New Rules of Lifting for Women Group

About This Group

This group is for those who are following the weight training plan described in The New Rules of Lifting by Lou Schuler. Newbies and veterans are welcome! Post your training logs here, share your progress, and bounce questions off of other members. If you are curious about the program, feel free to peek in and ask us questions!! :)

January 3rd, 2012

Members Tracking:

46

Calorie Goal:

60,691

Calories Consumed:

57,386

Calories Burned:

9,614

Net Calories Consumed:

47,772 (12,919 under)

% of calories burned:

16.75%

January 2nd, 2012

Members Tracking:

34

Calorie Goal:

44,789

Calories Consumed:

42,606

Calories Burned:

5,803

Net Calories Consumed:

36,803 (7,986 under)

% of calories burned:

13.62%

January 1st, 2012

New to LiveStrong and NRoLW - with question

posted by anamikaraks on 6:49 pm

Hi there! I just discovered this group and I am hoping (fingers crossed) that there is still someone out there.
Today I began with Stage 1 Workout A1. I am obese (Yeah! This is an accomplishment for me since I started out morbidly obese.) but I decided that the one benefit of fat is that I'm already used to carrying around a lot of weight. As I continue to lose the fat I really want to keep the muscle. In looking for a logical way to do training on my own I hit upon New Rules.
My question is this - when doing the push-ups and the prone jacknife my weakest point is my wrists. I struggle to do them just because it hurts. Besides doing them on fingertips (which I tried today and while my wrists stopped hurting, I discovered that my hands aren't strong enough for that) what are some suggestions? Are there good wrist exercises that I can do?

by mxbmxmamma on Jan 3, 2012 at 1:52 pm

I share you wrist issues...I do my pushups on the bosu-1/2 ball with the soft side up and a use a 20 pound dumbell.  Place the dumbell at the top of the ball, get into position and see if that helps...It made a world of difference for me.  With the phone jacknife thats tougher, you can try the bosu 1/2 ball as well only hard side up...somehow keeping my hands wrapped around an object ie the barbell or 1/2 ball helps me...BTW...I have bilateral carpel tunnel. Hope that helps

by belisama on Jan 4, 2012 at 7:14 am

From what I've read, this problem is similar to shin splints, where it's a lack of muscle strength around your wrists that causes the pain. I'd start trying to add in a few wrist exercises or try out yoga classes. I used to have the same problem, but after a few yoga classes my pain started to go away because after a million down dogs, the muscles around my wrists gained strength.
For exercises, NRoLW will actually help you out here without added additional exercises. You can always add wrist curls or simply just holding weights at your side to build up those muscles. For shin splints, I ended up adding calf raises and jumping jacks onto my workouts and they've gotten better each stage of the work out. Hope this helps, good luck!

by anamikaraks on Jan 4, 2012 at 6:53 pm

Thank you so much for these great ideas. I am going back for the second round tomorrow and I will give them a try!

by ommartin on Jan 6, 2012 at 10:56 am

Just hold a 3-5 lb dumbbell on the ground while you do pushups. the slight angle will help your wrists.

by anamikaraks on Jan 10, 2012 at 11:08 pm

Thanks everyone for the great advise. I am doing way better on the push-ups and I have added some wrist and forearm exercises to my regular NRoLW. Funny enough (and I really can't believe I'm saying this) I really DO look forward to going to the gym!
Again, I really appreciate your time and help!

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Members Tracking:

22

Calorie Goal:

26,485

Calories Consumed:

28,227

Calories Burned:

2,443

Net Calories Consumed:

25,784 (701 under)

% of calories burned:

8.65%

December 31st, 2011

Members Tracking:

13

Calorie Goal:

17,227

Calories Consumed:

13,691

Calories Burned:

2,644

Net Calories Consumed:

11,047 (6,180 under)

% of calories burned:

19.31%

December 30th, 2011

Members Tracking:

27

Calorie Goal:

35,074

Calories Consumed:

29,076

Calories Burned:

4,807

Net Calories Consumed:

24,269 (10,805 under)

% of calories burned:

16.53%

December 29th, 2011

Members Tracking:

25

Calorie Goal:

31,302

Calories Consumed:

27,758

Calories Burned:

2,773

Net Calories Consumed:

24,985 (6,317 under)

% of calories burned:

9.99%

December 28th, 2011

Members Tracking:

22

Calorie Goal:

31,598

Calories Consumed:

23,114

Calories Burned:

2,335

Net Calories Consumed:

20,779 (10,819 under)

% of calories burned:

10.10%

December 27th, 2011

Members Tracking:

20

Calorie Goal:

28,571

Calories Consumed:

24,468

Calories Burned:

6,409

Net Calories Consumed:

18,059 (10,512 under)

% of calories burned:

26.19%

December 26th, 2011

Members Tracking:

12

Calorie Goal:

18,215

Calories Consumed:

9,355

Calories Burned:

1,819

Net Calories Consumed:

7,536 (10,679 under)

% of calories burned:

19.44%

December 25th, 2011

Members Tracking:

9

Calorie Goal:

11,319

Calories Consumed:

12,301

Calories Burned:

1,148

Net Calories Consumed:

11,153 (166 under)

% of calories burned:

9.33%