Posts by melindastl

double post. 

I usually plan the workout to where i'll be finished around the time of my mid morning snack, so roughly 10AM, if I can help it. I eat breakfast before the workout, wait an hour, workout then make the shake and a regular lunch at lunchtime. If I'm working out before work I eat breakfast right after the workout. So yeah, It's simply my post workout shake and I continue on with a regular lunch and dinner. I don't use it as a meal replacement or anything.

5'4"

135 lbs

medium frame

I really enjoy weight lifting so it'd be interesting to see someone else with my stats that does as well!

I was reading NROL from the library a little bit ago because they didn't have NROLFW and there was a scheduled break week after the break-in program. I had been weight lifting for roughly 8-9 months previous to picking up the book with routines I'd make up for myself but never took a significant break from weight lifting in that time period. Before that I was all about hard cardio 7 days a week and some lifting a few days a week. Man I'm glad i'm out of that mode. Anyway, this was for about 2.5 years straight with no real break in the routine. 

After that break week I was freaking itching to get down to the basement and start again. It was great to get back into it. The week off just confirmed that I really enjoy the act of weight lifting and how it makes me feel. I'll do another week off for sure. I myself didn't get that sore, though. 

Original Post by jsattelmaier:

When I saw them, they played most of Rage for Order, most of American Soilder and most of Empire (but not Silent Lucidity if you can believe that!).  No Mindcrime, I was pissed, that's my favorite album.  They still did sound great, but were really pushing the new disc.

I used to be in a Maiden tribute band, Maiden is my all time fave, I was Nicko. 

I hate when people say the love metal and list bands like Bullet for My Valentine and Avenged Sevenfold or whatever that crap is called.  It's not metal, King Diamond is!!!!

King Diamond is most definitely metal! And I figured they'd be pushing the new album but that's ok, it should still be a good show. That's cool you were in a Maiden cover band. We have one here called "Maiden America" and they're actually really freaking good. 

Metal as well:

Rhapsody, Iron Maiden, Manowar, Queensryche (I'm not talking about Silent Lucidity, although I do like that song), Blind Guardian, Amon Amarth and a lot of Helloween.

Yeah, I absolutely loathe ab exercises such as crunches in any of its variations but I certainly have some definition and can pretty much attribute that to weight lifting exercises. As vyperman suggested: squats, dead lifts and so on. Anything that forces you to naturally stabilize your core has worked for me. 100 sit ups on the floor are just insane as far as I'm concerned.  I'm reading New Rules of Lifting  and the entire section focused on the core utilizes workouts that involve the swiss ball. They make your muscles work harder because you have to stabilize yourself and the movement. So swiss ball crunches, reverse crunches, etc. Try doing a dumbbell press on a swiss ball and you'll feel the core muscles working pretty hard as well. 

Like I said, ab workouts basically make me cringe so I have found something I do like (weight lifting) to kind of make up for it.

I say yes.

I am at almost the exact point in my life but I got a job in my field and have been so jaded by design and print (dying industry) and the pay. I have no passion for what I thought I wanted to do for the rest of my life. It is a horrible feeling. I am at the point where the prospect of making more money outweighs absolute job satisfaction.

I recently decided to apply for grad school to get either my MBA with an emphasis in HR Management or simply a Masters in HR Management. I researched the job market through the government's occupational outlook handbook and landed on HR. Job prospects look nearly as great as the healthcare industry. Have you considered HR? It may not be exactly what you're looking for but the jobs are there and you'd get to deal with employee grievances, amongst other things. I worked in HR during college and remembered I actually enjoyed it..at least enough. And that's what matters to me right now. Enjoy it enough, make more money.

One thing I have heard in regards to studying nutrition is that the field is very saturated right now. I'm not sure if it has become a recent trend or not but my bestfriend's sister in law got her degree in nutrition and found it really hard to find jobs within hospitals because that seems to be the most desired position. 

www.bls.gov/oco/ocos077.htm there is a link from the government website in regards to jobs in the nutrition field. 

And I hear you about the economy but to be honest I am quite sick of getting beat over the head with "Well, at least you have a job." Well, it's simply not good enough for me anymore. And I have to do what I need to in order to improve my quality of life and I think you should too. I've already got loans out and I know I'll be piling more on top of those but I can't sit idly by in the comfort of what my life is right now. I went to school so I didn't have to live paycheck to paycheck. 

And also, if you do go ahead with the MBA and aren't completely in love with what you do to pay the bills you could always volunteer to help people in your free time, right?

Hope this helps. I know it's a long response!

I've been using them more lately because of bad ankle and knee pain.  I can't speak for random fitness forums claiming that ellipticals are "bad" and I'm not sure in what way. I won't dispute it but I will say I get one hell of a work out from it and I'm not limping around my apartment when I wake up because I ran on a treadmill/outside in my crappy shoes.

I do hope to get back to running outside. I really enjoy it but I need to go and get fitted for some good shoes since I'm positive this is where a lot of my pain comes from.

EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!

no, i'm kidding.....I could probably do that since it's essentially the same thing but I don't want to stop it completely because it'll probably delete the progress (time, distance), right?

hey there. I am 5'4" , 120 and a size 4 or 6. I want to go looking for a swimsuit as well since I see a few float trips in store for the summer.

I eat fat free ice cream almost everyday. It's 90 calories per 1/2 cup and sometimes I'll only eat 1/4 a cup. My favorite right now is an apple and cinnamon warmed in the microwave then topped with a scoop of fat  free vanilla ice cream. It tastes like apple pie. 

so good.