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 Hello, my name is Fraction and I will be your host for this log. Stats - Female 5'3'' 126lbs Fitocracy | MyFitnessPal There isn't much in the way of backstory to tell. I decided pretty recently to get healthier, and I started cutting out/slowing down things I was doing before. I used to easily chomp a packet of biscuits in a sitting, just from boredom, and I was drinking 1.5 to 2 bottles of lemonade or diet pepsi a day. I've been eating healthier for a while though, but now I'm kicking it up a little more. I joined Fitocracy and my local gym today, started tracking my food yesterday, and so I thought today would be a good day to start a log.  My plan of action is pretty much the title. I swam tonight for the first time in like ten years and had a blast. I like running too but I keep getting shin splints, so I might change to some other cardio thing (my induction day at the gym is tomorrow, and I'll be checking out all of the things and lifting all of the weights). I will also be walking my dogs forever and ever. Ideally, I'd like to lose weight, but it's more important to me to really get healthier and have muscles.  - walk 100 miles by the last day in May.Secondary goals - Will be updated after I have more of an idea about what I want to do at the gym. Watch this space! "Before" pics:  
Fraction fucked around with this message at Apr 2, 2013 around 09:39 |
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Okay let's start. Workout Summary Barbell Squat 44lb x5 Barbell Deadlift 44lb x10 66lb x5 66lb x10 (my palms hurt more than my muscles did) 44lb x10 Pull ups 2x 2x Swimming 20 min (roughly) Walking 0:58:37 | 2.7 miles | 21:56 min/mi | flat 1:03:44 | 2.9 miles | 22:02 min/mi | flat 1:15:17 | 4.7 miles | 15:59 min/mi | light hills Food Summary Breakfast Jordans Country Crisp Flame Raisins, 100g Seedless Raisins, 15g Fresh Semi-Skimmed Milk, 200ml Omega 3 Fish Oil Capsule x1 Lunch Mini Frikadellan Meatballs x2 Green Pepper, 25g Red Pepper, 25g Sweet Potato fries, 130g Fried onion x 0.5 Bacon x 1/4 of a slice Dinner *Asda deep pan Ham and Pineapple pizza, 125g Snacks Medium banana x1 Tea: 3 mugs OVERALL 1,320 calories 194 carbs 45 fat 38 protein 185 sodium 86 sugar * My housemate bought me this pizza yesterday after I told her about my diet plan. 
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| # ? Mar 20, 2013 23:09 |
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So, you already have a glorious bikini body  I'm excited for you to lift weights!! You'll look even way more awesome afterwards  Why not a lift toxx?
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| # ? Mar 20, 2013 23:52 |
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Seconding swyys 100%. You have a drat good foundation here, along with some of the best training partners: dogs! Looking forward to see your logs on Fitocracy.
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| # ? Mar 21, 2013 00:39 |
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Thanks guys!  swyys posted:Why not a lift toxx? I'm planning to lift a weight today at the gym, but first I need to see how much I can lift there atm, then I'll probably toxx myself.
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Fraction posted:
The best friend.
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| # ? Mar 21, 2013 14:59 |
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I am envious of you already, you should definitely hit the gym and lift some heavy things. You are at a perfect place to get hardbody as hell. Good luck!
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Danica! posted:The best friend. I think you misspelled 'worst'. Sophia posted:I am envious of you already, you should definitely hit the gym and lift some heavy things. You are at a perfect place to get hardbody as hell. Good luck! I have done this today  Thanks!So today was my gym induction. I was supposed to only be shown cardio equipment today (  ) but I pressed the guy into showing me the weight stuff too. I could have done more than this but tomorrow is my long day (out of the house for university 7:30am-7:30pm) and I didn't want to die forever. I also failed at breakfast, by making scrambled eggs and then eating 1/3 of it because scrambled eggs are still gross, so I felt hungry and a little faint for most of the morning.Oh and apparently I have 26.1% body fat. Not really sure what that means though  Workout Cycling: 0:15:00 || 1 mi || flat Walking: 0:41:16 || 2.5 mi || 16:52 min/mi || flat 0:52:15 || 2.4 mi || 21:39 min/mi || flat Lat Pulldown: 57 lb x 5 reps 57 lb x 12 reps 72 lb x 12 reps 72 lb x 8 reps 57 lb x 12 reps 72 lb x 12 reps 72 lb x 8 reps 57 lb x 15 reps Leg Press: 60 lb x 5 reps 80 lb x 12 reps 100 lb x 12 reps 100 lb x 12 reps 120 lb x 12 reps 120 lb x 12 reps 100 lb x 12 reps 100 lb x 12 reps 80 lb x 12 reps Machine Chest Fly (Pec Deck): 18 lb x 8 reps 18 lb x 5 reps 12 lb x 8 reps Elliptical Trainer: 0:05:00 || Easy Food 
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| # ? Mar 21, 2013 18:17 |
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Fraction posted:Oh and apparently I have 26.1% body fat. Not really sure what that means though It means walking 6 miles a day isn't just exercising your dog, you're in good shape before you even start. Eating at a deficit slows down the muscle building. I would suggest you just throw the scale out the window, learn some healthy, higher-protein and fiber recipes that you enjoy and lift the weights. At the minimum, eat maintenance emphasizing protein on the days you lift. Also, more dog pictures!
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Eat more protein?  I'm not even trying to eat at a deficit - this is just normal food for me really, except I've cut out my crazed snacking between meals (somewhat). If I'd had proper breakfast this morning I'd have been over my cals. Advance warning: tomorrow is gonna really suck. I will log all of the suckiness, and try to minimise it but there will be no exercise.  ps dogpix   
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Feeling good this morning (I limited myself at the gym so I didn't feel like death for my long day), except my pec muscles (?) are really sore. That's my own fault though; I was pulling '3' marked weights on the other machines real easily, so I started with the 3 mark (18lbs) on my first try and then kept at it because giving up sucks. My butt hurts a little too  Walking Toxx 84.8 miles to go! Fraction fucked around with this message at Mar 22, 2013 around 14:29 |
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 I knew today would suck (long uni day & company tonight), but I actually didn't do too badly. I'm pretty full so I'll probably not eat anything else tonight, just drink all the water. Exercise = about forty minutes walking to and from and around campus. I haven't logged it on fitocracy because . My friends are sleeping round but I have already warned them that I will be abandoning them in the morning (before they wake) to gym forever.
Fraction fucked around with this message at Mar 22, 2013 around 21:44 |
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 Snow? Bed? Social life? gently caress that it's gym time.  WORKOUT Ab Crunch Machine: 32 lb x 5 reps 50 lb x 8 reps 40 lb x 8 reps Lat Pulldown: 57 lb x 12 reps 72 lb x 12 reps 72 lb x 8 reps 57 lb x 12 reps 57 lb x 20 reps 57 lb x 12 reps 57 lb x 12 reps Leg Press: 60 lb x 12 reps 80 lb x 12 reps 100 lb x 12 reps 120 lb x 12 reps 140 lb x 8 reps 140 lb x 12 reps 140 lb x 12 reps 120 lb x 12 reps 80 lb x 12 reps 100 lb x 12 reps 120 lb x 12 reps 140 lb x 12 reps 160 lb x 12 reps 100 lb x 12 reps 120 lb x 12 reps Wide-Grip Lat Pulldown: 48 lb x 12 reps 57 lb x 8 reps Machine Dips: 47 lb x 12 reps 58 lb x 12 reps 75 lb x 12 reps 75 lb x 5 reps Machine Chest Fly (Pec Deck): 7 lb x 12 reps 12 lb x 8 reps Machine Shoulder (Military) Press: 49 lb x 12 reps 55 lb x 8 reps Dumbbell Bicep Curl: 6 lb x 8 reps 10 lb x 4 reps Pull-Up: 1 reps Inner thigh Machine* 22 lb x 12 reps 30 lb x 12 reps 22 lb x 12 reps * This machine isn't on fitocracy, for some reason. Basically you squeeze plates together with your thighs. It sounds a lot easier than it is, though (or maybe I was just cocky about it, idk). Weekend mornings (i.e. at opening time) are awesome. The gym was empty apart from a dude on a treadmill, so for about half an hour I had all of the equipment to myself. In future I need to do barbell stuff before I do lat pulldowns. I was intending to do some squats and deadlifts but I could barely pick up the dumbbells for bicep curls. 
Fraction fucked around with this message at Mar 23, 2013 around 10:21 |
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Fraction posted:Inner thigh Machine* This would be called hip adduction, and I bothered to log into fitocracy for once to check that it is in fact on there. Everyone knows what you're talking about, in conjunction with hip abduction we call them the good-girl/bad-girl machines (among other names). For reference even maxing out those machines would only take intermediate strength at most (for guys at least), so that probably was as easy as it sounds; that number should skyrocket to be indicative of increasing lower-body strength in compound movements.
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I was probably just over confident about them then V V I'll add em to my fitocracy later though, thanks!
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I always found the adduction machine to be difficult, even back when I was lifting heavy regularly. The abduction machine was much easier, but both are kind of crappy workouts. If they have a cable machine where you can do the same movement standing up (one leg at a time, like this) it will give you more bang for your workout buck. Nice job getting to the gym in all of that, though!
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Question: the only adduction or abduction machine thing I can find on fitocracy is the cable hip adduction. Should I just use that to log inner thigh and outer thigh muscle stuff?  Thanks Sophia! I'll try looking at th cable stuff. I'm a lil wary of it.
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If you don't feel comfortable with the cable stuff, then using the machines is probably a good starting point. Maybe eventually you can try out the cable for like, one set every other workout and see how you feel about it. My log probably shows I'm a big "get in the water very slowly and get used to the temperature" advocate!
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| # ? Mar 23, 2013 13:51 |
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Fraction posted:Question: the only adduction or abduction machine thing I can find on fitocracy is the cable hip adduction. Should I just use that to log inner thigh and outer thigh muscle stuff? By the way, a little tip since I saw you started out with the ab crunch machine on your latest workout: try to stick ab work at the end instead, you will need a strong and rested core for best results on compounds and presses. Also, I have to say: dem dawgs.
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Sophia: I will probably try the cables sometime! On Monday the gym team are devising a plan? personally for me or something, so I'll ask about the cables then. Arthur: thanks, found it on fitocracy! I was typing adduction and abduction, yeah. I will try the ab thing again, I mostly gave up on it because I found it kind of boring. But I just love leg presses and lat pulldowns, so. Walking Done Walking done today: 1hr 8min - 1.8 miles 57 min - 1.6 miles I didn't get out much today, because of the dreadful snow. It was slow going too, as you can see.  Walking Toxx 81.6 miles to go! ETA: dog.   
Fraction fucked around with this message at Mar 23, 2013 around 17:18 |
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Today's workout was supposed to just be cardio. Cardio is boring. Cardio sucks WORKOUT Elliptical Trainer: 0:10:00 || Moderate Barbell Squat: 44 lb x 5 reps 50 lb x 5 reps 55 lb x 5 reps 61 lb x 5 reps* Barbell Deadlift: 55 lb x 5 reps 66 lb x 5 reps 72 lb x 5 reps* * Personal best or w/e SO okay I've done some lifting of heavy poo poo and I want to give myself a couple? of lifting-related toxxes, but I have no idea what to toxx myself to do. Any ideas?
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lookit dat log god drat _____________/  poo poo, I need to up the ante re: squats and deadlifts. You're gonna outlift me at this pace  I did the ExRx Novice Strength Standards for squats and deadlifts as my Toxx. Maybe you could try one of those as a Toxx?
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| # ? Mar 24, 2013 09:51 |
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Cat pix itt Thanks Pollyanna, I could definitely try that! I'd like to toxx myself at leg presses and lat pulldowns too (because they are hilariously fun to me ). Not sure how long it'll take me to get to the novice levels though; ideas? I'd like to have it close enough to motivate me but not impossibly near.
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Fraction posted:Thanks Pollyanna, I could definitely try that! I'd like to toxx myself at leg presses and lat pulldowns too (because they are hilariously fun to me This will let you calculate your exact level cut-offs, and then it is just up to you to decide which lift(s) you want to focus on. Going by the info you have posted in the thread so far you are quite a way off, but you are still just getting started. I would suggest waiting until you have a few weeks of lifting under your belt so you know where your current limits are and have a rough estimate of your one-rep max.
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Thanks Arthur, that website is pretty cool. I should probably work on bench presses more... () I'll lift some more and see how I progress, then toxx myself. Speaking of toxxes: Walking done today 0:40:12 || 1.8 mi || flat || ICE ICE ICE Walking Toxx 79.8 miles to go!
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Also, you probably already know and do this, but on the good girl machine, I've discovered that I can give myself some wicked DOMS by making sure I act like my feet are completely dead, if not non-existent, and focus very carefully on pushing only with my knees/thighs.
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Thanks for the advice, Voodoo! I've only done the inner thigh thing once, and that was a couple days ago so I don't remember how I did it, haha. My thighs have been sore since though (as well as my butt all day today, woo squats) so I probably did it right. Tomorrow is my gym plan thing and I'm curious as to what they say. I'll upload today's food tomorrow. I've been feeling bleh all day and snacked to make myself feel better. It didn't work. I still want ice cream My newly sore/swollen throat is begging for it.
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You are off to such an amazing start, great work! I hope your throat stops hurting, that's never fun ever. Your dogs are too hilarious, I love the little guy in his snow cave! You have a fantastic body and you are going to look amazing when you add some muscle, so go get it gurl! Following for imminent awesome.
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Thank you NCP My throat is lovely and swollen today. I've been drinking all of the water but it's still not going away. I get it once every couple years for a few days; it's like the dangly thing between my tonsils (so precise) is all swollen, and every time I swallow it feels like it's going down my throat and then coming back up. Everything (upper back, thighs, bum, etc) aches today. I think this is my punishment for going 'heh, cardio? gently caress that gonna lift as well.' Today will definitely be cardio-only. Lifting is just so much more fun!
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Fraction posted:it's like the dangly thing between my tonsils (so precise) is all swollen It's called the uvula!  Which is maybe useful for Scrabble, I guess?
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Fraction posted:Today's workout was supposed to just be cardio. Cardio is boring. Cardio sucks you're hella cool. so're your dogs.
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potatocubed posted:It's called the uvula! It sounds kind of awkward to say, 'my uvula is swollen'... ixo posted:you're hella cool. so're your dogs. Thanks! Yesterday's food:  I ate all of the biscuits And gently caress cereal. All dem calories.
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I got my ~personal gym program~ Every gym day (3x a week): Warm up: Upright Bike (10min) Main CV: Elliptical Trainer (10min) Treadmill (15min) Resistance: Chest Press (3 sets of 15 reps)* Lat Pulldown (3 sets of 15 reps)^ Leg Press (3 sets of 15 reps)^ Ab Crunch Machine (3 sets of 15 reps) Cool Down Recumbent Bike (5 min) * I think this is the pec machine? I dunno. ^  SO each gym day I'm supposed to do forty minutes of cardio, I only get to do a few reps of my drat favourite machines, and I don't get to touch the free weights. Kill me now, goons. I tried explaining that I want to do three days of cardio, three days of weights/machines a week and the gym guy was really firm that I have to stick to this plan for a fortnight.he doesn't know I have a barbell at home...  TODAY'S WORKOUT Walking: 0:53:27 || 2.2 mi || 24:35 min/mi || flat 0:40:46 || 1.7 mi || 23:18 min/mi || flat Elliptical Trainer: 0:11:00 || Moderate 0:10:04 || Moderate 0:10:01 || Moderate WALKING TOXX 75.9 miles to go!
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I'd feel so guilty doing cardio without my dog.
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| # ? Mar 25, 2013 18:38 |
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OP, don't let anyone discourage you from lifting weights. Lifting makes you awesome and gives you a great shape, plus it's actually much more efficient than cardio for burning calories and toning up. Don't worry, you won't turn into a she-hulk. I started lifting a while back and my body has never looked better, and I rarely do cardio.
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Ikantski posted:I'd feel so guilty doing cardio without my dog. I'm planning to start running again with my dog once the snow melts, since my shins seem to have sorted themselves out. If my form is the problem like I assume (when I run I overstride and heel strike, which I've now corrected) it should be better this time. This will be on top of the gym stuff. Terriers love to run script kitty posted:OP, don't let anyone discourage you from lifting weights. Lifting makes you awesome and gives you a great shape, plus it's actually much more efficient than cardio for burning calories and toning up. Thanks for this. I definitely don't worry about turning into a she-hulk. I'm going to ask tomorrow if I have to do the program or if I can do my own thing, and I'll be firm about the fact that I want to choose my own plan. I don't know if the gym program is something I *have* to do to be able to work out there though.
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| # ? Mar 25, 2013 20:33 |
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I very much doubt you HAVE to do their program, I've never heard of a gym insisting on such a thing. In my opinion while there are lots of fun forms of cardio, none of them involve gym machines. Your dogs are adorable.
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Fraction posted:I'm going to ask tomorrow if I have to do the program or if I can do my own thing, and I'll be firm about the fact that I want to choose my own plan. I don't know if the gym program is something I *have* to do to be able to work out there though. YES PLEASE! Definitely ask, and definitely stick to your guns. Unless it's specifically a personal training gym and you signed an agreement saying you'd follow their specific plan, I'm pretty sure they can't actually demand that you do what they advise, since you're paying for the use of the gym (if you are paying; sorry if you already addressed this. I glanced back over previous posts and didn't see...). But honestly, if they're adamant that you do their plan for a fortnight and agree to let you off leash after that, it's barely any skin off your nose to go ahead and do it. I'll be eagerly awaiting your trip report!
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500 calories of raisins what the gently caress...?
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