Posts by erikaams5

I think this is quite misleading to the people dumb enough to purchase it for added support during workouts ... seen a commercial on the spanish channel that offered a similar item but it was for giving you more cleavage and lifting boobs if they sag in tops. I have to wonder if this is the same kinda thing but just preying on people that are not that bright.

From your pictures it looks like you have never worked out before and if this is the case than it will be relatively easy to be on a deficit and build muscle. (you would be considered a newbie) You do understand that you will go up or plateau on the scale? If you eat healthy with enough protein (to keep the muscle you will be gaining by weight training) You shouldn't have a problem putting on a little bit of muscle. To get an athletic figure will take some time and patience... It took me about 4-6 months working out constantly to were I would consider my body to be at an athletic figure but I'm also considered Mesomorph so I had a fairly good foundation to start with. Every person is different; depends how serious and disciplined you are with diet and weight training.

*you could eat at maintenance with training numbers included; maybe even a little more, 1-200 calories, more since you said you are underweight.

*use weight training..there is a section on CC for workouts too; to give you options.

*and start with light weight (to get proper form) and once you have that down add more weight.

BTW..BMI numbers are not the best indicator of fit levels..mine says I'm over weight and my body fat is at 14-14.5% right now.

Hi girls. Well I didn't check in on Friday because the number has me so worried; every time I weigh my self i feel obligated to change my diet to accommodate the slight change in weight and it is sort of making me feel like a worrier. I just want to have a healthy image of myself and the scale isn't doing so..actually the total opposite of that. I know that the results of diet and exercise on me will be different than everyone eases but I just have a inner desire to be at 120's even though I know that it's not physically possible because I wouldn't have any body fat (only 30lbs of fat on my body).

So this is what I plan on doing...supporting you guys and checking my body fat every other week and posting that up! I will keep my low carb/high fat/ and even higher protein levels and exercise with total body-leg only days stacked with HIIT and do cardio on off days. I hope this doesn't kick me off the group because of the weighing?? I really do enjoy this little group we have. And I do love reading all of the insights of your lives!

On my way to college be back later.

Some women have dense breast made of mainly tissue and some women have breast made of tissue and fat..sounds like you're in the later one. Your body will lose weight first were you normally gain it last. If your fingers got bigger last or your cup size went up last than this is a perfect example. If we could lose it where we wanted to first, most of us would have big breast. Good for us with big chest that we love, that that isn't the case. As if we need super models with big breast and a beautiful shapes walking all around us making us mad by them not having a problem eating too much!

I believe in utilizing all compound movement. Only when you see a part of your body not developing the way you want it to; that's when you add in isolate movements for that part.

Great site for information on weight training from women who are into fitness is called http://www.figureathlete.com/archives.do?y=20 08.

I've seen others try to say that it's not all that great but I don't see any of them pictured in the girls on the photo section of the website or writing articles on board for proper diet/training/ and health information! I've learned to only take advice from people who look like they utilize the advice that they are giving.

Tod: Every time I think I will pull myself away from the weight training I fail miserably and end up in the gym with my wraps and bottled water ready for another hard workout. So I decided to switch from 5x- 5 or 4x- 8 to 5x- 10. I feel less drained and more motivated to do cardio afterwards. Even though the last 3 days I haven't done any cardio. I think I just need a break for a week or so. The same thing happened to my shoulder last week while doing reverse flys.

Today I did total body day and no cardio..also had the most delightful blueberry muffin with a crumble topping on it. I actually need to steer clear of them at the local grocery store because they are becoming a sin..in Sin City. Also a guy at the gym came up to me and said I had great legs..mind you I was wearing long paints and not matching at all; so I guess I will believe him even though I actually think he came up to me to make small talk and try to hit on me.

19. You have given me a chance to learn things that I didn't know from others.

20. By having people on here with actual supporting information (sites & links) other than just giving out numbers and information with no evidence behind it.

I intended to get on the scale yesterday but completely forgot..I had some cottage cheese this morning prior to this weigh-in so I suppose it could be a tiny bit off but otherwise it is saying 147.8...not too good! I have been sticking to my diet about 90% of the time but never go over calories and always have some sort of deficit. I think I will be putting myself on a harder diet. I don't know? Kinda lost because the period is over and I've been eating really healthy lately. This week I haven't really seen any change in my butt, but my body looks really good for being so heavy.

I was thinking about going off my routine of total body for a week and just doing the cardio on Mon-Wed-Fri, taking Tues-Thurs-Sunday as HIIT days for a week to see if the scale moves next week. This means that I will take Saturday as a rest day; which is today. I'm also going to stick with a harder diet of 1250 calories with a lot of protein shakes...actually the Velocity Diet. http://www.figureathlete.com/readArticle.do?i d=1690447 I will need to get some flax seed and maybe some more peanut butter than I'm all good for the diet.

edit: I don't know what happened to the body of this post.

Original Post by maha-kisa:

Hm, this seems too high to me.

I also have Polar F11, VO2Max = 45, 24 yo, but only 100lbs. I burn 550 kcal in 60 minutes running, with avg heart rate 175.

When you look at File->Daily-> pick that exercise and scroll down twice, it will show the max heart rate during the session and the average. Anything unusual there? Sometimes Polar gets crazy and reads something like 230, which throws off the estimate.

I was under the impression that if your heart rate gets that high that it wasn't good unless you were doing HIIT. That seems really high to keep for 60 min. On a hard cardio session where the machine resistance and incline is maxed out I only get my heart rate up to 160-165 max...but for HIIT I can get it up that high but then that is a total different type of cardio and I do it for 30 seconds and slow way down for 1 minute.

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