[quote]soldog wrote:
AlisaV wrote:
Hm, could try that … playground fun. (Unf. can’t do a single leg squat yet.)
Try partial ROM single leg squats. Stand on a step and let one leg dangle. squat while using the railing for balance. Or something similar out on the playground. It’s time for some creative fun![/quote]
You can also hang on to a pole and use it to pull you out of the bottom of the single-leg squat. Don’t use it on the negative though. The interesting thing is that the strength is usually there (if you can do a lunge you can do a pistol) but the coordination is what needs developing.
I just checked where you started this log and it looks to me like you have exceeded many of your goals. I admire your strength! Maybe you need to make an excel spreadsheet to graph your progress?
Cheers!
6 miles,
3x10 bw rows (first time doing these – at an extreme enough angle, they’re satisfyingly hard)
5/5/3 chinups (bar was too short for me, so let’s call these assisted chins)
20 v-ups
30 single-leg squats to bench
assorted dips
My running path is now equipped, to my surprise, with chinup bars and back hyperextension thingies and hanging leg raise handles and dip handles … it’s a playground for grownups! I feel so provided for.
Actually, more like an upside-down pushup. Hang on to a horizontal bar, facing towards it, with your feet far in front of you so you’re at an angle with the ground. Hang down from your arms, then pull yourself up.
6 30-second sprints, then 30 hanging leg raises, then 6 more sprints.
Been eating weird; my folks are “healthy” eaters in the sense that there’s a lot of fruits and veggies, but no protein to speak of. I think my mom feels guilty about the environmental impact of meat – which makes ethical sense, but from a self-interested perspective it’s kind of a pain.
Here’s a day in the life:
breakfast: cheerios and cherries
lunch: tomato sandwiches and lettuce salad, plum
dinner: eggplant sandwiches, more salad
I at least had a few hardboiled eggs instead of the cheerios, but still, it’s like 20 grams of protein for the whole day. So I’m constantly hungry. (I’m convinced the experts are right and the same number of calories is more filling if you get it from protein.) But I don’t want to be the family glutton. Or the Destroyer of the Earth.
[quote]AlisaV wrote:
6 30-second sprints, then 30 hanging leg raises, then 6 more sprints.
Been eating weird; my folks are “healthy” eaters in the sense that there’s a lot of fruits and veggies, but no protein to speak of. I think my mom feels guilty about the environmental impact of meat – which makes ethical sense, but from a self-interested perspective it’s kind of a pain.
Here’s a day in the life:
breakfast: cheerios and cherries
lunch: tomato sandwiches and lettuce salad, plum
dinner: eggplant sandwiches, more salad
I at least had a few hardboiled eggs instead of the cheerios, but still, it’s like 20 grams of protein for the whole day. So I’m constantly hungry. (I’m convinced the experts are right and the same number of calories is more filling if you get it from protein.) But I don’t want to be the family glutton. Or the Destroyer of the Earth.[/quote]
Yikes, you must be dizzy from hunger. Get some quality whey protein and have 2-3 shakes during the day. I just throw a scoop in with a cup or two of low fat milk and top up with some water if necessary. You can get fancy and add other stuff if you need more calories, protein etc.
[quote]giterdone wrote:
AlisaV wrote:
6 30-second sprints, then 30 hanging leg raises, then 6 more sprints.
Been eating weird; my folks are “healthy” eaters in the sense that there’s a lot of fruits and veggies, but no protein to speak of. I think my mom feels guilty about the environmental impact of meat – which makes ethical sense, but from a self-interested perspective it’s kind of a pain.
Here’s a day in the life:
breakfast: cheerios and cherries
lunch: tomato sandwiches and lettuce salad, plum
dinner: eggplant sandwiches, more salad
I at least had a few hardboiled eggs instead of the cheerios, but still, it’s like 20 grams of protein for the whole day. So I’m constantly hungry. (I’m convinced the experts are right and the same number of calories is more filling if you get it from protein.) But I don’t want to be the family glutton. Or the Destroyer of the Earth.
Yikes, you must be dizzy from hunger. Get some quality whey protein and have 2-3 shakes during the day. I just throw a scoop in with a cup or two of low fat milk and top up with some water if necessary. You can get fancy and add other stuff if you need more calories, protein etc.[/quote]
I want to eat some animals just reading that. I hope your getting other calories. Yikes
Well, on balance, I probably eat enough or too much, but the macro proportions are all wrong.
Today – breakfast was yogurt, berries, an apricot, an egg, and coffee with milk.
Lunch was green salad and 1.5 eggs.
I’m the only one in my family who even eats the eggs.
But meals can be pretty starchy – risotto, or pasta, or bagels. And I honestly haven’t been particularly restrained about it. When I was on my own I could always make a “better” choice if I was hungry, but here, there is what there is. My mom has been shocked by how hungry I get, and essentially thinks it’s just selfishness, though she doesn’t say it in so many words. Maybe I am selfish.
Everyone at home seems to be on a weight-loss kick, and they’re constantly examining each other and making personal comments; I didn’t like that atmosphere when I was chubby, and I still don’t like it now that they’re all “Wow, you’re skinny” – it seems nosy to me. I know I’m too sensitive, but it does grate sometimes.
I’m probably going to perform like crap when I get gym access back in mid-September. Right now I’m trying to avoid getting egregiously fat, & I think I can do that, but I don’t even want to know what kind of lame numbers I’ll be lifting on my first day back. I’ll try to keep an even keel about it.
Alisa, I feel your pain! I visited my mom a couple of months ago and it was much the same. I dropped weight rapidly trying to eat clean and had to go out and hit the grocery store and fill my moms fridge. She is avidly anti-fat because of the heart attack tendencies in our family so it was a challenge to get her to be okay with me eating 4-6 eggs a day and red meat. After a few days I showed her my shrinking abdomen and said “Look! I need more food!! Let me eat it for crying out loud!!”
I hear ya on the personal comments too. It was good and bad, but honestly more bad; It’s nice to get compliments at times, but then there’s the backhanded nasty ‘compliments’ that are never fun.
I’m probably going to perform like crap when I get gym access back in mid-September. Right now I’m trying to avoid getting egregiously fat, & I think I can do that, but I don’t even want to know what kind of lame numbers I’ll be lifting on my first day back. I’ll try to keep an even keel about it.
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Alisa, I don’t know if this will help but have you read any of the articles about how sometimes a big break will make you come back stronger? Maybe your body will treat this as a recovery or a shakeup. At our dojang we have seen people take a month or two off completely and come back stronger and faster than they have ever been. Good luck!
Arachne: well I hope so!
Sluicy: er… not really. Protein would go over like a lead balloon (it’s “not food” and I think they’d see it as tantamount to steroids.) Eating something different than everyone else – I don’t have the nerve to do it, and I know they wouldn’t like it. I think I am being walked on a little.
I fought with my parents as a teenager, not that they’re bad people, just that I’m a bit of a rebel. And since I don’t want to go through that every time I come home – it’s embarrassing – I’ve just determined that it’s their house and while I’m here I’m going to accommodate them.
[quote]AlisaV wrote:
Arachne: well I hope so!
Sluicy: er… not really. Protein would go over like a lead balloon (it’s “not food” and I think they’d see it as tantamount to steroids.) Eating something different than everyone else – I don’t have the nerve to do it, and I know they wouldn’t like it. I think I am being walked on a little.
I fought with my parents as a teenager, not that they’re bad people, just that I’m a bit of a rebel. And since I don’t want to go through that every time I come home – it’s embarrassing – I’ve just determined that it’s their house and while I’m here I’m going to accommodate them.[/quote]
Alisa, everyone fights with their parents as a teenager. Wanting to make up for the pain you may have caused during that immature (and I mean this in a purely developmental sense) stage of adulthood is fine, but you and your parents need to allow you to grow as an individual and practice your own habits and beliefs, nutritional or otherwise, without holding those years of first tentative “rebellion” against you. Because it sounds like your all are doing that. Seriously, can you logically equate your teenage rebellious expressions to making a decision to eat more protein because you know your body needs it and it sustains very good, mentally and physically healthy, individual goals you have set for yourself?
If more is going on that I don’t understand, I apologise. But I do know what it’s like to have a veil of guilt cast by a possibly, possibly not well meaning but far too emotionally controlling mother.