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Oh yeah totally, any exercise is better than sitting on the sofa!

MFP is a great piece of kit, scanning is brilllliant. I still think you should keep doing some days of weight training personally. Keep the muscles there, even if yer just maintaining them. (like perhaps doing a deload week. slightly lower weight, MOAR reps, with as little break as possible between. I guess that is kinda cardio, but none o that running stuff lol ) Keeping muscles keeps your BMR high which means your body is burning more calories, which is another plus point for loss. I get away with shitloads more food than I ever did before I started building muscle. The closest thing I do to cardio is swinging a kettlebell -- Today I had a blinding session with PT. Did a stretch with a pair of 2kg dumbells - holding them horizontally at my front, then moving them up (in like a swing motion, holding my arms together, like a lat raise at the front of your body) to above my head then back as far as possible. PT was amazed at how far back I can get my arms, my shoulders have always been super flexible (despite the shape my body is in). Think he knows how to butter me up as he was full of compliments today. But I do deserve at least some of them He showed me the correct form for a snatch from a side view and his arms were only SLIGHTLY angled, about a couple of degrees back. He said that i'm more like 35/40 degrees back! Yet I only feel like I'm doing it right! So I then went and did a load more and kept checking where I was placed was correct. I tend to remember things better from FEELING them than knowing from numbers or instructions. edit: pic of what I mean - add another 35 degrees onto that backwards movement and you have where I can bend to. He said that he would show me what I was doing but he couldn't physically bend that far XD It is giving me a problem as it feels more natural for me in a snatch to throw my arms back as far as possible, and with a heavy weight I will be very unbalanced and fall back. Was working on my form and getting there, really piecing the snatch together. Did a 10kg bar and it was a good job I have lethal grip as it would have bounced off the floor or someones head! Moved onto a 15kg and I feel like the momentum has dampened and I'm not swinging it as far back. Its also funny how the olympic snatch is by FAR easier for me than a regular squat. I can get lower, I can do heavier weights, AND I'm not having any pain compared to the AGONY of pushing back up from a static squat position. It's all about le momentum. I'm going to get a physio to have a look at my knee and see if I can rehab it a bit. PT reckons a meniscus tear is very likely given the nature of the injury. I dont know why but I just LOVE oly snatches. There's something about getting them perfect that fills me with SO MUCH EXCITEMENT. Like I said to my PT, gimme weights over cardio any day, i'm totes in love with em :3

ty mdear <3

recipe plz.

I wish I did enough exercise to afford to eat 3k a day haha :p

I personally think 80% of it is mental. I've only ever pushed myself to complete breaking point once, and it was by running... at weight of 18.5 stone :P Never been on a treadmill since!!

My mum gave me a child friendly book on sex, told me to have a read at it and come back with any questions, I think I was about 6 or 7. My mum is kinda like that though, very open about everything.

Thats my excuse anyway :p

+1.3lbs this week. Went from 50.1% to 49.4% bodyfat. Calculated my body fat from the percentage, and its gone from 126.2 to 125.1 lbs (so thats a drop of 1.1!) Did a farmers walk with 6litres of diet coke in each hand. 6kg? And it was pretty damn easy. Good grip training, think i'm gonna have to implement it into my training. Would do it with kettlebells but they only have one of each weight in my gym. I could easily carry 24kg x2 a good distance (carried 20 and 24 across the gym back to the stand a few times), just a pity they dont have 2 of em!

Just ate an entire tub of Hagen Dazs cookie dough ice cream..... Not sure whats making me sick, the sugar in it or the fact I just caught on to the fact I've consumed OVER ONE THOUSAND CALORIES.

*cough* 10char

perhaps, its just a name so I don't have to give the man in questions real name

Bah I think I really need to kick mr soul mate to the kerb. He's doing me no good mentally even with the positive connection we have. Its just getting the courage to cut ties....

I kinda keep my groups of friends seperate regardless of internet or RL. Like I wouldn't mix my work friends with people I met through my sister, gym people, or people I've met online.

I can't keep the hair on my head, its all falling out in places due to my psoriasis, and always will. Strategic placement.

Any word at yeeeee or have you all given up for 2013 :P The above insane session has resulted in two massive bruises on my hand, one at the bottom of thumb joint (side of hand) and one on the inner aspect of my index finger. Pow. Hurties. I reckon I must've clattered it with the 24kg kettlebell

I would love to go to a crossfit gym, just a pity theres none near me!

Hahahaha! Yes bum pain! And women have to sit down to pee too!!! Just you be grateful!

Grip is one thing ill never have problems with... I've got massive man hands. I've got more problems with callouses than anything else..

I was thinking about getting a pad for my oly too, want to do good mornings, and they look like they'd be bad without protection. I had a maddddd session on tuesday night

Yep same scales, and they aren't even a cheap crappy set!

https://www.fitocracy.com/profile/Hannata/ Theres my profile. Its a website you log your weights/exercise/activity on. Tells you when you get PB's, gives you points for workouts, and you can get badges, achievements and all kinds of things. I think a lot of people here might get a kick out of it, as its quite gaming orientated. It's motivating me to do a bit more just to kick my friends arses and get MOAR POINTS.

Anyone on fitocracy?

I dread the day when I end up having to buy a newer car and its all shit and complicated.... bluh. My fathers car has an onboard computer that keeps firing error messages for NO REASON and every time he takes it in he gets charged ridiculous.com just to hook it up to the system to fix it.... The most complicated thing in my car is the electronic dash and electric windows o_o (which incidentally are starting to fail themselves) (edit: i've a 2001 toyota yaris)

I'm guilty of that too and my car is old and not complicated