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I'm beginning to wonder about whether I should have changed my weight so I'm seeing something other than red on my bar. Seriously. If this is yellow today, I'll probably want green, and my whole goal for at least a month, perhaps longer, is simply to maintain my weight. If I cut, it will be by 200 calories a day. I've got to admit, I'm feeling very good with maintenance calories. I even feel full in the evening. That should stop me from bingeing. Trying to lock in for a while. New lifting routine is awesome. It's a self-regulating system where you assess what your lifting weight should be on the fly during your warm up. It's the first system that I've ever used where I could say "I understand how it works." So many simply prescribe weights and reps and without much logic other than a linear type of system with a lot of 'shoulds' in it. This doesn't. It uses your subjective opinion to figure out how hard and how much. Have a great day everyone. Lift something up for me today and yell "This is for Northern!"
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182.8 lb
Lost so far: 17.2 lb.
Still to go: 0 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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Diet Calendar Entry for 13 August 2015:
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2445 kcal
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Fat: 121.41g | Prot: 164.10g | Carb: 177.26g.
Breakfast: Raspberries, Maple Syrup, Cinnamon, Quaker Old Fashioned Oats, 2% Fat Milk, LeanFit Whey Protein Shake - Vanilla, Espresso Coffee, Unsalted Butter Stick. Lunch: Butter, Toasted Whole Wheat Bread, Egg, Sliced Ham (Regular, Approx. 11% Fat). Dinner: Baked Potato (Peel Eaten), Chicken Drumstick Meat and Skin (Broilers or Fryers, Roasted, Cooked). Snacks/Other: Butter, Toasted Whole Wheat Bread, Almonds, British Columbia spartan apple, Cheddar Cheese. more...
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losing 120.4 lb a week
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You don't always need to lift "heavy", but it needs to be challenging for your capabilities (Muscle, form, coordination, etc..) until you can build the muscles & form. I'm finding that machines are being way too limiting on range & motion. I can bench press 120lbs on a machine but can barely do 35lbs dumbbell presses with proper form and control. It gets real when you've got big 'ol dumbbells hovering over you and your arms start to shake. With free weights I can adjust my grip & position easier to be able to target and activate the right muscles. On the machine bench press I find I'm using more triceps then pecs; the machine doesn't provide a wide enough grip for me. #FreeWeightsAreAwesome
15 Aug 15 by member: Frosty Heimdall
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Frosty, I think I'm just up for some new challenges there. My TRX workouts are proving to be amazing, challenging, and make me feel good, so changing thing up at the gym is also in my cards at the moment. Definitely as in any type of exercise form is the be all for safety.
15 Aug 15 by member: wholefoodnut
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Frosty, I agree with dumbbells completely. Weights are smaller and you can dump them safely if you're by yourself. On a machine you can push far more because you don't have to recruit the support muscles, you just push. If you really want to work the pecs, do a 2 count at the bottom of the press with the dumbbells. it takes pec to get the weight moving from that position at a standstill. Heavy is relative as well. You can use fairly light weights to burn out some of your energy and load weight slowly until you get to a heavy weight, which will naturally be lighter since you've used up a lot of that muscles energy reserves. You get the benefit of a near failed rep without the danger of overloading tendon, which is often slower to bear the weight than muscle. That's one of my 'againsts' for machines as well - all you have to do is push so you can go really heavy without regard to overall fitness to safely use that much strength.
15 Aug 15 by member: northernmusician
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Wholefood. What's the name of the book you're looking for? I'm curious.
15 Aug 15 by member: northernmusician
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NM, no idea, wish I knew. They no longer had it. I know basically what it looked like and flipped through it that day. Shoulda bought it a couple weeks ago. I bought the huge Mark Bittman How to Cook Everything Fast cookbook though for $15.00 there, so all not lost. I'm collecting all of his books. I also bought his Food Matters that I have been reading off an on all day and 3 other cookbooks for $2.00 ea but that was at 1/2 price books. They had a couple on lifting that I debated about but didn't. The one I wanted had detailed diagrams of each muscle that was used doing different moves. It looked very interesting.
15 Aug 15 by member: wholefoodnut
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I did my arm sculpting challenge in your honor today. I think you have the answer to all of this weight training we are doing. There is no one size fits all.
15 Aug 15 by member: Mom2Boxers
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