Posts by lindinig

Viperman,

You are going to make one heck of a trainer! Do you have any idea how much money you could make when people start coming to you after they fail to see results from their current trainer? Not to mention all of the testimonials from your current trainees.

Great job!

This thread makes me glad I have a home gym. My friends are starting to notice, and are actually paying attention to me when I tell them how heavy I lift.

I suffer from the same exact thing! I have always been active, but I've been limited from being very active due to my dizziness. I have recently stopped power walking with the women from work because I couldn't do the entire 2 mile walk! I make it about 1.5 miles, and I can barely walk back to the office. I have tried eating sugar packets, peanutbutter, water, gatorade, some of it helps a little, but none of it keeps the dizziness away for the duration of the workout.

I could never play basketball on a school team, run track, or do an hour of high impact aerobics. I have had this since I was 10. I've had numerous tests, and I finally had some neurologist diagnose me with migraine associated vertigo. It seemed to fit my symptoms, and sometimes, it's associated with a headache, but mostly, just dizziness. The weather and heat bring it on too, not just workouts.

Unfortunately, I have just learned to live with it. I pace myself. I found that I'm finally able to get through an entire turbo jam dvd or tae bo video. I push myself a little, but don't go all out. I also find that HIIT with the jump rope doesn't affect me negatively at all! Yet I can't run long distances, and I haven't been brave enough to try sprinting to see if my sprints would be short enough to not affect me.

There is no correlation between fat loss and weight loss. You can definitely lose fat without losing weight. The key is definitely through lifting heavy weight. In fact, you may even gain a few pounds due to muscle growth.

Unfortunately, I want the scale to go down. When I started NROL4W, the scale stopped, but I was losing inches around my body. So, the fat was leaving, but my muscles were staying and getting stronger.

Now, thankfully, the scale has started to move again, because I really can't see how I can continue to lose the amount of fat I have left to lose without the scale going down a little :).

Is it possible you're not leaning back far enough on your squats? If that's the case, drop the weights and do bodyweight to see how that feels. You want a 90 degree angle between your upper thigh and your shins, meaning your knees should not be leaning forward. I have bad knees and squats don't hurt them at all. It's the lunges I have to be careful of.

Keep at the push-ups and do as many prone jacknives as you can. I laughed my a** off when I was doing my first prone jacknife, but I consistently got better. The first workout, I could only do 1. By the end of stage 1, I could only do 12 per set.

Push-ups are hard. I made it my goal to try to do as many as I could per set and I have greatly improved in this area.

The book recommends you do 16 weeks (I don't have the book in front of me, but I think that's about right) of stage 1, if you've never worked out with weights before, so it will only help you to stretch this stage out a little longer until you get more comfortable with the exercises.

Good luck and log your workouts! You'll be amazed at how much you can accomplish in just a short period of time.

Original Post by epiphany323:

Amandief:

 

I'm not sure where in the challenge it is but when you get to the exercise day that incorporates jumping lunges and jumping squats you gonna start to hate that thing. All my love for EA Sports Active went away for a few minutes after it made me do those exercises.

 OMG that is too funny! I'm glad it gets the heart pumping though. It makes me want it even more. I must enjoy punishment.

It totally gives me more energy! I actually look forward to my workouts when I never really used to before. I find my workout relieves my stress, helps me sleep better, and I'm not dragging through the day, so I'm definitely getting more accomplished as a result of my not being tired all the time.

I'm assuming my clean(er) eating also contributes to this. The way my body is starting to look keeps me motivated to keep working out, which is another bonus.

There are A LOT of forum posts about this very topic. Most people on here will tell you to increase your calories a little more and lift heavy weights. This will burn fat, and preserve muscle. Weight on the scale, and body fat do not necessarily go hand-in-hand.

Yes, that's true, they are, but since there are only 7 days in a week, I felt I had little choice if I was to do both. Other people have commented that they lift and do HIIT together, some in the same day. I still feel I'm making progress in my lifting, and I'm mainly doing HIIT for increased fat burn and for better cardiovascular health so something is working for me.

I focus first on lifting, second on HIIT. I only do HIIT once or twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays because I'm religious about lifting on M-W-F. I do full body workouts on those days, not split. I haven't had a problem with either lifting or HIIT, as far as energy is concerned, and I do think I'm working hard enough, as I'm so exhausted after my session I just want to collapse in a little ball on the floor. About an hour later, I'm back to normal.

I have been walking slowly away from the scale, and I'm learning to accept that I may not reach what I consider my ideal weight of 130. My boyfriend says I look fantastic and I'm hovering over 160!!!!! Every day he tells me how much skinnier I'm looking (still have my childbirth belly, but it's slowly going away). I lift weights and do HIIT. I think I'm much more healthy now than I was when I was 130. My new goal is to get down to a size 8, regardless of what the scale says. As long as the fat keeps dropping, I'm happy.

This answers my question too. We're going to N. Carolina in 2 weeks and I was considering doing my sprints on the beach. I'll have to bring my old sneakers for this.

** and I'm jealous too. I just love the beach and wish I could live there full-time.

It's been raining a lot here too. I've been jumping rope, turbo jam, jumping jacks (I actually had no idea how much I can get my heart rate up by doing these until I started doing them with my kids!).

My right thigh is 1 inch smaller than my left thigh. My left thigh is dominant, which makes sense since that's the leg I give preference to. I didn't even notice until I started taking measurements. Even after taking measurements, both of my thighs have lost an inch since I started working out, and my right is still smaller! Go figure.

I'm doing the special workouts at the end of stage 1, doing as many reps as I can, so I spent an overwhelmingly long time on the bench. He asked me how long I was going to be on there, and I said 1 minute. I think I got off it in 45 seconds, (25 reps), but apparently, I was a machine hog.

Amethystgirl, we have the same problem at home. My bf got mad at me last night because I was spending too much time on the bench.