We have a set of 1-, 3-, and 5-lb vinyl weights at home that my mom bought. (Green, purple, and blue. No pink. Whew!) I finally pointed out that she was more exhausted after carrying her pocketbook & briefcase from the car to the house than she was after lifting weights. She looked at me kind of funny for a minute and then said, "You know, I'd never thought of that before." I'm going to help her get started with NROLFW this weekend. (Although me coming in after HIIT is kinda scaring her.)
Go mom! Hey I am 46, I am sure she is not far off!
I wrote a great post about pink dumbbells and how the picture was sending the wrong message and that Deadlift Girl should've posed for them, and then my browser eated it
I had a lot of fun reading the last page or two of your log. Keep up the good work with your lifting. I like the way you analyze things and make sure the program is working for you. That's a great sign.
I would love to learn a martial art some day. It's on my very long list of things to do.
Wouldn't it be fun if they made the 45 lb plates in pink? If they came in hot pink, they would match my running tennies I just bought. I love pink and wear it to the gym as much as possible, LOL. Then I go back in the free weights section and throw stuff around ROFL.
Ah, there's Deadlift Girl Now see, if they'd had your picture on that poster, I would've taken the "we can do it, too" subtitle on the poster a lot more seriously.
I'm not in to pink, but if they made 45s in pink, I would so lift them. And if the chica in the poster had been lifting pink 45s, I would have been first in line to the gym that night
psst... a can of spraypaint would provide all the pick weights a girl could need...
When helping a friend move, I marvelled at her colorful weights .. her reply: Yeah, I had to rustoleum them because the dog kept peeing on them and they were starting to rust...
I too always wanted to learn a martial art but not sure if I have the patience. It seems like such a lengthy process. That sounds weird, I know, but it's true. Then again, if I had started 10 years ago, I'd probably be reasonably adept by now. So if I started tomorrow, I bet I'd be reasonably adept in 10 years. Maybe even 5? I also wouldn't know how to pick one out of all the options!
Then again, I'd also love to become a yogi, go to an ashram in India, start my own baking business, have two kids, learn how to paint with watercolours, learn a different language, live in a different country for a year, go back to school and get a new job...sacre bleu!
ETA: adding "grow another 5 inches" to the list of to-dos.
Ah, there's Deadlift Girl Now see, if they'd had your picture on that poster, I would've taken the "we can do it, too" subtitle on the poster a lot more seriously.
*I get progressively weaker on these, and that makes me sad
**Brain was fried at this point, and I forgot that I have both a right and a left side. So on the first set I only did one side and then kept going. *headdesk*
***I are idiot. I've been doing these wrong!! And I feel dumb. I've been going out and sprinting as hard as I could for the first interval and then gasping/going home. Turns out you're supposed to start at lower intensities and work up. Gah Finally did it right tonight. Jogged the first one, then a little faster, etc., until I sprinted (most of) the last one.
I'm glad, too, that I went out and stayed out the whole time. The sun was just finishing setting, all orangy and pinky in the west, and the full moon was just rising in the east. Twere purty. My neighbors probably think I'm nuts now, since I kept going in circles to watch the moon come up.
FSPP: (1x10xOH, 1x10x20lb FS, 1x10x40lb BS) 1x9x40lb; 1x4x30lb, 1x5x30lb, 1x5x30 BS/1x5x30 PP
Step Ups: 2x10x10-lb DB
DB 1-pt Row: 2x10x10-lb DB
Static Lunge: 2x10x10-lb DB
Pushups: 2x10
Plank: 2x60s
Crunch (Swiss Ball): 2x10x10lbs
I was in a good mood; this workout made me grouchy. Arms were failing on the FSPP; nearly dropped it on my head a few times. Meh. I keep meaning to look up a Woodchop substitution because I don't have a mid-level cable or to get a rope attachment and do the reverse woodchop; I know I use my shoulders too much when I try it on the Swiss Ball; I finally just threw in crunches today.
I know this workout comes back meaner in Stage 4, but I'm not at all sad to see it go now. Maybe by then I'll quit being such a wimp and actually use heavy weights. Meh.
You know, I had a very similar experience with my fspp last time. I was SO dreading doing them today and turns out it wasn't that bad. Maybe your body was just rebelling today and you'll see a lot of improvement with them in stage 4.
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The FSPP is a really difficult exercise, don't beat yourself up over it! Also, are the crunches too easy? I never felt that comfortable doing the Swiss ball crunches because they just didn't challenge me. Have you tried weighted incline crunches? You could hold a medicine ball or plate. Or, I recently started holding a 20 lb bar across my forehead after reading about that technique in Karla's log. VERY challenging!
***I are idiot. I've been doing these wrong!! And I feel dumb. I've been going out and sprinting as hard as I could for the first interval and then gasping/going home. Turns out you're supposed to start at lower intensities and work up. Gah Finally did it right tonight. Jogged the first one, then a little faster, etc., until I sprinted (most of) the last one.
Don't worry about that--the important thing is you got it right now . Some of us had coaching on how and what to do in the NROL4W forum and still didn't get it completely right. (I got the last couple of workouts of stage 1 wrong because I didn't read the part where it moved from 2 sets to 3, but I'm not doing it over .
You know, I had a very similar experience with my fspp last time. I was SO dreading doing them today and turns out it wasn't that bad. Maybe your body was just rebelling today and you'll see a lot of improvement with them in stage 4.
I had this same result in A2, but then A3 was fine. It was probably spillover from an undereating weekend--I tend to get absorbed in stuff over the weekend and forget to eat. Sunday was Easter lunch and a protein shake (okay, lunch might've gone over). And no sleep; I don't sleep enough. Need to start tracking that again so maybe I'll sleep more.
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The FSPP is a really difficult exercise, don't beat yourself up over it! Also, are the crunches too easy? I never felt that comfortable doing the Swiss ball crunches because they just didn't challenge me. Have you tried weighted incline crunches? You could hold a medicine ball or plate. Or, I recently started holding a 20 lb bar across my forehead after reading about that technique in Karla's log. VERY challenging!
I did the crunches last night because I was already on the ground for the Planks, and the ball & dumbbell are right there. I hold a 10-lb DB behind my head on the Swiss Ball Crunches. (Or directly over my face, if I think I'm starting to wimp out on them.) I get the same whole-body shakiness as I get with Planks, and then really concentrate on just using my abs, even though that means I don't get up very far.
Eh, I'm just not as patient as I should be. I want to lift heavy stuff now.
Don't worry about that--the important thing is you got it right now . Some of us had coaching on how and what to do in the NROL4W forum and still didn't get it completely right. (I got the last couple of workouts of stage 1 wrong because I didn't read the part where it moved from 2 sets to 3, but I'm not doing it over .
I've been reading the forum and everyone's logs, but I think I was skimming over information that didn't apply directly to me at the time. (Same problem with the woodchop/Swiss Ball thing. Note to self: go find those threads now.) And I thought I knew what I was doing. Oh well...
What's up with all the crabbiness towards yourself?? You have the rest of your life to get good at this stuff !!
I'm lurking around because altho it's my rest week I'm still going to go to the gym to practice some stage 2 exercises and needed some ballpark numbers for these crazy exercises...
I can't believe what I missed in that book. I have holes in my eyes LOL! I was doing the jacknives fine all this time but I thought I was wimpily modifiying them. Also the addition of sets at the end of each progression. I could have done that too.
I am MISS Impatient LOL!
You will get to the heavy stuff. Maybe you should frequent the new oly forum hehe.
What's up with all the crabbiness towards yourself?? You have the rest of your life to get good at this stuff !!
I'm lurking around because altho it's my rest week I'm still going to go to the gym to practice some stage 2 exercises and needed some ballpark numbers for these crazy exercises...
Hang in there and have fun in stage 3!
Eh, I think there's just a lot going on right now, and it all comes out in my workouts. Hard to hide anything when it's just you and the weights. Sometimes, I just wish things would work without my having to get involved. Meh.
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AMEN! And, while we're being impatient, I want to look like a Goddess now too!
Hehe, yup.
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I can't believe what I missed in that book. I have holes in my eyes LOL! I was doing the jacknives fine all this time but I thought I was wimpily modifiying them. Also the addition of sets at the end of each progression. I could have done that too.
I am MISS Impatient LOL!
You will get to the heavy stuff. Maybe you should frequent the new oly forum hehe.
Already got my eye on that forum. And started trying to look up Olympic/etc. lifting in this area. Didn't find any yet, though.
AND I figured out why I'm having trouble with any pulling on my tower--the sled/slider/whatever is sticking or something. I'm pulling away, but it ain't moving. Figured it out when I tried to hang on the bar to pull it and it didn't budge. And then it went tunk, tunk, tunk, whee/splat! Can I put WD-40 on it?
Reverse Lunge/Reach: 2x10x10lb DB
Cuban 2x10x7lb DB
Reverse Lunge is getting easy with 10s. The Cuban: I held two dumbbells in each hand, the 5s and the 2s. That's awkward, but it worked. Sorta. My thumbs hurt now, though...
Doh. I've been doing an Incline Reverse Crunch all this time. Oh well...
Intervals: ...or not. Started late, so it was dark already and our street has no street lights. Instead, did 30s/30s burpees (w/ pushup & jump) for 4 min. Ow.
Taking the rest of the week off and starting Stage 3 on Monday.
AND I figured out why I'm having trouble with any pulling on my tower--the sled/slider/whatever is sticking or something. I'm pulling away, but it ain't moving. Figured it out when I tried to hang on the bar to pull it and it didn't budge. And then it went tunk, tunk, tunk, whee/splat! Can I put WD-40 on it?
Check out all the moving parts on it and grease the wheels as it were. WD 40 should work fine.
Duct tape and a hammer won't work in this instance
So call me lazy if you will but this is exactly why I hired a trainer right away. He keeps me doing the right stuff and in the right way so I don't waste my time because I was too frigg'n lazy to read all the words. I know myself very well. Guess you could be my twin sister.
Check out all the moving parts on it and grease the wheels as it were. WD 40 should work fine.
Duct tape and a hammer won't work in this instance
A problem that can't be fixed with duct tape? Those exist?
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So call me lazy if you will but this is exactly why I hired a trainer right away. He keeps me doing the right stuff and in the right way so I don't waste my time because I was too frigg'n lazy to read all the words. I know myself very well. Guess you could be my twin sister.
I did read all the words, but I also read really fast and don't always remember everything exactly the way it was written. I think I started with Incline Reverse Crunches back in Stage 1 before I had my Swiss Ball, so they just stuck with me every time I read "Reverse Crunch" in my notebook. Oh wells. The HIIT... well, I got it now. And now I'm going back and re-reading parts of the book again, esp. the workouts.
Maybe it was the Burpees, but my butt is toast today! And my triceps are whimpering a little. Hehe!
I have the same problem - wouldn't we be a disaster if we worked out together. By stage 7, we'd probably be doing an entirely different program.
Unless one of us read what the other one missed--then we might stand a chance!
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And you would be fine LOL! Perhaps write a book?
Maybe just a picture book, so no one would skip over the words
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Congrats on finishing stage 2! Great workout, 100 lbs on the DL is awesome =D
Thanks! I don't think those really counted, since my form was horrible (which of course is why I had to try a second one), but I'll get 'em. So close I can smell it...
So, I took measurements when I got home tonight. (No scale.) And they all show one consistent trend--me not being able to use a tape measure. Pleh.
Current (Previous, Start)
left bicep: 11" (10.75, 10.75)
right bicep: 11.25" (11, 11.25)
bust: 35.5" (35.66, 34.5)
waist: 29.5" (29, 29)
hips: 40" (40, 39.5)
right thigh: 24.25" (21.5, 23.5)
left thigh: 23.75" (21.75, 22.5)
right calf: 15" (14.33, 15)
left calf: 15" (14.66, 14.5)
shoulders: 40.5" (39.5, x)
Anyway, just logging those just because. I've been taking creatine for over a month now, so I wasn't really expecting anything to move. (I think my main problem with measuring is not remembering where I measured last time... I mean to draw a picture or something, but I forget...)
Pictures as soon as I can steal, er, borrow a camera. (And maybe without the obnoxious flash this time!)
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Now see, if they'd had your picture on that poster, I would've taken the "we can do it, too" subtitle on the poster a lot more seriously.
Now see, if they'd had your picture on that poster, I would've taken the "we can do it, too" subtitle on the poster a lot more seriously.
Finally did it right tonight. Jogged the first one, then a little faster, etc., until I sprinted (most of) the last one.
. Some of us had coaching on how and what to do in the NROL4W forum and still didn't get it completely right. (I got the last couple of workouts of stage 1 wrong because I didn't read the part where it moved from 2 sets to 3, but I'm not doing it over 
I think I started with Incline Reverse Crunches back in Stage 1 before I had my Swiss Ball, so they just stuck with me every time I read "Reverse Crunch" in my notebook. Oh wells. The HIIT... well, I got it now. And now I'm going back and re-reading parts of the book again, esp. the workouts. 
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