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Exercise and Fitness

ZenLefty

(20,924 posts)

17. A noble goal

Reply to flakey_foont (Reply #15)

Wed Feb 1, 2012, 06:01 PM

Feb 2012

That's about the weight where the bar starts digging into your palms and bruises the bones in your hand. Just remember: no bouncing it off your chest! I heard in the old days they'd put a pencil between your pecs. You had to touch down but if the bar broke the pencil it was disqualified. My old high school gym instructor told us that.

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What are your fitness goals and what's your plan to attain them? [View all] ZenLefty Dec 2011 OP

ZenLefty's goals and plan ZenLefty Dec 2011 #1

How do you know how much muscle you've added? petronius Dec 2011 #5

That's a very good question ZenLefty Jan 2012 #8

One way to tell if you are gaining muscle is if.... Hotler Feb 2012 #19

Funny you should mention colds and flu ZenLefty Feb 2012 #20

Food for thought from Ellington Darden, Ph.D Hotler Feb 2012 #22

Progress update ZenLefty Jan 2012 #13

(lack of) progress update ZenLefty Mar 2012 #24

You have such detail to your plan! AllyCat Dec 2011 #2

Awesome. I like how you're doing a multitude of things. ZenLefty Dec 2011 #3

Sounds like half Pigeon Pose :) AllyCat Dec 2011 #4

Here are my goals for winter supernova Jan 2012 #6

HIIT rocks. ZenLefty Jan 2012 #9

Here's mine noamnety Jan 2012 #7

Great plan ZenLefty Jan 2012 #10

Checking in for accountability noamnety Feb 2012 #16

One month later noamnety Mar 2012 #23

i'm going week to week right now arely staircase Jan 2012 #11

Hooray for squats! ZenLefty Jan 2012 #12

My are pretty simple maddezmom Jan 2012 #14

Nice. ZenLefty Feb 2012 #18

We'll got the Wii maddezmom Feb 2012 #21

goal right now is to bench press 365 flakey_foont Jan 2012 #15

A noble goal ZenLefty Feb 2012 #17

i still have 25 # to lose, after the first 35 over the last 20 months NMDemDist2 Jul 2012 #25

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hi jony12 Aug 2012 #27

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Spam deleted by cbayer (MIR Team) illyassc Nov 2012 #29

Goals, lose weight, tone up, build strength and stamina. Denninmi Nov 2012 #30

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