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I hope it works out for you and you are able to return to normal soon! :)

yeah, I mean, let's figure out what's wrong, how it is being injured, what I'm doing wrong, or what is wrong in there, so that I can return to normal! But icing and elevating *and* staying away from exercise long term isn't a good solution! Give me *real* answers! :mad:

Thanks everyone. I guess I hesitate to go to my doctor because he nearly almost always dismisses any pains I feel, telling me to stop exercising! Then he'll tell me to take Naproxen and ice it. I don't want to stop exercising and don't think I should have to... I guess I need to find a...

I was *just* going to recommend "The Food You Crave" (before I read the last posts.) Ellie Krieger does a fantastic job of marrying foodie with cleaner eating. :) I think you'll love the cookbook. I definitely prefer it to Tosca Reno's approach but have learned a lot from her as well.

I'm feeling some pain deep in my left knee and I'm pretty sure it is the step that is doing it. I've looked to see if my form suffers with one leg over the other but haven't found that to be the case so much. Anyhow it has gotten to the point that walking in heels hurts, as does most step work...

I did pretty well! I am a bit confused over the heart rate though. You talk about the heart racing toward the last 1/3 of the workout but when I work my upper body I rarely get up over 60% of my max heart rate and my calorie burns for chest and back have always been right around 200 calories...

I loved the workout. My triceps were still sore from the previous week (but getting much better, Thursday was still rough). It did affect what I could lift on those exercises... I had to drop down the weight 1-2# because I started off failing in 2 or 3 reps! LOL I got through it and am waiting...

Thank you SNM! I came to realize at least several pounds was water since each rest week I tend to drop a couple pounds, to regain them once we start a new meso. ; I also wanted to tall you marnigold that for me, I have increased my eating, which does account for some of the gain. I am not up...

I am glad to hear I am not alone! I *do* do them, but stop way short of completing the set (probably less than half). I get so exhausted so quickly that my jump height just diminishes to the point of danger. ;) The encouraging thing is that, for instance, my shoulders have always been WAY...

Ditto! (pretty please?)

That would definitely help! I'd love it. :)

Definitely an amazing workout. I tend not to do as much of the jumping onto the step since I'm concerned I'm going to miss it and really hurt myself... I'm wonderng how you all do it! I just don't have a lot of height to my jumps. :confused: Got dizzy a few times, and checked my HRM and found...

Loving it! Feeling powerful! I am finding that the first sets (after the warm up bench pressing) are too light for the 2nd week in a row. I'm thinking I should go up, but I'm also hearing "don't change your weights." So, question: Is that just in the workout that day, or overall for the...

Since hitting Meso 3, I've started to drop weight again. If that is any consolation...

Thanks! Hopefully my forearms aren't too weak. It is the only place I can see potential problems. :)

If you had to do two days back to back, which would you do? Day 1 and 2, or 2 and 3 of any given week? I'm thinking of doing day 3 (disk 27) today after having done disk 26 yesterday (plyo). I want to catch up and am thinking this is a good opportunity.

I didn't feel nauseous but I did get lightheaded. I think getting past 90% on my heart rate monitor would be why! I got up to 92% but decided it was not wise and backed off a bit. Great workout!

Kris, I think part of it may be that it was the first work those muscles have done in almost 2 weeks. If they had been the last muscles worked that day I wonder if we would have felt as strong. I did adjust my weights anyhow but will watch it and may go back to the original weights if, once...

I have a threaded 13.5# bar and a troy lite bar. I have tried the spring clips on my bar but they do not fit and just roll around on the bar... The threads are SO long that it takes forever to tighten the weights on there (I've even thought of finding a welder that could cut off part of them...

Hey all, I just finished this one myself. I have been sick and still am actually, but felt well enough (and impatient enough) that I did it this afternoon. I normally work out in the AM before work but wanted that sleep time to get over this cold! The flat bench press and barbell rows were...