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The bar hurts my shoulders when I squat
So I just recently started lifting 3 x week. I am following strength 5x5 plan but don't have enough weights just yet. (Thank you to the lifting heavy made me bulky thread for helping me to convince my husband that lifting will give me a killer butt, and not make me a raging Arnold sized woman. He will now be buying me…
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Any good smoked Salmon recipes??
My husband just got himself a smoker and he's an avid fisherman so we have a freezer full of smoked salmon. (literally, there's a whole full sized freezer dedicated to salmon,) I don't eat the stuff so I have no idea how to use it to make dinners for the rest of the family. I've done a pasta dish or two, but my man's not a…
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Does anyone else get itchy??
Not in a gross way.. I just notice that when ever I am jogging after a little bit I start to get all red and itchy in the areas that have a little extra padding. Love handles and thighs mostly. What's up with that? It's only when I jog though. Does this happen to anyone else?
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Working out with Kids bloopers
Being a SAHM I usually try to workout while the toddler is asleep. Some days that doesn't happen. Both my 5 year old and my 2 year old love hanging out and working out with me. (There's seriously nothing cuter than a 18 month old trying to do jumping jacks or bicycle crunches. We all know that kids don't always listen, and…
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Fitness Blender 5 day challenge
Hey so I just did Day 1 of their free five day challenge. I loved it. Sweat my *kitten* of this afternoon :) I found it a little too easy to do the beginner or low impact version, and just a little too crazy to do the full throttle version so I alternated going hard the first set, laid back the 2nd, hard then laid back. I…
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How does strength training count against calories?
Does it even count against calories? I'm guessing that you've got to be burning something by lifting and such, but I noticed that MFP doesn't count anything towards calories for it? Can you count calories burned from strength training as actual calories burned?
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What do you do on your rest days?
So I'm on day four and today is my birthday. I was planning on making this a rest day. My recommended calories is 1280 a day (I'm 5'5 and about 155 lbs goal is to loose about 25 lbs). I'm finding it pretty easy so far to stay within my recommend calories because I can see if I'm over I just try and burn more afterwards. So…
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Hey There
Hi! I'm a 31 year old mother of two. A five year old girl and a 2 year old boy. I've always been a farm girl so growing up I was in killer shape. After my second kid we moved away from the farm life and the baby weight didn't melt off like with the first one. I had success with the INSANITY work out videos (I have no will…
