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Medication, HR and calories burned.
I've recently been diagnosed with a heart arrhythmia and have been put on beta blockers. I've been cleared to exercise but the medication has slowed my heart rate right down so that when I exercise, it doesn't get up anywhere near what it used to, so the calories burned on my HR monitor is much lower than before. This is…
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Strong Curves - Bret Contreras
Does anybody have this book? i'm really keen to buy it but I don't belong to a gym as I have a small baby, so unsure if I could do it at home. Does anybody know if I will need any equipment and if its possible to do at home before I go ahead and buy it? Thanks!
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Joint pain when doing weighted squats and lunges
Ok so I can happily do bodyweight squats and lunges all day long with no back and knee pain but as soon as I start to add weight, my knees and back start to hurt and continue to do so for several days afterwards. Is this to do with form do you think? I always thought I had good form but Im not so sure now..I exercise at…
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Low Calorie Burn?
Ive got an HRM for my workouts and the calorie burn always seems to be on the low side for me compared to everybody else.. Ive just started Insanity and for the 42 minute cardio plyometric session this morning I burned about 260 calories… My Heart Rate was between 150 and 180 the whole time…I weigh 128lbs and I think I’m…
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How to build my upper body strength?
Ok so I want to build up my upper body strength because quite frankly its pathetic! I can’t afford the gym so I do exercises at home. I use Dumbells and I’m currently using 3kg (Pathetic I know!). I also do push ups and tricep dips. I use kettlebells as well and I’m using between a 4kg and 6kg weight. So anyway Ive been…
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The New Rules of Lifting for Women
Hi, I was just wondering if anybody has got this book and if its any good? I'm tempted to buy it but just wondered peoples views on it please, thanks :-)
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Day 14
Morning All, How is everybody doing with this? I'm doing my run later to get my exercise quota in..Feeling like Ive lost weight in my clothes and stuff but the scales still say the same! they will not shift ha! Hope everybody has a good day :-) x
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Strength Training at Home, Any good or waste of time?
Ok so I want to add some strength training to my exercise regime, I currently run 4 times a week and do a home DVD 3 times a week. The DVD’s I use do have strength sections (Squats, Lunges etc and arm exercises with weights) but the weights I use are only 2kg and I feel this isn’t pushing me that much. Is it possible to do…
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Help please with HRM, max heart rate
I recently bought a K920D Pulse Sonic HRM Watch and have been using it for my past few workouts. It seems great apart from one thing..I set my max heart rate at 186 as this is what the calculation says it should…so I set it so it beeped if it went above that. Well My heart rate seems to vary from 125-165 in my workouts,…
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Motivational Friends needed please, Having a dip!
Hey! Looking for some buddies please! Having a bit of a dip at the moment and I really need to keep my motivation up! I have always given up on my healthy eating and exercise in the past but I’m determined not to this time but my mind keeps trying to tell me I’m not strong enough to keep it up, so could do with some…
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Bean Shoots - How Safe?!
Hi, So I’ve just discovered a love of bean shoots and I was searching on the internet for recipes including them and there seemed to be a lot of articles coming up about them causing an E Coli outbreak and other major health scares?! Does anybody know anything about this? I love eating them raw but the articles are saying…
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Just saying Hi, Uk Gal here
Hi! I've been a member here for some time but just started getting serious with my diet/exercise the past 5 weeks.. I'm 34, from England. 5'6" and currently weigh 141lbs. I've lost half a stone since I started but have another stone to go ideally. I'm finding logging my food and exercise so helpful, my downfall seems to be…
