Well, here we are again. Hi, my names is Jules and I live in Belgium. I'm a nerd and spent all my time behind the PC until my legs started atrophy'ing and my patellas sank down to my ankles. These days I only spend most of my time behind the PC.Progress, right?
Length/weight: 1m76, 71kg (Metric system, it's good for you!) Ideal weight: 67 should about do it Pasty body pictures: coming
Program: NROL4W, stage 4 Goals: Gain strength, lower bodyfat %, ensure health Goals, shallow: Have awesome back definition Goals, feats of strength: a chin-up, a BW deadlift Bodies I like: Amanda Greyson, Craig Horner
Favorite exercise: Deadlifts Most hated/feared exercise: BB squats
Bodypart most smug about: Back (and it's not even worthy of smugness yet!) Most cringeworthy bodypart: Hips/ass circumference ("That's no moon.. ")
Physical problems: Chondromalagia (under control), anterior pelvic tilt (getting better), lazy glutes (damm you bastards to hell!) Mental problems: Diet amnesia, desire not to be thought of as OCD and fitness-fanatic by the mundanes, exercise ADD
Might want to check out the discussion of posture at Karen411's log. We posted a bunch of articles that have been very helpful. My posture has been hideous for 45 years, passable for maybe 3 months. Getting better. Did you read the article on lazy glutes that came out the other day? (of course I can't remember who wrote it).
Something went wrong with my deadlifts the other week, and it left me with a funny feeling in my back under my right shoulder blade. My first minor injury! I'm so proud. I'm tennisball rolling it as I type, but suffice it to say I was happy to keep this workout light.
Front squat push press: the bar (20kg)
I'm trying to push up on my heels instead of my toes, but with the weight pulling me forward, this is nearly impossible. So far. Single leg squats: 3x6 DB 1pt row: 12kg Static lunges: 11kg Pushups: 6/5/5 from the ground!
Two months ago, I could only do two pushups from the ground, one month ago it was four, and now I can make a full set of six with decent form. I went from sad to awesome in two months, I thought stuff like that only happened in teen high school movies Planks: 2x90 secs Horizontal woodchops: 13,5kg
Any more weight on this and I'll need to get special traction pads on my shoes, I keep slipping away.
That's it. Then I went home and ate a spoonfull of protein powder dry out of the bag right before going to bed, keeping me up with stomach problems for a good part of the night. (Boyfriend: "Why would you do a thing like that?" Me: "It tastes like vanilla!")
Thought you meant when you mentioned being a nerd that you were a numbers geek like Espi is. She posts a good amount of stats in her log.
Oh, no. I just meant I play computer games, work as a webdesigner, and generally shy away from sunlight. I guess that's more of a geek, now that I think about it
Yes! Thanks.
Might want to check out the discussion of posture at Karen411's log. We posted a bunch of articles that have been very helpful. My posture has been hideous for 45 years, passable for maybe 3 months. Getting better. Did you read the article on lazy glutes that came out the other day? (of course I can't remember who wrote it).
I'll have a look! I'm not sure I read that article, I'm in finals so chances are I bookmarked it and haven't looked at it yet...
I'm a nerd and spent all my time behind the PC until my legs started atrophy'ing and my patellas sank down to my ankles. These days I only spend most of my time behind the PC.Progress, right? Length/weight: 1m76, 71kg (Metric system, it's good for you!)
Goals, shallow: Have awesome back definition Goals, feats of strength: a chin-up, a BW deadlift
Bodypart most smug about: Back (and it's not even worthy of smugness yet!) Most cringeworthy bodypart: Hips/ass circumference ("That's no moon.. ")
Physical problems: Chondromalagia (under control), anterior pelvic tilt (getting better), lazy glutes (damm you bastards to hell!) Mental problems: Diet amnesia, desire not to be thought of as OCD and fitness-fanatic by the mundanes, exercise ADD
Hi! Nice to meet you. Would you like a cookie?
LOL! You are funny as hell! Had to chuckle about almost every line!
Hmm chondromalagia = ? & how do you know you have an anterior pelvic tilt? Does that make your lower back go round or is it extreme lordosis?
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Hmm chondromalagia = ? & how do you know you have an anterior pelvic tilt? Does that make your lower back go round or is it extreme lordosis?
Thanks!
Chondromalacia is a fancy name for "knee pain from undefined cause". The muscles around my knees were so weak that my patella slipped out of it's natural groove, grinding on the cartilage in the process. I asked the doctor if I would be cripple at 50 and he said "The most important thing is that you think positive". Tosser.
I thought positive all the way to the gym, and then figured building up leg muscle might have a better effect. I was right
I don't have extreme lordosis, in fact a PT told me once that I have almost no curvature in my back (I told him: "that's cause it's all in my hips!).
I figure I have tilt because my ass sticks out, my belly sticks forward, and I have the hardest time keeping a straight back during lunges.
But all this will become clear when I get some pictures up. I'm waiting for my hotpants to come out of the wash!
OK, so if I get it right your forward tilt is almost entirely at the hips ---> butt going to the back & abdomen sticking forward. Just drawing a mental picture of it.. since I am learning all the latin mumbo jumbo it's important to me to remember.
And you are SO right about strengthening your leg muscles.. had this discussed just 2 days ago on how people with torn ligaments in the knee (kruisbanden to you) still maintain stability because of their leg muscles. The disadvantage is that you have to actively think about it & be aware.
So, did you see your doctor back after starting a strength program? Did he ever suggest it?
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Proudly contrarian & anti-KISS Ergo-log: news & KB on legal & illegal ergogenic aids
Poliquin: "There's no overtraining, only undereating" --> to undereat, don't overtrain!"
Burgener: "There's no overtraining, only underrecovery" --> sleep, rest & recover
journal: Go with the flow
OK, so if I get it right your forward tilt is almost entirely at the hips ---> butt going to the back & abdomen sticking forward.
Yup, it's just a wrong hip tilt, probably due to weak hip er.. flexors, glutes, muscles. Weakness. And vice. I haven't done much active work to fix it, I've been focused on my glutes. But they're almost fixed now, if the size of my ASS is any indication
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Originally Posted by Espi
So, did you see your doctor back after starting a strength program? Did he ever suggest it?
It was a knee specialist, so no. He said nothing could give my patella his groove back, so I don't think he can still tell me anything. And I refuse to pay him so he can tell me to think positive again :p
That's it. Then I went home and ate a spoonfull of protein powder dry out of the bag right before going to bed, keeping me up with stomach problems for a good part of the night. (Boyfriend: "Why would you do a thing like that?" Me: "It tastes like vanilla!")
Mary Poppins has a new song: "A spoonful of protein powder makes the stomach upset, stomach upset, stomach upseee-et..."
If you're really desperate for vanilla-y goodness, maybe have an 1/8 tsp extract?
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They call me Amanda, that being my real name, and "They" being people who know me in person as I don't go around introducing myself in real life as "scribess." 'Cause that would just be strange.
Or maybe your PP isn't the greatest? It's been a long time ago thought that I ever had dry PP on its' own.
On the hip tilt, another one could be weak abdominal muscles.. both are needed to keep you 'balanced' . Very hard to work on something you've done wrong for a long time. But.. it can be done!
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Proudly contrarian & anti-KISS Ergo-log: news & KB on legal & illegal ergogenic aids
Poliquin: "There's no overtraining, only undereating" --> to undereat, don't overtrain!"
Burgener: "There's no overtraining, only underrecovery" --> sleep, rest & recover
journal: Go with the flow
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Vegetarian, consumer of large quantities of Quark cheese
Working my way from 76.4 to 58 kg (168 - 127.6 lbs)
Lifting a bit, schedule varies. Barbell weight: 22kg/48.4#
Did you just add the sig line or did I not pay attention.. intermittent fasting Quark-eating vegetarian .. at least YOU know what Quark is. It is funny , when you see other people walking away from the dairy aisle with a ton of Quark, yoghurt or cottage cheese you know they are either muscle-bound or have a family of 6 to feed
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Proudly contrarian & anti-KISS Ergo-log: news & KB on legal & illegal ergogenic aids
Poliquin: "There's no overtraining, only undereating" --> to undereat, don't overtrain!"
Burgener: "There's no overtraining, only underrecovery" --> sleep, rest & recover
journal: Go with the flow
Welcome! I am all for the metric system. Wish I had more chances to use it in everyday life. Unfortunately a few logs are the only place it comes up! That and my food scale
Had the sig for 2 days now I think, but its not colored or anything, so unobtrusive Also, I haven't really posted much yet I'll make a log tonight when I get back home though.
Everybody here in Belgium knows what Quark is (though they prefer to call it 'platte kaas' instead of 'kwark'). Can't abide cottage cheese, so I eat 3 pints of quark every day.
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Vegetarian, consumer of large quantities of Quark cheese
Working my way from 76.4 to 58 kg (168 - 127.6 lbs)
Lifting a bit, schedule varies. Barbell weight: 22kg/48.4#
And, give me a crunchy chocolate chip cookie. Now I know how to get people to my log, just offer them cookies.
Jules, looks like your log is going to be non-segregated, at least. I prefer chewy cookies.
Chocolate chip is fine, but do you have any snickerdoodles?
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They call me Amanda, that being my real name, and "They" being people who know me in person as I don't go around introducing myself in real life as "scribess." 'Cause that would just be strange.
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Proudly contrarian & anti-KISS Ergo-log: news & KB on legal & illegal ergogenic aids
Poliquin: "There's no overtraining, only undereating" --> to undereat, don't overtrain!"
Burgener: "There's no overtraining, only underrecovery" --> sleep, rest & recover
journal: Go with the flow
I thought you were immune to sugar the way you always talk about never ever having a craving for it.
I was kidding sweetie. I just love the way this log is flowing and how Jules sense of humor flows so I subsribed to it.
Quite honestly and more seriously, I really don't ever eat the stuff at all. Alan tried desperately to get me to eat a doughnut or a candybar at the Summit. He failed. I would perhaps cave to some really, really special sort of dessert but not to a candy bar or doughnut from the local quickie mart. He ate a big ass doughnut btw.
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