Weight-Loss Bodyweight Challenge Chat thread

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Trusylver said:
Tig, you shouldn't be having knee pain, you may have your feet positioned to close to the wall which would put your knees to far forward when your in the squat position, move your feet a little further away from the wall and see if it makes a difference.
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This made all the difference tonight when I did the routine again! Thanks so much!
 
Wow you guys are doing fantastic!

For some reason I thought you were going to be lifting heavy weights, lol. I think I could do all but the push ups on this challenge. I never was able to do a regular push up, only girl push ups. I will stop back in later.

Keep up the good work!!
 
Trusylver said:
Happychubette I noticed you said that you had some lower back pain during the plank, Don't push through the pain just for a good time but is sounds like your letting your back sag a little during the exercise which puts pressure on the back, you need to keep your abs locked tight to prevent the sag, work the abs and protect your back.
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Yes, I can feel the sag. But my abs are coming along and I will work on engaging them as much as possible in plank. I don't have a watch so I am counting 1 1000 2 1000 and so on.
 
Trusyler I see you and Tigs are increasing your balance time, I didn't know we were supposed to do that. If I understand we are to increase reps on all exercises as much as we can.
 
for the balance you can increase the time or increase the difficulty, after all in the end it is ourselves we are challenging more than anything else.
 
I have just been trying to go as long as I can for each one (till just before it starts to hurt or I can't do them with correct form), hopefully that means I can do a few more each time. I then add all the reps from the sets together. Or should we be increasing them by a set amount each day or week?
 
I am down on pushups and dips today due to my gym workout yesterday but my single leg stands were done at a kids playground on a wobbly board thing while I was watching my son.
 
Certain exercises I'm finding I can do a ton of (like dirty dogs for example) - should I keep going or should I switch to a harder version if it's available?
 
the harder version of dirty dogs is to do them from a pushup position rather than on your knees, Doing more of the same if they are easy is not much of a benefit, so increase the difficulty if you can.

Next time around I will set a harder challenge, I was expecting more people with unknown fitness levels on this challenge but there were more people in the sign up thread than actually participated.
 
I'll give that a try next time around.

I was hoping we'd have more people in the challenge - the sign up thread sure made it sound promising. But I guess people just weren't up to it.

Oh well...
 
Hey Kelly - I noticed you were having some trouble with the planks due to some problems with your lower back. I used to have a lot of trouble with mine and my sister (who is a physical therapist) recommended that I sit on an exercise ball for 15 to 20 minutes a day just gently bouncing and roling back and forth with my hips so it would help strengthen my core and especially my back muscles. It really helped me. I don't have to worry so much about my back slipping out of place every time I lean or bend over.

Take care!
 
That sounds really good. I will look in to getting one. Yeah, I have to start out with some gentle strengthening I think. I will see how today goes with the exercises. Thanks.
 
How can you be behind yourself? :biggrinjester: We are only competing against ourselves remember! As long as we improve week to week I think we all can consider this challenge a success!
 
tigs is right, the only real competition is ourselves !!

if there is improvement over the 1 month period then it is a success !!

everybody has their own limits and fitness levels, it s not a direct competition.
 
Thanks girls. You're right.
 
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