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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
I'm entering my third week without eating sugar. This is just about the obviously sugary stuff, like sodas (replaced for sugar free versions), candies, and also refined sugar I used to add in juices, cocoa, etc. So I'm probably eating sugar in savory stuff, like chips and bread.
The reason for that change is that it might help with my tinnitus, but it is obviously beneficial overall. My girlfriend is gonna learn how to make sugar free cake.
Sucralose is the best artificial sweetener for my taste, the only without a hint of bitter after taste. It resembles sugar the most.
I cheated once last week, ate my favorite candy, but other than that I'm solid. In the first week the craving was almost overwhelming. Right now I still want sugar, but the craving is much weaker. I have, on occasion, replaced sweets with other kinds of reward, such as savory foods, videogames, watching TV, and sex. Not a bad deal if you ask me. If I keep this up for another week or two, I may very well overcome this addiction for good.
I’m lifting again, finally! My injured hand is no longer injured. I’ve also been biking regularly and generally being more active. Did a couple of meal preps early in the week, which has freed up my time around lunch and dinner since I’m not cooking or waiting for somebody else to cook.
Glad to hear your injured hand is !injured :)
Could you elaborate on the meal prep? I've always wanted to follow something like that
Thank you!
I made tempeh bowls for lunch and chili mac for dinner. Since I only made enough for the week, I kept them in the fridge. They take about a minute to heat up in the microwave. For the tempeh bowls, I sliced up the avocado separately so it didn’t get warm since I like it cool. :)
Oooh that is one nice website, thanks for introducing me to it! I'm gonna give the tempeh bowls a try this week :)
Started up on a new program yesterday with my weight lifting. The trainer showed me a few exercises to gently target muscles around my knees as a warm up, which I'm excited to try... I hurt my right knee in 2017ish, and it acts up with deep bends. I can do some squats here and there, but if I push through even a little discomfort on it, something gives and I just lose my knee privileges for the rest of the day. I would love to be able to do a lunge again. We'll see.
I've had nothing but salads for dinner for the last month or so, aside from yesterday, when I had noodles, and I am up like... 3lbs instantly this morning. I know it's probably just salt or my period or something but sometimes I am bummed out by having to take care of this dumb squishy body.
One good thing: I've got some new muscle definition in my hamstrings, specifically the back of my legs right under the butt. I'm not a thin woman so it's nice to be able to see new muscle. I want to upgrade my deadlifts soon (right now I'm only doing kettlebell deadlifts and only 52kg), but I think my grip strength needs to catch up a bit first. I feel like I'm gonna be stuck here for a bit so I'm going to just try to do more reps and do more tempo/controlled motions.
Recently started strength training at the gym. I have no prior experience so I'm just going off of some random YouTube videos (not the best idea I know!), but all I'm doing are bicep curls and bench-pressing with dumbbells. If anyone has any recommendations for any good resources that will help me with posture or targeting a specific muscle group, I'm all ears!
If your gym has a personal training option, maybe take a session with them and they can give you a quick demo of machines and different workouts. You can do a lot though with dumbbells.
My typical upper body strength training involves a mix of:
And then whatever machines are available at the gym. For personal resources, I watched these two courses on Wondrium and they contained a lot of good info getting started with health and fitness:
Well, you have to ask yourself what your goals are. If you're just lifting for aesthetics, then working with machines and dumbbells is a good way to go (though totally outside of my wheelhouse). If you want to build a foundation of functional strength, I would recommend looking into barbell training. I had a good experience following Rippetoe's Starting Strength program, but Stronglifts and other 5x5 programs also come recommended.