Just Found This Forum!

LesleeInGlastonbury
on 3/9/11 3:17 am - CT
I'm new to OH and just thrilled there is an E & F forum!  I will be posting!!!!!  I hope to be able to provide some guidance in some areas - besides being a successful bandster, I am studing for my PT certification and a Body Building competitor - so I've learned and mastered a few things along the way!!!
Life Begins Outside Your Comfort Zone
The "Band" isn't Around Your Head
Leslee in Connecticut
3/9/09 240 BMI 38% Body Fat 44% Size 18 Measurements 44-36-45
10/9/2010 139 BMI 22% Body Fat 12% Size 2/3 Measurements 35-27-34
Current 155 BMI 24% Body Fat 18% Size 4/5 Measurements 36-28-35
DANCBJAMMIN
on 3/9/11 4:20 am - Fort Worth, TX
Welcome!
Your Friend In Health & Sport,

Dan Benintendi - OH Support Group Leader
www.trimywill.com 
www.swimfromobesity.com
www.trimywill.blogspot.com
Support Group: www.obesityhelp.com/group/Post_Op_PRs/


mcarthur01
on 3/9/11 9:32 am - Cumming, GA
welcome!  hope to see more of you, best way to get involved is with the daily threads...
Where are we going??  And why am I in this handbasket??

right now.  somewhere.  somebody is working harder than you.

LesleeInGlastonbury
on 3/9/11 10:06 am - CT
 Thanks!! Love this site!  Im finding Im spending toooo much time on it!
Life Begins Outside Your Comfort Zone
The "Band" isn't Around Your Head
Leslee in Connecticut
3/9/09 240 BMI 38% Body Fat 44% Size 18 Measurements 44-36-45
10/9/2010 139 BMI 22% Body Fat 12% Size 2/3 Measurements 35-27-34
Current 155 BMI 24% Body Fat 18% Size 4/5 Measurements 36-28-35
Cassie W.
on 3/9/11 10:20 am
Welcome to the boards.  You'll be a great resource for folks trying to incorporate strength training into their fitness program.

Cassie
"Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer."

Kim S.
on 3/9/11 11:19 pm - Helena, AL
Welcome!  This is one of my favorite boards....none of that drama mess, just good folks trying to do the right thing in a total life overhaul!

More folks need to spend time sweatin like we do and maybe they wouldn't have time for all the surgery war drama crap that makes its way onto so many of the other boards.

I look forward to your tips and tricks.  I do strength training several times a week, mostly with the P90X workouts, run and hike.

Any tips on how I can FINALLY master an unassisted pull up?  I still have to keep my toe on the chair!!
             
     
LesleeInGlastonbury
on 3/9/11 11:26 pm - CT
 Hi Kim
Thanks for the warm welcome!

UUUGHGHGH the pullup - which by the way I cannot do!  My trainer, who can do 200 lbs lat pull down and 1 arm rows with 110 lb dumbell cannot do a pullup.  She says it has something to do with the length of arm to body ratio - which is why little kids and shorter people can do so many.... I don't know if I buy that - but ok.  

So what I do to help to eventually do them is to do "negatives".  Thats where you are assisted UP and then you stay unassisted for as long as you can then release very slowly.  Thats a great back and bicep workout.  Also vary the position and width of your hands - over/under/parelel - wide-narrow (even when do assisted) you will find some positions easier or more challenging that others all the while strengthening your entire upper body!

Good luck - hit me up with you finally do one!

Oh and btw the way - focus on your back doing the work and focus on pulling the bar down to you instead of pulling yourself up to it. 
Life Begins Outside Your Comfort Zone
The "Band" isn't Around Your Head
Leslee in Connecticut
3/9/09 240 BMI 38% Body Fat 44% Size 18 Measurements 44-36-45
10/9/2010 139 BMI 22% Body Fat 12% Size 2/3 Measurements 35-27-34
Current 155 BMI 24% Body Fat 18% Size 4/5 Measurements 36-28-35
Kim S.
on 3/10/11 4:10 am - Helena, AL
Thanks!  I'll keep you posted! 
             
     
Hawgman
on 3/9/11 11:21 pm - TX

Glad to have you.

Looking forward to your input.

Scott William
on 3/11/11 7:53 am
welcome!

scott in ledyard
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