One day, three PRs!

May 31, 2012

At one point in the NROLFW book, there is a section regarding what weight you should start at when doing a particular exercise: “Whatever you think you can use, the actual number is probably higher.” I totally believe this and oftentimes it’s hard to push yourself to your own limits.

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Check that one off my list!

May 31, 2012

I hit one of my fitness goals today – I deadlifted more than my bodyweight!! 🙂

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Bucking Furpees..

May 30, 2012

I was wasting time on Pinterest and looking up random fitness pages and ran across this t-shirt: While I do not cuss, I really felt that this appropriately expressed how I felt after tonight’s short little workout. The official crossfit WOD for today was an untitled workout, consisting of 21 each of 95# front-squats, burpees, […]

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Change of Plans

May 29, 2012

It has been 14 weeks since I started my New Rules of Lifting for Women program (wow, does not seem like that long!) and so far, I am very pleased with the results.  I’ve gained some weight (intentionally), but most of that is muscle. I’ve seen strength gains in ways I never thought possible (like being […]

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Helen Hurts

May 23, 2012

I’ve been working on my NROLFW program and have been very much into it and loving all of the new workouts and increased strength gains. In the meantime, my boyfriend has been working on a 5×5 program and was looking to add some more variety to his workouts. He started to create a home gym […]

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NROLFW: Stage 3 Recap

May 23, 2012

Stage 3 was the same length as stage 2: 8 total workouts, 4 “A” and 4 “B”.  There were more new exercises introduced here which was pretty exciting since I was getting tired of step-ups and lunges! However, it brought some new horrors, including a bodyweight maxtrix, and increased time for planks (up to 90 […]

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Challenge Accepted.

May 16, 2012

In a month and a half from now, I will no longer be a “twenty-something,” at least not according to my driver’s license. While the thought of leaving my 20s is somewhat terrifying, I am honestly in a better place now in my life that I probably have ever been: physically and emotionally. Recently I […]

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NROLFW: Stage 2 Recap

April 26, 2012

Stage two of NROLFW definitely kicked my butt in a way that the first stage didn’t.  I did really like that the exercises contained 10 reps of each exercise compared to the grueling 15 reps that some of Stage 1 included! Unfortunately, step-ups made a comeback and my less-than-favorite lunges reappeared with even more difficulty. […]

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Junkfood Junkie

April 25, 2012

A typical workday for me includes a lot of snacking. I get bored, I snack. Not like it has ever caused an issue for me because of my fortunate inability to gain weight, but it has been a bad habit. Since I started my lifting program, I have been trying to clean up what I’m […]

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Slight retraction..

April 23, 2012

So I mentioned earlier that my focus was only going to be on weight lifting and putting the whole running idea aside.. but my cousin posted about doing the Color Run in Ann Arbor and it just looked too fun to pass up! I signed up, but do not plan on doing much “training” for this […]

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