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Original Goal Achieved
I hit my original goal weight of 185 this morning and have a solid foothold in the healthy BMI range at 24.4. Looking for 175 now.
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Workout Song of the Day
Good Charlotte The Anthem was mine. You?
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Osteoarthritis and Running?
I had a physical today with the DVA and, for the most part, received a clean bill of health. In fact, my blood pressure was back to normal (40 pounds ago I was ALWAYS a little high). Yahoo, good news! However, I have been having chronic knee pain and the doctor says I have osteoarthritis in both knees. He asked me what…
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Very Variable
Crap. I went backwards from 190 to 180 on my bench press today. I was barely able to get in all my reps at my last benchpress workout and today, I almost didn't finish my first set of six. Not wanting to be pinned without a spotter, I backed of ten. The really bad thing is I have been doing OK at that weight for about a…
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Taking Advice Part Three
So, I've done some reading up on osteoarthritis and any strength exercise that doesn't include impact is probably a good thing. Day three - legs. Three sets each with eight reps: Squats, Romanian Deadlift, Leg Extension, Calf Raises, and Single-Leg Deadlift (10 reps on these). I used extremely light weights and will work…
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Taking Advice Continued
Day two of the new routine; back and biceps. For anyone interested, I did three sets of 6-8 reps of (in order) bent over row, seated dumbell curls, batwings, standing barbell curls, and reverse flys. I topped this off with three sets of 30 crunches with resistance. About one minute between sets, took right at 30 minutes.…
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Taking Advice (Strength Training)
I've read much advice lately in here about strength training and decided I should take it BEFORE I plateau. So, I started by taking a four day break from training (just couldn't bring myself to take off more than that). I started back working out today with a modified routine based on several recommendations. I have split…
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The Big Five
OK, because of the sodium thread, I just added it to my log and went back a week and reviewed. Um...I doubled my sodium a couple of times! So...what are the top five things to monitor and why? Right now I am watching fat, carbs, sodium, protein, and I threw cholestorol (sp) in there. I take GNC Mega Men Joint, so I suspect…
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Just do it...
Man I feel like crap today. I didn't want to work out at all but I did it just to spite myself. Cranked up some Linkin Park and heard this... "from the start to the end, it doesn't matter what I pretend, the journey is more important than the end or the start" Here's to the journey :drinker: Oh, and chocalate :drinker:…
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New Guy
Hello. I'm 37 and have been getting back in shape for the last year or so. I hit a wall after about forty pounds and decided casual dieting was no longer sufficient. I started tracking my calories on sparkpeople but found it lacking. My sister told me about myfitnesspal, and here I am. I look forward to getting healthy and…
