sarabethers
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Thanks to you all, I spent an hour at the gym lifting and doing cardio. One day down, gotta be consistent.
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Nothing you can buy at home, sans calipers would get you anything in the ballpark for the most part. You need to find a local gym or university that has a bod pod OR hydrostatic water testing.
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Okay, I think I scrubbed my photobucket a while back, so this is the best I can do. I wasn't at my highest weight here, nor was I at my lowest weight, but probably a happy medium. If I could get BACK to this point, I would be thrilled, because it's about where I want to be. Disregard the lame pose because it was a posing pic for the figure comp I was prepping for.
I guess it's just a matter of adding more leg work in and using the pole as my primary upper body/back workout. I think I need to up the cardio a bit, too, but we'll see how the extra weights/calorie reduction does in the meantime.
Thanks for your help!
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I completely agree with you, and I’m on no way trying to say you are wrong or be difficult about this. I didn’t mean for this to get to this point, because i do understand that the myth of bulk really lies more in the subcutaneous fat stores than the muscle mass itself.
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I’m just going based on what I’d have to eat to lose 1lb a week. I’m not saying I have a great body by any means. Or I wouldn’t be asking. I definitely am not trying to be difficult, my physique is nowhere comparable to a figure competitors at its current state, I am only using the stats I received from the bod pod many years ago. It’s possible as I have aged I have lost some muscle mass. I am just trying to figure out if I just do pole if it’s enough to maintain the mass I have now and drop weight rather than lose more muscle than necessary when losing the weight.
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I'll have to look at photobucket (when I'm not at work, hehe). I'm not BSing you, I do have a very gymastics-like body type. When I was 106, I was not healthy by any means. I had no strength, I was not eating enough. I don't want to go that far, because it takes some food to maintain strength and not just fall off the pole..if I wanted to drop kcals at this point I'd need to go to about 1200-1400 per day, and that's hard for me. I guess that's the only real answer, anyway.
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At my leanest (when I was not healthy looking) I wasa 106. I had very little body fat. Now I'm closer to 120 again, and I'm looking for the happy medium.
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No, I wasn't 100 pounds, I was 120, with 19% body fat and nearly 100 pounds lean mass..
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I've also done a Bod Pod, and at the time I was around the same thickness as I am now, and I was at 19% body fat, with nearly 100 pounds of lean muscle (estimated).
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I have done a figure competition. I know how much bulk I have naturally. I am pretty thick right now and I still have visible abdominal muscles.
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Well with my muscle comes a lot of natural strength—-I can do flagpole, iron cross, most strength things fairly easily, it's just the flexibility issues with extra muscle AND fat (upper back, etc.) that concerns me. I'm more into the Jenyne B look, but I know my body has limits.
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Maybe I should provide some info that will help–
I'm a former college athlete, I was olympic-caliber (meaning I was invited to try out and didn't make the cut). I have years of heavy, Olympic-style lifting under my belt, and a body-type (short muscle attachments, high proportion of Type II muscle fibers) that responds well to any type of resistance exercise. I DO have a layer of fat over my muscles now that gives me a thick look, but I do have a higher than normal proportion of muscle underneath it, too.
What I'm concerned about are the lines and look of my body when I pole dance. If I can use this as a 'strength' workout, and focus on my diet/adding some HIIT or other cardio, I think I would lose fat and create a leaner look. But I wonder if it's enough?
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Part of my motivation is to make it easier to haul my ass up the pole, too! I guess I just need to be consistent with the diet.
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Thanks JeHanne, I guess it all boils down to being able to do some cool stuff but not feeling comfortable in how I look when I do it!
Eating better is probably the place to start…easier said than done. 🙂