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Lets talk glycogen stores - in non-athletes/women
I'm trying to find some information on the size of glycogen stores in normal people, and here especially in women. I know that the liver can store a substantial amount of glycogen, and the muscles have a lower concentration, but of course the amount of muscles is higher than the 'amount' of liver. With this I want to know…
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Scapular winging: strengthening exercise
So yeah, you probably know I had a bad shoulder accident. Things are getting better. One thing still not ok is strength around the scapular on one side: there's winging, it's a bit too far away from the spine and when lifting up the arm the shoulder still rolls a bit to the front. And that reduces strength in that arm. I…
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Damn you, 2022
Just a quick note because I'm super frustrated. I really wanted to run 300km from October to end of December. Things didn't look good due to being sick a few times too often but hey, there was still a chance this might happen. Last week Monday I had a wonderful and surprisingly fast run. Thought I might get a year best and…
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Wow, amazing diet cookbook! (yeah, right)
Oh dear... I just found this cookbook, promising a healthy 2-3lbs/week weightloss, without rushing it, eating 900-1500 calories per day :o
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Looking for core exercises without arms and little legs
My core has lost pretty much all strength. I'm currently doing physio for my slowly healing shoulder and am not allowed yet to do things like pushups/crawls/any lift or any other weights. I just started running again and don't want to wreck my legs too much. Any ideas? So far I found: Leg raises, dead bugs (need to be…
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Garmin, what did you smoke?!?
My physio gave me some rather strenuous exercises for shoulder and upper back today next to some slow lat pulldowns and rows. The most difficult for me were mountain climbers. Yeah, I am deconditioned after 8 months of doing very little. Garmin counted the whole workout as anaerobic capacity (I guess the interval nature of…
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OMG, I cooked coffee for the first time in my life today!
To preface: I drink tea. I drink an awful lot of tea. And water. Coffee is yucky. And then I every now and then had a cup from a streetstall somewhere in the Balkans, or on the Arabian peninsular. And actually, it's quite nice: strong, creamy and rather rich in sediment. So today I went to a wee Turkish shop around the…
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Recent odd posts
Does anyone else notice an increase in posts with helpful texts by users with names such as xdf8esdfs32s? It nearly looks like people are trying to use ChatGPT with a bot to automatically post to forums. I see the same kind of posts in other forums as well. Thoughts?
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Calories strength training
For my rehab I'm doing strength training. Of course I need to nourish my body sufficiently, but I also don't want to gain weight. I know strength training doesn't burn a ton of calories, but if you do something everyday it can easily add up. Anyone fancy a guess? Warning: High volume, low weight Pull day: Bendover barbell…
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Feeling stupid in a sauna
I'm treating my fractured upper arm joint to some sauna sessions after trying to swim and some exercises. This is followed by a very thorough massage. I normally don't do sauna, or just went to one attached to a pool where everyone would sit in their bikini/swimming trunks. In this bath there are 5 saunas spread over a…
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Deltoid exercises (if you can't lift up your arms and are weak)
So yeah. My deltoid is shot due to having fractured my proximal humerus. I'm allowed to do everything as long as it doesn't hurt. Obviously I still have physio, but we're currently trying to figure out what causes problems and what doesn't. Bone is stable. But I can't lift up my arm 180 degrees non-passively due to having…
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Autoimmune diet - what is it?
Side-tread for not wanting to steal a tread from someone else. TO is eating an autoimmune diet for possibly autoimmune arthritis and avoiding gluten, dairy and sugar. I'm just assuming TO is in the US, but not sure. This is quite the opposite to what doctors recommended my central European mom, and my sister for autoimmune…
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Anyone else eat rolled oats with yogurt etc cold?
I once bought a pack of rolled oats for cookies. Found out I didn't like them, and then wondered what to do with them. So I mixed some oats with skyr and added some mixed fruits I had at that moment. Since then I have oats with skyr (40 and 88gr) with raisins and whatever fruit I have. The idea of cooking oats with milk…
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Would you consider liposuction for those pockets of fat that don't vanish?
This is something I'm considering since I found out it's not all that expensive. I have two super annoying accumulations of fat on my body that don't react to weight loss at all. a) around my ankles. Thought it was encapsulated hematomas and scar tissues from spraining my ankles far too many times. After scan doc is…
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Winter: how not to freeze when working out?
Just wonder if someone else has the same problem: I ran for 90 minutes at just below freezing today. The whole 90 minutes my arms and legs were cold, and once I got home I slipped into bed with my electric mattress cover on full power. I was so cold I didn't even notice this. Took a shower on highest temperature and was…
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Very minor surgery: nope, no exercise for now.
Ugh.. so I had minor surgery yesterday afternoon: a huge lipoma was removed from my outer ankle. Cut turned out to be bigger than planned because it would not pop out in one go but fell apart. Pain is not really present but I still am not allowed to exercise for at least a week, possibly longer. Well.. wearing shoes is…
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This is a nice community...
Whoa, now that's interesting! I'm seeing a pattern here: Apparently I'm not allowed to say that I don't see a reason for buying premium when a user asks as my post ends up in 'your post needs to be approved' limbo. Which of course it won't. And apparently I'm also not allowed to write about this as the thread gets deleted.…
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Anyone here who understands VO2max and it's pitfalls?
Ok, VO2max is an estimate of the total oxygen consumption during physical exertion. In a lab setting it's a number calculated somehow from ventilation and oxygen and carbon dioxide concentration of the inhaled and exhaled air. If I understand this correctly, if there's one part of this not working properly, be it…
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Yay, finally getting things done!
I'm totally into simplifying my life: living close to all shops, a not too big flat which is easy to clean, little stuff, etc. Only problem: I don't clean. And it drags me so down to live in a dusty flat that I don't feel like doing anything else. I finally found a solution for this: a vacuum robot! My flat is quite ideal…
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higher volume, low weight strength without gym
I love strength training, yet it totally wrecks me for days. I now know that I have a muscle condition and that most things apart from walking on flat surface are anaerobic. Not sure what exactly strength does, but it also has some fab benefits: I'm not constantly hungry, and running works so much better. I just seem to…
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Wait, how is MFP able to update my app without updating my app? (measurements messed up)
So since yesterday something happened to the app on iOS. it looks like always - at least until I add the amount of an ingredient, because now the serving size site looks a lot different. The serving unit selector is tiny! hardly able to use it on my 12mini. And the number of servings field suddenly highlights the whole…
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Sports doctor prescribed exercise
So basically I do have muscle problems that I'm born with. Doctors are finally trying to figure out where things to wrong as a cardio pulmonary exercise test I did was mostly ok apart from the known problem of possibly not accessing fatty acids for energy for anything above relaxed walking and lactate rising a bit too…
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dry beans, calories (here black turtle beans)
Now I'm stuck with an ingredient. I have Brazilian black turtle beans, dried. Considering they're hard and probably contain very little water I'd think they should be around 350 calories/100gr yet everything I find points towards about 140 calories. Basically I find no database entries for any type of beans that appear to…
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Running: ankle injury.
I somehow managed to get the first running injury ever, after 7 years. So I tried to run slower, made smaller, more steps. Somehow injured my heal or outer ankle at the first attempt. 3 weeks later my heal still hurts without any improvement. It's not very strong to start with though. Anyone know what kind of pain this is?…
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Favourite cookbooks?
What are your favourite cookbooks? Not so much for learning techniques but for everyday cooking. My favourites are the three books my Meera Sodha, and the Lotus and the Artichoke series. I cook from all of those regularly. While they are mostly vegetarian/vegan I'm not. I don't eat a lot of meat/fish, but if I feel like it…
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Odd observation re: restless night after evening workout
Warning: don't try this if you have a high blood pressure. Mentioned a few times over the years that I can't sleep well after working out in the evening, especially running. Just totally restless, wake up constantly, tired in the morning. Well, evening is the only moment I actually am able to run. So that's not good. For…
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The crazy hamster in your brain, or why to delete Candy Crush
A while ago I saw an investigative journalism tv programme on why children are getting more and more overweight. There was a lot on easily available fast food, supermarkets outside school, the usual. A boy featured in this programme who has a genetic variation that makes the hamster in his brain go wild if he sees any…
