peeperjj's Journal, 13 July 2019

You hoover so near your goal mark, it's remarkable! Hope I'm even half this good at maintaining once I get there. :) 

I hope you don’t mind, but I took a screenshot of your workout. You are way ahead of me on everything, but I want to catch up! How long have you been lifting for? How did you learn to do everything? I’m kind of intimidated by the free weights right now and I’m just doing the machines, but I want to do them. Any suggestions would be appreciated. 😊🎈 

LZ wanna know my secret? I eat whatever I wish in moderation now. That’s it. If we go to a restaurant I then have to plan the next meal as a protein heavy, lower calorie meal. Basically just like on restriction except I can play with 1500-1800 kcal rather than 1200-1400. You’ll do great when you get there! I started ‘practicing’ early. Hmmm maybe 125ish. I just got lucky and got flu A and dropped 3# from that. Not sure how as my dr said it shouldn’t have happened and perhaps it was water. I ate less but still 1000-1200 kcal range for 3 days. I shouldn’t have lost 1#/day on that. 🤷‍♀️  

Sure laraae! That’s totally fine. I did the livestrong program for 12 weeks last summer. It’s a class for cancer survivors. They started us super slow at like 10-15# on machines and showed us basic movements. Basically demonstrated each machine once lol. They then had us take a class once a week to show us what each was about.  

Back then I also went a 3rd and sometimes 4th time each week. We were limited to 15-45 minutes in a treadmill or bike then 2 upper and 2 lower body machines. I went faster as the other ladies were 55&75 and I was 37. I could get an extra 2 machines done in the same time. No real set workout then. NOW I have one. Basically whichever machine is free is where we start and we work through 10-12 that we like. Then some days we go to the bench or dumbbells too. We started back on April 4th. So I’ve had 14 weeks in this go around. Last time was 14-15 but we had 2-3 weeks off in there plus the beginning and ending testing.  

Start sow and you’ll do great Laraae! The weights still intimidate me if many people are there. Start with the 3-5# or whatever is lowest. Tuck your elbows at your side with hands out in front (L shape to arms). Bring the weight up and back down and that’s a curl. I do both arms at once them immediately go into what’s called a hammer curl I think. Basically turn your hands and weights like they were standing on end then bring them up to shoulder again while keeping your elbows close to your sides. Another ‘easy’ one is to take your arms from your side and bring them up to shoulder level straight out. You’ll look like a scarecrow lol. Do this with the lightest possible weights at first! I do those at home occasionally but not often as my shoulders lock up. It’s an easy movement but hard as in stress to the muscles. I need to memorize the names! Peak at the other women there. If the machines face them then you can easily tuck your chin a bit like your looking at a spot in the floor near them and raise your eyes a bit to watch. It helped me not be so nervous! I don’t watch the men cause some smile and give me a look haha. It’s like yo, this is my hubby. I’m just watching your form!’ Haha.  

I have to remember to not get dehydrated, too. 

Oh great advice once again Chris! And thanks for the names. I was doing them properly then but hubby said do do the L shape and not lower weights below my waist. Perhaps I misunderstood. That happens often lol.  

Ok—I can do these 3–and I’ll google “goblet squat”. I’ve been doing squats my PT (Physical Therapist) was having me do. I’ll see if there’s a difference between them and “goblet” ones. And thanks, again. You guys are the best! 👍🏻 

If I remember correctly, goblet squats use weights. You bring a dumbbell from hip to chest as you go into your squat. Butt down weight up lol.  

I say chest because it’s not fun smacking your chin ;).  

I can do goblet squats! Did a few while watching the video on bodybuilding.com. That is a website I had fun in the other day just going through some of the different things. An hour was gone before I knew it! 

And my chin was safe, Peeps! 👍🏻