for a long time as I stopped with my pill, which gave me a bigger than normal waterweight gain. The moment I started with the pill again and the weight should have gone down I went on a weekend trip.…
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Physiotherapists: funny noise when stretching
Right, I had winged shoulder blades all my life. Recently I noticed that they are mostly gone. I guess strength training might have contributed to that. Great! But since I'm seeing improvement I noticed that lots of 'things' (not sure what it is: muscles, joins, ligaments?) make a funny noise when I do dynamic stretching…
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running trainer ios
Hello, is there something like a running trainer for iOS? I don't want music but record the distance I'm doing at preferably what speed. If this app also gives some advice on improvement, like give a beep for x distance running, x distance walking with auto adjustments (I think I can run 200m at the moment), then that…
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Difficult to up calories
So I decided to maintain, properly this time I hope as I don't think I should be losing more weight. But gosh, it's so difficult all of a sudden to eat more. I'm eating an extra banana between breakfast and lunch, but I got so used to my snack vegetables (next to my computer. I take pieces without thinking about it) after…
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When to stop?
Since July I lost 15kg and went from 75kg to now 59.9kg :dizzy_face: at a size of 169cm. I'm nearly 41 years old. I never thought I'd see a 5 in front of my weight again to be honest. And to be honest again: I lost quite some weight from being sick. My weight loss is still rather fast though even though I've set MFP to 1kg…
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Fun with water retention (for ladies)
anyway... I misplaced my pill and forgot to take it for 3 days, all the while I was wondering why I was gaining weight. Then I took the pill again without looking at the calendar on the strip and wondered why I was suddenly losing weight again. And the next evening I looked on the pack properly, saw what I was doing and…
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Bloating, water weight and sweating
I havn't really thought through this, so please excuse... What is bloat exactly? Is it the same water accumulation that some people get in their lower legs and the same as stored after a hard weight session for the muscles to heal? If I go to the sauna, would I lose water from all three things mentioned above the same way…
