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I started weight lifting 2 years ago because I was so far out of shape and a mess from my 2nd pregnancy. My abdominal muscles were separated from that pregnancy and it caused me a lot of back pain. I started out with the Mutu system to help get my muscles back together. After my first workout I swore I was never going to be able to walk again. I was so sore I had to wait a whole week to workout again. I got through the whole mutu system and my core felt a lot stronger. I still have weakened connective tissue, I need to have the muscles stitched back together.
Then I added in weight lifting. At first that was horrible also, the muscle soreness was unreal and I almost gave up. I have taken weeks off due to burn out and soreness but I knew I had to get back into it.
Now over 2 years in I am addicted to weight lifting. Its like a challenge to workout hard enough to make my muscles sore. I have to work really hard and lift heavier and heavier to make gains, but I am hooked on it.
My diabetes is so much easier to manage when I weight lift and I need so much less insulin, even all day long after a workout. I try to workout for 1.5 hours minimum and if the day allows it I go for 2 hours. I wear a fitbit and I workout out until I have burned at least 300 calories.
I am so much stronger than I was before and can get so much more accomplished with no pain afterward. I can do yardwork with no pain afterward. I can even use our gas weed eater for 4 or 5 hours with no pain afterward, other than my hands might hurt a little, I can walk over 8 miles just using the weed eater on our property. I feel so much better being stronger.
The best benefit is that I am finally losing bodyfat that Ive been trying to lose for years. It is coming off so very slowly but it is going away! My abdominal fat is glued to me I swear, but it is shrinking! I have even gone down a size in jeans, which the best reward! I cannot wait until I can get my abdominal muscles repaired and all the extra skin removed, I will no doubt go down another jean size.
So if you are needing to lose weight or get into shape, there is no better day than today to start! If I can do it and over come the horrible muscle pain so can you. I have even mostly cured my lower back pain, by including piriformis stretches into my routine.
I use the ketogains calculator online and I do follow a low carb high protein and moderate fat diet. If I can do it, you can too. I LOVE bread, cookies and cakes just as much as any other carb addict but I had to give it up so I could live a long life and as healthy as I can. I do still cheat but I try to limit it as much as possible.
I started weight lifting 2 years ago because I was so far out of shape and a mess from my 2nd pregnancy. My abdominal muscles were separated from that pregnancy and it caused me a lot of back pain. I started out with the Mutu system to help get my muscles back together. After my first workout I swore I was never going to be able to walk again. I was so sore I had to wait a whole week to workout again. I got through the whole mutu system and my core felt a lot stronger. I still have weakened connective tissue, I need to have the muscles stitched back together.
Then I added in weight lifting. At first that was horrible also, the muscle soreness was unreal and I almost gave up. I have taken weeks off due to burn out and soreness but I knew I had to get back into it.
Now over 2 years in I am addicted to weight lifting. Its like a challenge to workout hard enough to make my muscles sore. I have to work really hard and lift heavier and heavier to make gains, but I am hooked on it.
My diabetes is so much easier to manage when I weight lift and I need so much less insulin, even all day long after a workout. I try to workout for 1.5 hours minimum and if the day allows it I go for 2 hours. I wear a fitbit and I workout out until I have burned at least 300 calories.
I am so much stronger than I was before and can get so much more accomplished with no pain afterward. I can do yardwork with no pain afterward. I can even use our gas weed eater for 4 or 5 hours with no pain afterward, other than my hands might hurt a little, I can walk over 8 miles just using the weed eater on our property. I feel so much better being stronger.
The best benefit is that I am finally losing bodyfat that Ive been trying to lose for years. It is coming off so very slowly but it is going away! My abdominal fat is glued to me I swear, but it is shrinking! I have even gone down a size in jeans, which the best reward! I cannot wait until I can get my abdominal muscles repaired and all the extra skin removed, I will no doubt go down another jean size.
So if you are needing to lose weight or get into shape, there is no better day than today to start! If I can do it and over come the horrible muscle pain so can you. I have even mostly cured my lower back pain, by including piriformis stretches into my routine.
