The Barbelles Society: Ladies Who Lift

To be honest I don't mind that much when stuff like Lady Gaga and 90s dance tunes come on. What pisses me off is when, as shorty says, dodgy remixes come on. I'm not sure why but both of the university gyms in Aberdeen seem obsessed with having these ****ty remixes on their stereos.

They're bad, but no where near as bad as Blue. Listening to All Rise while you're trying to press is tear inducing. I think it depends on the time of day to be honest, whoever works around 4/5pm always had something angrier on, which was way more fitting

They're bad, but no where near as bad as Blue. Listening to All Rise while you're trying to press is tear inducing. I think it depends on the time of day to be honest, whoever works around 4/5pm always had something angrier on, which was way more fitting

Thinking of getting rid of BB Curls (such a pointlessly boring exercise) and swapping in lunges due to a weak ankle and knee. Only think is the day I do BB curls I also do squats so is it possible to do that on the same day or am I better off moving a few exercises around?




One of the upsides of workking out at home, I choose the music

I think All Rise is quite an apt song title for lifting

I've decided to keep a food diary this week to try and see what I can change to clean up my diet a bit. Just gonna eat normally, then add up the total weekly calories to see if I'm eating too much! Anyone know a good site for calculating calories of particular foods?

Haha maybe so, but it's still far too slow to be fitting with lifting

That sounds like a great idea, I was only thinking the other day that I'd benefit from keeping better track - I eat on the go way too often - if you find anything let me know... in fact, aren't there some pretty good apps on the android market for that sort of thing? Might check that out

I've decided to keep a food diary this week to try and see what I can change to clean up my diet a bit. Just gonna eat normally, then add up the total weekly calories to see if I'm eating too much! Anyone know a good site for calculating calories of particular foods?

I reckon you could do both. Squat first and then do lunges. Should be fine, might be tiring and hard at first but your body will get used to it.

But I'm just a noob so not sure if my advice is correct.

I just downloaded MyFitnessPal... seems to be an online thing too. Can also put in your workouts, they have barbell exercises!! - which is something that the Wii seems to disregard

My breakfast was almost 300 calories... is it suposed to be :/

I'm liking this - looks like it'll be a bit fiddly at first putting all the food diary in, but no more so than writing it up online? It gives a good estimate of the total nutritional breakdown for your diet and also tells you what you should get per day, and what you have left - great for some like me who rarely gets enough calcium/ fibre, I can now track it

You input your stats and can track your food diary and your exercise. You can have a weightloss goal if you choose - I'm using it more for the diary function but some weight tracking might be good. You can save food as recent/ my foods/ meals/ recipes, good for me as I regularly have certain meals etc.

I'd recommend you to try it if this is the kind of thing you're after. www.myfitnesspal.com

I've signed up! Totally the thing I'm looking for! Still guesstimating a lot of my amounts (apparently I've had 300 cals plus of nutella today ) but it's going to be a good guide!
Although it doesn't include strength training in calories burned and it didn't have sprinting or snatch in the database, both of which I did today

I've signed up! Totally the thing I'm looking for! Still guesstimating a lot of my amounts (apparently I've had 300 cals plus of nutella today ) but it's going to be a good guide!
Although it doesn't include strength training in calories burned and it didn't have sprinting or snatch in the database, both of which I did today

There is an option for "weight training" or something in cardiovascular activity, but it's very rough estimate. They say something like it's too hard to estimate the calories burnt due to different weights etc. Though I do find that there's not enough under the strength training as well.

Sorry to butt in I'm a bit of a stalker of this thread

Yeh it's weird about the exercise part, they have some things but not others. They've got front squat but not back, I found military Press on my phone but not on the website. And I found a calorie estimate for some things but not others :/ Hmm, might have a chat to other peopl using it and see how they're getting on!

Wana add me on there as a friend? And anyone else if you're on it...


Oh and I missed the gym today 'cause I didn't realise it shut at 1pm

Stalkers welcome We need more regular posters here! Tbh I don't really care about calories burned *that* much. Just entering my exercise arbitrarily.



What's your username on there?

Appropriately: BarbelleBaby

Me too: I'm using it more for a diary then calories expended.

I used www.livestrong.com/myplate for awhile... should start again though.
I got some videos taken today, will try to post them in my blog. Critique welcome

Come join us on myfitnesspal? Seems pretty good for what we're after. Shame it lacks spent calories from lifting but I guess it is a bit complex... and I'm not really calorie counting anyway.

Looking forward to vids