Getting my body back
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Was mean to my legs today. Made myself do an extra set of lunges and camp squats, so now they feel like jelly. Been doing a bit more core stuff too, and have to say I have less back pain now. The exercise where you brace yourself on your forearms and toes and suck in your abs is really good. Far prefer that to crunches, but I'm doing both.
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Yeah that is really good Mokey - imagine trying to get your bellybutton to meet your spine, feel the pain!<br />
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I do a variant of the plank (what you described) on the bosu (the half swiss ball thingy). You set up on it as if you are doing a push up, then you move down onto your elbows/forearms one at a time then back up into press up form. You count each movement of each arm (from press up down to forearm) and the whole time have to keep your back straight. It's good as you are moving but still feel that tension in your core. I have this as a superset exercise with my squats and go for a 40-50 count. Kicks my ass but I like it better than staying in a static hold for X seconds/minutes! -
Mokey I would back up Bart's comment about lifting "big". I think it's one of the biggest misconceptions among a large number of women that lifting big = being beefy/unfeminine. <br />
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The females at my gym that have the lean, low body fat, shaped physiques (I'm not just talking about being thin) all do decent deadlifts, shoulder pressing, dumbbell presses/flyes etc with not "easy" weights. You'll know you're alive afterwards <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> -
Whew. To mix things up a bit went on a 4 hour hike to the top of a waterfall today. Now have serious jelly legs from the number of mountain goat moves I had to do, but bonus, sat on some rocks in the middle of the rapids at the top and wrote the outline for 5 chapters of book 2. Rock on!
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[quote name='Mokey']Whew. To mix things up a bit went on a 4 hour hike to the top of a waterfall today. Now have serious jelly legs from the number of mountain goat moves I had to do, but bonus, sat on some rocks in the middle of the rapids at the top and wrote the outline for 5 chapters of book 2. Rock on![/QUOTE]<br />
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oh Mokey, pun intended!!? <br />
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Random. Even though my calf muscles are killing me after yesterday's hike, spent just under 90 mins at the gym tonight. Did some extra tricep stuff because they are the least toned part of my arms now. Also added a session on the rowing machine for something a bit different. Despite various aches and pains feel great right now.<br />
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Even more random - walked past the chocolate aisle at the supermarket! I must be ill! -
Grrrr to Easter. The gym is shut and there is an abundance of chocolate around. Went for two walks instead, second one carrying my two year old niece half the way so I guess that is something. Invested in a truckload of new clothes this week too despite not quite being at my goal weight. The pants situation was just getting too ridiculous (waistbands hanging below my hipbones and baggy). Have to say its bloody nice to be wearing stuff that actually fits.
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[quote name='Mokey']Went to the gym today and did a nasty leg workout plus a bit of core stuff and weights. Hopped on the scales at the end to see that I've put on just under a kg, [B]fuck you Easter.[/[/B]QUOTE]<br />
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Not being much of a chocoholic I did as well surprisingly. Actually I had lots of beer, wine and food. Perhaps it is no surprise at all. -
[quote name='Mokey']Went to the gym today and did a nasty leg workout plus a bit of core stuff and weights. Hopped on the scales at the end to see that I've put on just under a kg, fuck you Easter.[/QUOTE]<br />
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You can vary quite a bit if you weigh yourself after exercise, depends on how dehydrated you, etc. Just pay attention to what you weigh first thing in the morning, on an empty stomach. And even then, just once a week, as you'll fluctuate a lot normally. -
[quote name='Kirwan']You can vary quite a bit if you weigh yourself after exercise, depends on how dehydrated you, etc. Just pay attention to what you weigh first thing in the morning, on an empty stomach. And even then, just once a week, as you'll fluctuate a lot normally.[/QUOTE]<br />
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Or you can take a more scientific approach to it and weigh yourself every day and use a rolling average to get an idea of your average weight and the trend in your average weight.<br />
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There are tools on the net to do all the calculations for you all you have to do is weigh yourself first thing every morning and train yourself to stop caring about the daily weights and focus on the average weight instead.<br />
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I think the "old" only do it once a week thing can be just as hit and miss as the do it every day its easy to do a basic statistical analysis of weight but people tend to shy away from it for some reason. <br />
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Ohh and I would be surprised if you were able to eat enough to put on 1kg in 4 days even eating only chocolate<br />
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As 1kg of body fat = 7700 calories of energy<br />
4 days of normal activity for a woman = 8000 (2000cals * 4days in truth its probably a little lower)<br />
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So the total you have to eat to put on 1kg of fat in 4 days is 15700 calories<br />
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100g of dairy milk = 520 calories (Is there anything google doesn't know)<br />
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so to put on 1kg you would have had to eat around 3 kg of diary milk. (15700 / 520 * 10 with some rounding)<br />
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Or 1.5kg on top of your normal food intake.<br />
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This assumes of course that the food consumed has passed through your digestive tract in the normal way (please don't feel obliged to share that)<br />
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If you did this then you may want to find a better support group then a sports forum.<br />
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Bloody hell mooshld!! Very interesting (and slightly frightening) post. Actually I think it was more my grazing over those days and four days without the gym, I actually only ate one Easter egg. The average weight thing sounds good, at the moment I weigh myself sporadically at best, maybe every 10 days or something and at different times so probably that is not helping. Don't have scales at home so only do the weigh in when I remember to at the gym.
