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Good place to buy Fitness goods (especially weights and thin
I'm looking to pick up an olympic bar and a power rack or at least a squat rack - anyone know what the best option is around here , assuming I can't find something on Craigslist?
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Stronglifts 5x5 Summary
Since trying to read that PDF report is like having your face shoved into a stranger's hairy, sweaty, muscular armpit I've sent several people a little write up -- and I've now done it like 3-4 times so I think its time to immortalize it somewhere and save people from that dreadful PDF. The Plan There are only 2 workouts,…
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Progress Photos
As requested! A sticky for your progress photos. I can edit any post at any time, so if you make a post now and then want to update it a month or two down the road rather than re-posting, let me know and I will add whatever you want.
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FAQ - Read the summary, then me!
(This is a work in progress but I wanted to at least start gathering them up. I'm locking this thread, but feel free to write up answers for any of these and post them elsewhere, I'll gather them up and add them here - some of you know more than I do about some of this) 1) What equipment do I need? At the absolute bare…
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Useful Links: Form check link, calculators, articles, etc
We post these all the time but they get lost. Please post your link and categorize it in your post with a brief explanation (what's it for, what problems might it help solve, etc). I'll gather them up in a master post here. Former stickies- Crazy core lady's core exercises…
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Workouts? Just Diet? Both? What are you doing to get in sha
We need more discussions in order to get more members - there are totally more than 9 MFPers living in OC although I notice most of us are in the GOOD part of OC not that icky south county part that the non-natives like so much. HA! (Challenge me on that if you like, but I will win because I know where ALL the good food…
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May check in and chat - May all your weights go up
New thread! Goals thread to come. Or someone else make it and I'll sticky it.
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April Goals!
This thread will be stickied through the month of April, so we can find it to refer to later. It will be replaced by a May thread in may. Post your April goals here so you have a single quick place to come back and reference them later. I know its a pain but please try to keep chatter on this thread down - we have the…
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April Check in & Chat - Spring into the Squat Rack
Posting up a new thread before I go to bed tomorrow. I also put up an April Goals thread in the sticky - but post them here too so you can talk about them. I don't really have one - I need to get a bit more cardio in, if I can, but I won't sweat it. In the past I'd say my goal was not to miss a lifting session, but I…
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March Check-in&Chat - Green beer to fuel your lifts!
Yeah, I had nothing witty to say either Audii. Also I will not be drinking any green beer, because, gross. But maybe I'll have a Smithwicks. Sooooo - Goals for the month? I was debating testing my one rep this month, in something, but I don't know - I'd like to do it with an eye towards hitting a big number like 135 on the…
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3x5? 5/3/1? Madcow/Texas? (Life after 5x5)
I know, I promised a write up on deloads but lots of people are asking about this stuff too so. Moving to 3x5: Technically, Medhi says move on each movement when you have stalled 3x (that means stall, deload, stall, deload, stall then deload and start again from 3x5). For squats and deadlifts this probably still works for…
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February Check-n-chat: Bada$$ B!tches do it with barbells
New month, new thread. Goals for the month? Or whatever?
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January Check in and Chat - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Whew I actually remembered to start a thread. Welp - I'm up ~5 lbs in weight since 2 months ago when I stopped logging, and more importantly since this past month when my eating has been more or less INSANE (pushing towards 3k calories some days and probably over on a few - and I have a desk job). I'm going to dial it back…
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Can we talk about carbs again?
So, I have noticed over my time logging what I eat, that I don't get a whole lot of satiety from just protein/fat. And I DO get a lot of satiety (lasting too) from starchy carbs. This does not seem to align with other people's experiences. It is also seemingly NOT volume related. It is slightly calorie related, sort of, in…
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Sensation of blacking out when squatting
Since starting Wendler 5/3/1 my husband has started to feel like he's going to black out (blood pressure changes?) once he reaches are certain amount of weight/reps squatting. We were doing the high rep lower weight squats as assistance - so we'd do the pyramided sets and sometimes he'd make it through the last set ok and…
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August is for lifters - Check in and Chat Thread
We should start August by celebrating Qarol's 100 lb squats! How's everyone else doing?
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Happy July - Progress and Chat Thread
Howdy - Its July 1st, which I hear is a holiday for some kind of imaginary country I don't believe is real but Happy "Canada" Day to those of you that believe in it. I had the most awful workout EVER yesterday. We helped a friend move in the morning and then did some shopping and then I tried to squeeze in a workout at…
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Urrrgh! Outing trans people
My husband is a moron. I have a good friend who is FTM - he's been on T for about 2 years now, top surgery, etc, and in my opinion no one would EVER know. My husband apparently thinks he still looks oddly feminine (he really does NOT but since my husband knew him before the T as well he sort of 'sees' my friend as a lady…
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Its June, who's still with me!?
Happy June 1st! Where we at folks? I struggled and pushed hard on the bench press yesterday and made it through the full 5x5 at 77.5. I am really thankful for my fractional weights, last time I went to 80 I just failed all over the place because it was too big of a jump. I even kind of regret not buying the smaller…
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AWESOME stuff you see at the gym
(ok try to keep this thread not TOO unkind.....) I got to watch a hilarious routine the other day where this guy was curling (preacher curls) a RIDICULOUS amount except it was WAY too much for him so his buddy was "spotting" him by pushing up while he pulled. And not full ROM on the curls either but I can pretty much count…
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May Progress
Yep - its May! Keep it up ladies. I'm starting may at: Deloading from the 145 squat (Failed for the third time tonight AND my form tonight was really suffering) - debating deloading more than the requisite 15 lbs, or else using the fractional plates for a while. Thoughts? Overhead press - 60lbs (I've done it before so help…
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Boys suck and this is why
while I am pushing and struggling my way towards a 165 x5 deadlift my husband is heading cheerfully for 200 with very little apparent strain. He *says* its hard but it doesn't LOOK hard. Boys suck because ______________
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TV Tropes
I consider TV Tropes one of the nerdingest things ever. Who else trope-walks?
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Avengers + Alcohol = The best thing ever?
Avengers themed cocktails! http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2012/05/23/avengers-themed-cocktail-recipes/ My bar is pretty well stocked actually so I think i could just supplement a few things and make this happen. But this would be the best party ever. And we should totally do this for squid night.
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April Progress
Hi Ladies, I was thinking maybe: Post your schedule (what days you are working out) and how you are doing, where you're at, questions, comments etc?
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Debating lifting while in a deficit (plan or deficit)
(This is not a 'should I lift while I am still dieting' question its more about if SL 5x5 is a good idea while I am still dieting). I'm in my 5th week of SL 5x5 (yay) - session 15 is tomorrow. I'm starting to wonder if i'm eating ENOUGH for *this* program. I can't tell if I'm starting to hit little stalls due to 1) hi, its…
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Book recs please!
Gimme -- A) Your top 5 of all time (if you can, I never can). B) Your top 5 recent reads (can be a series) that you enjoyed a good deal even if they didn't make it into your top 5 or all time. C) stuff you've read that other people seem to like that isn't very good. Change these numbers however you like. Don't stick…
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No video game is as fun as skinny feels ....
Haha. That's my motto right now. Anyone else fighting for free time? I even feel like I want to quit raiding so I can work out more. I know. So weird.
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What's a good guild name for an MFP guild in TOR?
Even if you aren't playing it - give us your ideas/vote! I think it should be nerdy/star wars related but also somehow related to fitness or being fit, weight loss, whatever.
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Races/Other Competitive fitness events in CA
Anyone doing any races or events? I'm thinking about signing up for the Temecula 5k, mostly because that lines up best with me finishing the C25k program and having a few weeks to improve my time. Also planning to do the zombie run in temecula in next october.
