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mmaibohm Posts: 1,621 Joined: 2003/09/30	2004/05/07, 03:54 PM Cool sight for helping to design work outs http://www.angelfire.com/pe/txpls/program1.html -------------- I am that which must be feared, worshipped and adored. The world is mine now and forever.No one holds command over me. No man. No god. I am a beast and that is enough.
howdiekat Posts: 1,345 Joined: 2003/05/22	2004/05/07, 05:27 PM thanks mmaibohm, that's a good tool for making my workout for the new mutt challenge so i can beat all of you sissies. (yes, i am trash talking outside of the original message thread. muuuuahhahahah!) -------------- success comes before work only in the dictionary. that's right.
mmaibohm Posts: 1,621 Joined: 2003/09/30	2004/05/07, 07:58 PM bring it lol:cool: -------------- I am that which must be feared, worshipped and adored. The world is mine now and forever.No one holds command over me. No man. No god. I am a beast and that is enough.
Anni313 Posts: 1,790 Joined: 2004/03/04	2004/05/07, 11:00 PM I used the calculator and put in my one rep max which is 14lbs. I used my 10lb weight which I can bicep curl 14 times (14 times on the right, 11 times on the left) which brings me to complete failure. The calculator indicates that after the first two weeks at 9.8lbs (2 sets of 10 reps) that I should increase the weight by .25lbs per week, gradually working up to adding .5lbs. At the end of the 14 weeks I will have increased the weight to 15.26lbs. Is there such a thing as .25lbs weights? -------------- Anni ******* Have you hugged your EFAs today?
mmaibohm Posts: 1,621 Joined: 2003/09/30	2004/05/07, 11:48 PM uhm quarter pound weights are hard to come by lol. I think the numbers are more of a mathmatical computation and need to be rounded a little. -------------- I am that which must be feared, worshipped and adored. The world is mine now and forever.No one holds command over me. No man. No god. I am a beast and that is enough.
Anni313 Posts: 1,790 Joined: 2004/03/04	2004/05/08, 06:47 AM Thanks! I knew you would probably be amused, but I had to ask. I don't want to hurt myself by trying to increase the weight too much. Mostly I don't want to have to admit that I hurt myself lifting a 15lb weight, especially if it was one of the pretty pink "girly" weights. Start small, think big.:) -------------- Anni ******* Have you hugged your EFAs today?
hecdarec Posts: 2,457 Joined: 2003/12/16	2004/05/08, 08:50 AM Does start small, think big apply to sex? -------------- Would it be classified as overly competitive if I refused to let a 4 year old beat me at chutes and ladders?
Anni313 Posts: 1,790 Joined: 2004/03/04	2004/05/08, 08:58 AM Hec, I'm 41 years old, EVERYTHING applies to sex.:cool: -------------- Anni ******* Hard work must have killed somebody
hecdarec Posts: 2,457 Joined: 2003/12/16	2004/05/08, 09:01 AM Well I am 27 and I feel the same way. It may be because I am a man. -------------- Would it be classified as overly competitive if I refused to let a 4 year old beat me at chutes and ladders?
asimmer Posts: 8,201 Joined: 2003/01/07	2004/05/28, 10:51 AM anni - they do make little magnets that stick to dumbbells and increase the weight by 1 - 2 lbs instead of jumping up 5lbs, but they are expensive and hard to find. When you have to make a big jump in weight, try the first few reps with the new weight, then finish the set with the old weight. -------------- If you fall down seven times, get up eight.
Carivan Posts: 8,542 Joined: 2002/01/20	2004/05/28, 04:47 PM Anni..they sell rubber weights, to add on, something like the magnets asimmer mentioned. -------------- "A will finds a way, failure is not an option" Ivan carivan@freetrainers.com Montreal Canada