AF Biggest Loser/Fitness Challenge-May 3 to Whenever We're Not Fat Anymore

[Shell B]

Fantastic guys!

So, this weekend is a food one for me. Tomorrow, we'll have a boiled dinner with potatoes, corned beef and vegetables. I plan on having a small bit of beef and picking out the potatoes. Sunday, I'm going to my baby cousin's birthday party. I'm making a "skinny" buffalo chicken dip and I'm bringing cut vegetables instead of chips to dip in it. Learning to work events in without missing out.

[Joods]

This weekend is going to be a test for me as well. I have my best friend visiting me and she wants me to take her to Hanover, PA.

In case anyone doesn't know why this is important.....

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It's considered to be the Snack Capital of the USA. UTZ, Snyders, Frito Lay etc all come from Hanover.

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[Shell B]

Hey, we can take you to Hanover, MA! It's like, right there.

Not long now, Joods. We will eat healthy all weekend.

[Whateverist]

Looking for some advice.

Yesterday I did all the weight stations I usually do but pushed the amounts I was lifting up a bit. Felt a good muscle tiredness afterwords.

So today the missus was going to the Y to do an aqua aerobics class. I figured I'd go along and read my new book on the stationary bike. Afterwords I still had some time so I thought I'd go do all my upper body weight stations, but lower the amount of weight, while doing more reps and more quickly. Was that a good thing to do? If not, anyone got a recommendation for what to do on a second consecutive day where weights are concerned?

[Shell B]

Everything I know about weights says do them slow. I'm not professional bodybuilder, but I've had some guidance. It makes sense, given that you're less able to pay attention to form the faster you go. As for lowering the weight, I don't think that's a problem. You lift what you can lift. As for lifting two days in a row, my cousin is a bodybuilder and he's always mocking the concept of rest days.

[Whateverist]

Everything I know about weights says do them slow. I'm not professional bodybuilder, but I've had some guidance. It makes sense, given that you're less able to pay attention to form the faster you go. As for lowering the weight, I don't think that's a problem. You lift what you can lift. As for lifting two days in a row, my cousin is a bodybuilder and he's always mocking the concept of rest days.

Well that's interesting.  Of course, I'm not really looking to build muscle mass so much as getting back and then maintaining as much strength as possible.

[Shell B]

Yeah, I think rest days naturally happen for the rest of us because we don't train everyday. I would just take it to mean that if you're going to work out two days in a row, that's fine as long as you listen to your body.

[Whateverist]

Agreed. Since my muscles were good-tired from the day before I thought cutting the weight in half and then doing more would be good some how. Normally though I do them more slowly making sure that setting it down is given as much time as putting it up. I was planning on just riding the bike. My new book is called Austerlitz. Very weird. No paragraph separations in the whole book or chapters either at least in the first 40 pages.

[Shell B]

Sounds like Cormac McCarthy or Hubert Selby, Jr.

[Mystic]

I'm almost there with abs showing. Gonna start doing a lot more cardio. And skipping on deserts when they are presented to me.