are you having squat kneee caving trouble? that is annoying!
i do the whole logical thing of trying to spread your feet apart blah blha blha, but for nerdo me, i find when i clench my abs and try and sit super upright it helps, my legs take care of themselves. then the next set i might cave again if i’m in la-la-land.
i’m lopsided too on my squat lift off leg, my left leg’s hip flexor is much tigher then righty’s. lame!
Thanks!
Quick upper body day:
bench: 10@45, 10@65, 5@85, 3@95, fail/fail@105 (butt popping up. Goddamnit I could do this two days ago!)
floor press: 10@45, 10@65, 5@85, 2@95
arnold presses: 10@17.5’s, 4x8@20’s
lat pulldowns: 10@50, 10@75, 3x5@87.5
Alisa, I am fighting knee cave with everything I’ve got. Take heart: you can’t possibly have worse knee cave than I do!
Besides form, form, form, I’m doing single leg work, squats with a band around my knees and endless abductor exercises.
Honestly, it sucks to be a knee caver. grrrr.
Where did the short cards go?
6 mile run.
Missed a few days, feel like grease-coated poo, gonna remedy that.
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
Alisa, I am fighting knee cave with everything I’ve got. Take heart: you can’t possibly have worse knee cave than I do!
Besides form, form, form, I’m doing single leg work, squats with a band around my knees and endless abductor exercises.
Honestly, it sucks to be a knee caver. grrrr.[/quote]
I’m going to second the single leg work sugesstion… Bulgarian Dumbell Squats, Split Squats, Single Leg Dumbell RDLs, Reverse Lunges… There’s not much that makes me feel weaker than single leg work.
completely out of control this week with time, moods, food, exercise…
I shouldn’t be, I don’t actually have that much on my plate, but I get overwhelmed VERY easily. I’ve been a screaming/despairing maniac all week.
Also if I ever want to make love again I’ll have to lose some weight (and also meet a guy, but lose weight first)…
[quote]AlisaV wrote:
completely out of control this week with time, moods, food, exercise…
I shouldn’t be, I don’t actually have that much on my plate, but I get overwhelmed VERY easily. I’ve been a screaming/despairing maniac all week.
Also if I ever want to make love again I’ll have to lose some weight (and also meet a guy, but lose weight first)…[/quote]
Dear lord please tell me you aren’t serious.
totally serious. why?
Is this the fatty that we are talking about here?
well played Git:)
6 mile run today.
[quote]AlisaV wrote:
totally serious. why?[/quote]
[quote]giterdone wrote:
Is this the fatty that we are talking about here?
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Look I would never condescend to you preaching the particulars of what your body should or should not look like. Everyone has their own standards and I think most of us that do what we do will maybe NEVER be totally satisfied… BUT… to think that you have a significant amount of weight to lose (FROM WHERE?) or that you need to lose weight before you date someone? well… Lets just say I strongly disagree.
I think you’d be hard pressed to find ANYONE that thinks your body is anything but totally beautiful.
Aw. Thanks. For context, I am a grad student at a fancy-schmancy school, which means the girls are tiny. And, me being me, I look in the mirror and mostly see “ew, why don’t I have abs.” (it doesn’t help that I am round-faced and so I look basically like a pumpkinhead in candid photos.)
Getting back on the food-tracking wagon:
breakfast: whole wheat bagel, peanut butter, latte
lunch: roast beef, fried egg, raw broccoli and tomatoes
dinner: scoop of tuna salad, lettuce and green peppers
calories: 1342, p/f/c: 88.2/71.8/68.0
notes: I don’t expect to keep cals so low. This is what happens when I don’t eat a ton of sugary and starchy junk – there’s just not a lot of other food left. For the past month there has been a lot of pizza and cookies and so on. Get rid of that and hey look, I’m only eating 1342 calories! Probably I want to eat more of the “good” stuff. Also: because of cost/practicality constraints, breakfast will be a starchy meal for the next few years. Generally, except for weekend treats, this means plain oatmeal.
Nothing wrong with oatmeal for breakfast! Also, it’s better to have low calorie intake from good foods, than higher cals from garbage food. Finally, regarding the tiny girl around you and you “not having abs”, I would bet that your body is 100000x better/sexier/hotter/stronger/etc. than EVERY SINGLE other girl there. Don’t ever think otherwise.
kthx
Keep kickin’ ass.
Ink
[quote]AlisaV wrote:
Aw. Thanks. For context, I am a grad student at a fancy-schmancy school, which means the girls are tiny.[/quote]
Alisa, I am going to give you props for being such an amazing, intelligent, high achieving woman. BUT I think its time for some tough love. Seeing what you’ve accomplished thus far I know you’re up to the challenge.
Don’t you think its time you start questioning WHY you feel so inadequate. Maybe I am totally misreading you, but it seems that you have made no progress regarding your insecurity issues, and I still detect self loathing in some of your posts. Is it because you are truly unhappy with the way you look, or is it because you allow yourself to be pressured by societal norms/the widely accepted feminine ideal? If you want to look strong, muscular, and off the chain, pursue that goal relentlessly. If you feel that a more petite look is your aesthetic preference, than do things conducive to that goal. I think the biggest step towards achieving what you desire is first defining it.
Once you are completely on board mentally with what you want to do, the path you need to take will become illuminated and it will be easier and more natural for you to establish the habits you need to reach your goals. Comparing yourself to people with different goals than yourself will definitely undermine all of this. Its like being a classically trained operatic vocalist and then wondering why you suck at playing the violin. I’m not saying you should stop being hard on yourself, but I am saying to define your standards so you can at least be hard on yourself in a rational, constructive manner. Also, give yourself some credit already. You deserve to be comfortable in your own skin.
Well, generally, I want to be more on the athletic/muscular side. Why? Because I know I can make progress in that direction (I’m already closer to that ideal than I was before I started lifting) and because being strong comes with neat benefits like being able to pick up really heavy objects. PR’s are fun. Just trying to be petite has neither of those advantages.
A little self-loathing is basically built in. I’m a girl. Business as usual.
Your logic is solid, though.
By the way: there’s a meet on Nov. 19th and the PL team is going. I’m not remotely putting up good enough numbers, but I’m toying with the idea of competing, for the practice and for fun. I’ll see what Boss Boy says.
I have oatmeal for breakfast every day. keeps me in my happy place.
wise owl is wise.
Figure out what you truly want to practice constructive criticism from which you can build.
I know what you mean though but trust us when we say you have a fine ass and finding someone to share it with should not pending on losing weight. you just have to meet the right people. You should have seen how flustered I was when I met a few guys who like a stronger package. Their googly eyes left me flabbergasted - but more importantly reminded me that there is no predefined image of beauty. there is the crap the media throws out, yes. But that is not the holey grail of perfection.
In my opinion you should do the meet for the fun of it, meet people with similar interests and have a blast.
Just because you are outnumbered by the skinny waifs at your school does not make them right and you wrong.
More boys “may” prefer that look (media brainwashing) but you are not looking for many boys…you are looking for one or a few quality men that appreciate you. You will stand out from the average. As N. said, the passion that the right man will have for your less common and more physically impressive look will be worth it.
The downside is that it may make the pool of candidates smaller. That’s OK. As long as you are confident about how you look, your ass will be getting a workout in and out of the gym soon enough.
mini lower body day:
squat: 10@45, 5@95, 3@115, 3@135, 1@155, fail@155
(at least I learned a nice way to fail on box squats: if I point my toes way in and just heave it up, like a super-knee-cave, I don’t have to worry about getting stuck at the bottom.)
abductor machine:
10@90, 10@95, 10@100, 10@105
adductor machine:
10@90, 10@95, 10@100