sigh

my mother is trying to lose weight

she's probably carrying ~30lb of extra weight (i'm being a lil generous here)

she's been doing medifast (i guess similar to nutrisystem) and her diet is currently 1k cal/day, she lost weight for the first 3 weeks or so bud has gone flat in terms of weightloss over the last 10 days. she weighs herself daily which i'm trying to get her to stop cause it can be really defeating when you're trying to shed pounds and monitor things so closely.

She's looking to me for help but i have no idea how you can not lose weight on a 1kcal/day diet (w/ 30 minutes of walking on her lunch break)

i'm kind of thinking that her metabolism has plummeted on this diet cause her body is trying to stretch 1000 cals out to last a day, like her body has acclimated to the lower intake in a way.

at the same time i may be way off because one of her fat coworkers has dropped ~70lbs on the same program in around a year. granted this was a woman going from 270----200 lbs though (my mom may be 165ish?)

obviously i feel that she should add some weight work but time/energy is kind of the limiting factor here (she's 56 and works a full 8/day)


anyone have any ideas what is going on here?

It ain't muscle though...but I guess I wear my weight well. Anyway, I like myself at 175 and would probably love myself at 190 ripped, but if I had to choose, being lighter is more my thing.

people at work were (or pretended to be) surprised when they found out I'm 200+.

will,

age? height? My mom's in the same boat, but my parents suck really bad at eating. Even with the crappy stuff, though, I'd be surprised if my mom is much over 1200cal a day just because she doesn't eat much. That might be low-ish. She has a card night and has a couple of beers there and might eat a little more on weekends.

But mainly, she's pushing 60, she quit smoking (finally) and that's screwed with her metabolism, she's very short, and she doesn't do much physical stuff. Her maintenance is super low I'm sure. Must suck.

I kinda wanna introduce my folks to kettlebells. It'd be something strength oriented, which they both need, but could be done with quick, fun workouts.

i'm 205 and people usually think i'm 225-230

fu

willie, her metabolism crashing sounds plausible. Would she be open to doing (a smaller) carb refeed once a week, Lyle-style? I would at least try that before doing something more drastic. As well, plateaus are to be expected when dieting, 10 days isn't unusual imo. Lyle frequently refers to this, then a greater weight drop following shortly after.

It's also possible she's doing something wrong of course, like snacking on high cal stuff, sleeping way too little etc.

lol, jesus. One sick puppy you are.

Lol, yeah I'm 220 and people are like wtf you're over 200lbs??? I think it's because my arms and legs are so skinny and I hide all my weight on my thick torso. Guess it time to use more synthol.

Breast/shoulder implants to even out the ratios imo

How long do you think it would take me to be able to C+J my body weight? Assuming I worked hard, got leaner and lost some weight. 135 is pretty easy, less than 6 months attainable?

how much can you front squat? over 220?

I'm pretty much the same, although most of my hidden mass is in my thighs

dave tate is back to cardio, and that's the time for a new Q&A with him while on the treadmill, pretty good answers and questions on various topics.

http://asp.elitefts.com/qa/training-...108047&tid=124

Yeah as AJ said the weight is shifting off of your heels a noticable amount in the squats. Weightlifting shoes will definitely help and could probably fix the problem, although some more glute/hamstring flexibility and constantly thinking ass back on the decent may do it too.

With DLs your lower back is short of extension and your upper back is pretty rounded too. While the lower back rounding is an issue that is much more likely to injure you, I think you should work on the upper back rounding as well because it'll help your posture and your bench.

lol he looks so miserable and out of place on that treadmill

NOTC,

if you buy weightlifting shoes be sure to buy the newest Rogues or w/e Rip pimped out on his board just recently. The point being, they're really flat. Which is better for squatting/DLing.

When I was 205, people thought I was 185.

Now that I'm actually 185, people think I'm over 200.

WTF? Sample size?

http://www.roguefitness.com/store/rogue_dowins.php

these badboys? they seem...not flat

I dunno, I'm just regurgitating what Rip said on his forum, i.e. Rogue was coming out with a shoe with .75" heels. These seem as high as the Adidas Ironworks I have though, hm...

They aren't out yet.

I may have fixed my DL grip disproportionate squat problem?

I did some research on grips and changed my technique a bit. I also got the grippiest bar I could find in the gym.

My squat progression last Friday (when I pyramid up) was:

After some warm-up sets:

185x3
225x3
265x3

My DL progression today was:

After warm-up sets:

225x5
275x3
300x3

Does this all seem normal now squat vs. DL? Are my progressions ******ed? Should I be doing something different?

Also, I'm pretty proud of myself for DLing 300, even though my form went to absolute **** by the end of that set.

Sounds like Everett will stay on with CrossFit despite Castro's insanity:

http://www.performancemenu.com/wod/i...d&dailyID=1016

Just thought I'd post a typical "FML I had to go workout AFTER work" story.

So, I normally get up at like 5 or so to head to the gym because I like to workout in the AM and you don't have to fight for anything. But, I haven't been getting a lot of sleep lately and work had been slowish so I figured I could guarantee myself getting out of there at 630 at the latest and could hit the gym up after that.

I walk into the weight room, quarter til 7, and holy balls it is packed out. Deadlifts are first on the agenda and I quickly see that one of the two power racks we have are open (this gym doesn't have like an O-lift station, though the old branch I went to did). So I run over there to start those. First actual working set, two broskis come up to me and ask how many sets I have left. I let em know. I thought about offering to let them work in, but figured maybe they wanted to squat, or more likely, do something ******ed in the power rack. Also, just ni case they WERE deadlifting, I didn't want them to screw up my rest period. This man's on a schedule.

Sure enough, after a set I see they have taken over the second power rack for barbell curls. With nothing more than a 10 lb plate on each side. Guess they were going heavy. Keep in mind, while this gym only has two power racks, it does have 3 fully pyramids of preloaded barbells from like 30-140 lbs. It's a mystery of nature, really.

sorry to burst your bubble but this is totally standard.

except in my gym, because the "power rack" is not deep enough to curl without hitting the uprights or you have to stand back to back with the tri extension guy behind you. luckily SS has barbell lifts with a vertical bar path.