While I was typing that post ^^^, I am thinking that too much exercise is just as much of an issue for you. I remember way back in the day, some freshman (I was the upperclassman he “looked up” to) came to me in a panic because he was afraid his girlfriend might be pregnant due to her missing her period; turns out she was just “overly exercised” due to being on the crew team. I’ve heard this type of story more than once now. (as a old dude, I hesitate to mention this because I know diddly except for a couple data points)
So you have another avenue of attack -reduce time spent exercising.
To be fair, I think it’s important that we all accept that @anna_5588 probably knows all of the information we have given her, lest we all tirade on her log haranguing her.
If I was her, going to these doctor’s appointments, or reading what everyone here has written, some part of my psyche would’ve ventured to “what if this is the reality, that the problems are indeed a consequence of my actions”. But maybe I’m wrong, or presumptuous, or naive to belive that we can all be that alike as people that we’d all go there mentally.
To talk about it in a more abstract sense, I’m sure you or someone you know, or a person you’ve read about or seen a documentary of has exhibited some behaviour that is to their detriment. And, at some point you have come to learn that they knew. They knew of their problems, and they were actively thinking about their own role in that. Maybe they questioned themselves, or didn’t themselves believe in the facade they’d present to downplay the problems to their surroundings and yet continue to maintain that same facade while these processes reigned internal. Monologues. Emotions. Inner turmoil.
As much time as this might be on one of our minds she’s living through it actively right now, and so it is unjust to use words as easy, quotation marks or no.
Framed differently, there is no argument that your post doesn’t offer another valid venue for progress inline with her stated goal as it certainly does, but I don’t think the word easy belongs in the conversation.
Had you instead said, “would you find it more objectionable to reduce your activity levels?” or “which option would you be most comfortable with, reducing activity levels or increasing caloric intake or perhaps a combination of both?” I would have written just about fuck all of this but now here we are. Communicating with someone should be for their benefit, and if we all paid a little extra attention to our audience other than writing, speaking, and expressing ourselves primarily as a means to voice what we think needs to be said moreso than backtracking from what it is we are actually trying to communicate and formulating ourselves from there I think we’d all have slightly more enriching exchanges. They’d demand more effort, but maybe it’d be worth it?
@Pinkylifting
I failed all my squat singles at 100%
Idk what’s up- I took yesterday off, slept great and felt great The weight felt great on my back too but I got nailed in the hole
I’m really frustrated because it feel like I haven’t made any progress despite working my butt off!
Lol have you not been paying attention for the last 100 posts? Less cardio more food = hormones good AND weights on the bar come back up out of the hole.
Too much conditioning, not enough food. You are already very strong for your size, if you want to continue making progress then you have to focus on strength. Otherwise you become a “jack of all trades, master of none”.
Look at some female powerlifters on Instagram. Except for the heavyweight ones, they aren’t fat or out of shape. Gain weight. End of story.
I am not being smartassed or sarcastic here, but EVERY single person you have asked for advice on this forum has told you the same thing… EAT MORE FOOD!
We all can’t be wrong.
You wouldn’t ask somebody to build a skyscraper and then hand them a box of tinker toys. It’s impossible. And that is exactly what you are asking your body to do. It will not work. You have to give it enough material to work with. No more, no less. Just because you “want” something doesn’t mean you can conjure it out of thin air. That is not how the universe works.
None of these strenght cycles doesn’t coincide with the female menstrual cycle. As far as you are “normal” woman and train without REDs, it’s hard to expect that the 1RM day of the program will maches with your personal peak of strenght. In other hand simple things like bracing and keeping intra abdominal pressure in 1 RM on squats are harder than usual or even impossible in late luteal phase, when your internal organs are swollen or painful.
It’s really important in my oppinion because you not only want to be in good shape, but you want to beat some all time records in female powerlifting and can’t count on chance.
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