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ORIGINAL: agirl
You're wrong in some ways there......... I am and can be a squat queen. I build muscle like a man...but squatting fucks with bursitis in the hips.  So does Kettle bells ( (I love kettle bells too). SO. if you have a cure or tip for making squats work with that I'm am all ears.  It's been a real trial for a year , so please do help if you have expertise or knowledge.

I'm about to rejoin my bodypump class, despite the bursitis , I know it involves lots of squats but my trainer knows that I'll only stop when I know I'll be fucking myself for next time.

I can make upper body mass........bi's, tri's lat's and back. I build muscle in quite a male way.

Well, a stairmaster will tone an arse!.....it won't be the best thing to BUILD one.

agirl

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ORIGINAL: littlewonder

That's funny to me when you say you don't like your B cups. When I was a 38DD I had mine reduced to a 34B. I absolutely loved them. I never felt so amazing about myself. I'm more of a C cup now. Blah. I want my B back.

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ORIGINAL: littlewonder

Me personally I'll use surgery as my last resort lol. I'm not averse to such things heh and yeah I'm actually looking into a few nips and tucks in the near future. If you are able to have it available to you why not use it.

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ORIGINAL: Delilya

I'm okay with my weight right now. I've lost 55 pounds so far this year, shooting for another 20-30, depends. However I would love to be longer in my torso too. It is aggravating being short waisted and having all my pants come up to my boobs or down to my knees. I adopted stockings over panty hose years ago because of having so much material bunched up around my waist. Guess we all have images of what we wish could be.

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ORIGINAL: agirl

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ORIGINAL: littlewonder

That's funny to me when you say you don't like your B cups. When I was a 38DD I had mine reduced to a 34B. I absolutely loved them. I never felt so amazing about myself. I'm more of a C cup now. Blah. I want my B back.

I thought surgery of this kind was quite astronomical.  Was that an expensive procedure ( as I think you couldn't get that on any health ticket ?)

agirl

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ORIGINAL: agirl
You're wrong in some ways there......... I am and can be a squat queen. I build muscle like a man...but squatting fucks with bursitis in the hips.  So does Kettle bells ( (I love kettle bells too). SO. if you have a cure or tip for making squats work with that I'm am all ears.  It's been a real trial for a year , so please do help if you have expertise or knowledge.

I'm about to rejoin my bodypump class, despite the bursitis , I know it involves lots of squats but my trainer knows that I'll only stop when I know I'll be fucking myself for next time.

I can make upper body mass........bi's, tri's lat's and back. I build muscle in quite a male way.

Well, a stairmaster will tone an arse!.....it won't be the best thing to BUILD one.

agirl

Bursitis can be treated, how am I wrong? Bodypump is lame as fuck, the way they teach squatting is terrible. Women's fitness in general is plagued by terrible information and instruction because for some reason people think women aren't supposed to train the same way as men. Fix your bursitis and then start squatting in a powerlifting style for maximum glute development and injury prevention.

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ORIGINAL: agirl

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ORIGINAL: littlewonder

That's funny to me when you say you don't like your B cups. When I was a 38DD I had mine reduced to a 34B. I absolutely loved them. I never felt so amazing about myself. I'm more of a C cup now. Blah. I want my B back.

I thought surgery of this kind was quite astronomical.  Was that an expensive procedure ( as I think you couldn't get that on any health ticket ?)

agirl

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ORIGINAL: LadyConstanze

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ORIGINAL: littlewonder

Me personally I'll use surgery as my last resort lol. I'm not averse to such things heh and yeah I'm actually looking into a few nips and tucks in the near future. If you are able to have it available to you why not use it.

While I am not looking into it for the near future, I wouldn't rule it out for the future, I can't see anything wrong with the odd nip and tuck as long as it's not an excuse for being healthy (read, instead of working out going for liposuction - possibly not the best or healthiest idea). When it becomes sad is when somebody is pretending to be a teenager and they are clearly not, but looking the best for your age is something we should all strive for, it doesn't mean to have the bland Barbie face so often favoured by cosmetic surgeons.

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ORIGINAL: agirl


There's a right and a wrong way to squat...... please illustrate the correct way for the people interested.  In Bodypump the techniques are RIGID and enforced.
If bursitis can be treated beyond Diclofenac, then I would be sincerely indebted to have ANY information as to HOW.  It's a curse for an active person and has been a serious blight for me.

Please inform.

Just an aside Bodypump in the UK is designed for anyone from the aged to the young. It's NOT power-lifting at all, in any way.

agirl

Fromapersonal aspect , it built me a toned body because it was cardio, weights and group fun all in ONE hour.

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ORIGINAL: agirl

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ORIGINAL: LadyConstanze

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ORIGINAL: littlewonder

Me personally I'll use surgery as my last resort lol. I'm not averse to such things heh and yeah I'm actually looking into a few nips and tucks in the near future. If you are able to have it available to you why not use it.

While I am not looking into it for the near future, I wouldn't rule it out for the future, I can't see anything wrong with the odd nip and tuck as long as it's not an excuse for being healthy (read, instead of working out going for liposuction - possibly not the best or healthiest idea). When it becomes sad is when somebody is pretending to be a teenager and they are clearly not, but looking the best for your age is something we should all strive for, it doesn't mean to have the bland Barbie face so often favoured by cosmetic surgeons.

A face lift, fillers, botox and stuff, is totally not to do with health. We will not be less healthy without having implants, or less wrinkly eyes, or dying hair.

Another aspect then? The mental one?

If you could afford £10,000, would you fix somthing on your body.., your face or your teeth?

What matters to you the most?

agirl

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ORIGINAL: LadyConstanze

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ORIGINAL: agirl

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ORIGINAL: littlewonder

That's funny to me when you say you don't like your B cups. When I was a 38DD I had mine reduced to a 34B. I absolutely loved them. I never felt so amazing about myself. I'm more of a C cup now. Blah. I want my B back.

I thought surgery of this kind was quite astronomical.  Was that an expensive procedure ( as I think you couldn't get that on any health ticket ?)

agirl

You can if the boobs are causing back problems. I often considered breast reduction, less because of the back problems (building up your back muscles works a treat) but because I was fed up with guys talking to my chest, but figured as long as they're still perky, why the fuck would I want to mutilate myself because some hormone driven idiots can't focus on my eyes? When they start to sag, maybe a lift and a bit of a reduction, but I guess by then other things might be more important.

Nothing wrong with the odd nip and tuck if somebody desires it as long as they don't go overboard and erase all traces of being an individual, I'm currently fascinated by botox but deadly afraid of needles and ending up with a frozen face...

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ORIGINAL: LadyConstanze

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ORIGINAL: agirl

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ORIGINAL: LadyConstanze

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ORIGINAL: littlewonder

Me personally I'll use surgery as my last resort lol. I'm not averse to such things heh and yeah I'm actually looking into a few nips and tucks in the near future. If you are able to have it available to you why not use it.

While I am not looking into it for the near future, I wouldn't rule it out for the future, I can't see anything wrong with the odd nip and tuck as long as it's not an excuse for being healthy (read, instead of working out going for liposuction - possibly not the best or healthiest idea). When it becomes sad is when somebody is pretending to be a teenager and they are clearly not, but looking the best for your age is something we should all strive for, it doesn't mean to have the bland Barbie face so often favoured by cosmetic surgeons.

A face lift, fillers, botox and stuff, is totally not to do with health. We will not be less healthy without having implants, or less wrinkly eyes, or dying hair.

Another aspect then? The mental one?

If you could afford £10,000, would you fix somthing on your body.., your face or your teeth?

What matters to you the most?

agirl

To be honest, I spent more than that on my teeth as I wasn't happy with an overbite, it made me more happy so i consider the money wasn't wasted. As for my face, I've been debating with myself for years to get a scar removed, most people claim they can't see it unless I point it out but I know it's there. I would say the mental aspect and the health aspect are closely related, if something makes you deeply unhappy it will affect your general health.

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ORIGINAL: Iamsemisweet

Since we are talking about things other than weight, I also have had great results with Botox. I want to try rejuvaderm but I am still researching it.

Crumbs, I wasn't expecting all the serious stuff like botox.  So what did the botox do, and what were the *great results* and even though I'm in the UK, where costs just do not compare.....for the US folk, what was the cost-ish?

agirl

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For me it's always been about my own look. Little hips and BIG boobs..... nothing fits nicely, not the way I'd like. I've never minded guys noticing my boobs because well, I HAVE boobs and they're quite nice....but with tiny hips I will always look top heavy.

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See how easy it can be?

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ORIGINAL: agirl


There's a right and a wrong way to squat...... please illustrate the correct way for the people interested.  In Bodypump the techniques are RIGID and enforced.
If bursitis can be treated beyond Diclofenac, then I would be sincerely indebted to have ANY information as to HOW.  It's a curse for an active person and has been a serious blight for me.

Please inform.

Just an aside Bodypump in the UK is designed for anyone from the aged to the young. It's NOT power-lifting at all, in any way.

agirl

Fromapersonal aspect , it built me a toned body because it was cardio, weights and group fun all in ONE hour.

I don't know the details on bursitis but I've known of people getting it treated but it depends on whether or not it is infected.

There's only 2 real ways to squat, low bar (powerlifting) and high bar (or olympic). Any other way is just wrong. They are both fine but just have mechanical differences and hit different muscles. I train low bar squat especially for women because of the posterior activation and the fact that high bar is technically much more difficult.

The squats I've seen in bodypump are like sissy squats. There is no depth which means you don't hit any of the muscles fully and yet you put more stress on the knees than if you went deeper. Also the women are not taught how to grip the bar to keep upper back rigidity so they end up with some thoracic flexion on the eccentric part of the lift. So they end up not getting the benefits but with more injury risk.

Anyone can squat like a powerlifter, it doesn't mean wearing strapping and doing 600lbs, it means taking a wider stance (to hit the glutes, hips and adductors more), keeping the bar just above the rear delts (not on top of the shoulders), elbows right back in the air and squatting to parallel, no higher. The girl in the first pic I posted is doing low bar. The last girl has dodgy form to be honest.

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ORIGINAL: agirl
Ok, but this is how I lift in Bodypump. (not since the old bursitis) Narrow squats work better and means I can keep going, or isolation stuff on machines.

We have to do wide and narrow squats..... same technique you described. I miss out the wide ones, for obvious reasons, but before that it was hugely effective.

All the teaching is about NOT stressing your knees. I'm just wondering if you saw a rather shoddy class?

Bursitis is inflammation of the sac of fluid in your hip joints. I'm after that elusive cure..... treating the symptoms really makes little sense to me after a year or so. I can cycle for miles and miles but can be crippled after walking a few paces. What a joke.

ETA: Just for your info john, nothing is *infected*, bursitis is just *inflamed*.

agirl