Posts by agruskin

Wo

wow, great plans ppl! Itll deff be raining here which cuts out so kuch?! Its also the start of my spring break and I want to be busy, volunteering sounds great...

YES, feel it all too often...

Im doing WO B tomorrow for the 1st time, just want to check, when you do a Deadlift do you keep your legs straight on the descend?

and the Olympic Bar is how i refer to the bar i use? or do i ask for the barbell?

thanks!

i want to maintain, maybe transform fat to muscle though.

the book suggests those amounts to maintain my weight but its more than what ive been eating.  to lose weight it says to subtract 300, thats how i understood it at least.

i thought your 1600 resulted from subtracting 300 from a higher amount, right?

yea, im hoping my body gets used to the increased protein...

if i remember correctly your calorie target was "maintenance"-300 to lose, and thats what youre going over?  im looking more to reshape my body rather than lose i suppose, but i dont want to mistakenly convince that is hould be eating more as according to the book, but i dont want to eat too little either...

thanks AG!

i hope to know what im doing more next time and eventually start to actually lift HEAVY!!!

yea, its still winter basically where i am although i dont live in walking distance to anything so thats never much an option, lucky you!  im not eating 2200 or whatever it suggested for WO days, i didnt feel like i was so spent, idk...

Hedgren-you are so fabulous taking ur time to write all of this out, the sad thing is that i dont think it sinks in to those who are still underwight and malnourished bc theyre brains jjust cant wrap themselves around what u r trying to explain, idk, just a thought...

i dont weigh myself or food or anything and pretty much guesstimate that im eating somewhere around 2000 bc ill eat a lot of random food that i dont think about or remember, other than what ive had or think i will have on a given day. 

i do have a bad bone bruise from a fall that is probly worse than it should have been bc of weakened bones, i now take extra Vit D and calcium as suggested by my gyno.  i do have some of the effects u described concerning damage to the prefrontal cortex and the obvious amenorhea.

but, i am tremendiously grateful to no longer be in the grasps of ED land, that i WANT to spend time w ppl, going out to eat is now FUN and an experience, i can live now, am i the sole exception? who knows?  will life throw another curve ball so that im even more sedentary yet for some reason eat more and i gain to a BMI of 25 and do or dont get a period, i have no idea, but i am happy, altho i know i can be happier, its a journey...

i dont know, im about a BMI of 23, lightly active, my hunger and energy levels have resumed, but still no period, persoanlly i dont think ill get it back again but i dont think that its an indicator than im not at a healthy weight or otherwise healthy.  just like having a period at a BMI of 17 is clearly not an indicator of health.

lol, i WILL get this, i am commited!

ok, i didnt use an olympic bar 4 the squats, it was an EZ curl and prettly light.  is the olympic bar itself 45lbs and then you add weights to that?  i think the olympic bars were on a rack that was on the wall.  i think there is 1 smith bar in a different part of the gym where muscle heads lift and drop weights.  there is also a literal rack that has short barbells or EZ curls that is literally up to my waist, that is what i took and just lifted over my head, obviously need something heavier next time and 4 when i try the deadlifts in WO B.

so for push ups you go up to the smith machine and lean against an olympic bar that is on a rack?  your gym must have a lot of smith machines.

a bench for step ups?  like one that ppl use to lay on their backs?  or steps that ppl use for step class?  we dont have the steps unfortuantely.what are risers?  the knee paralel to the floor?  do you mean 90 degrees?

thank you!

So i did my 1st WO and I dont think i did it right...i have never used a barbell before, the one i used sort of had 2 indentations on either side and there were 2 5lb weights welded to each side (found out they were welded on AFTER i asked how they could be removed! lol)

anyway, i used that for the squats but think next time i can do heavier but i didnt see HOW you add weights to it or a place where theyre sitting where u can actually crouch under to lift it, i just lifted it over my head and started squating?

also, what did you use for step ups??

for push ups i found a giant tire leaning against the wall (very ghetto gym) but that was shakey so the next time leaned against the flooring of a boxing ring, but that was pretty tough and had to pause a few times, is that ok?

afterwards, i didnt feel like i was as spent as i could have been, ya know