Feeling strong!

[Anonymous]

I’m a 41yo woman - 5’2 and 125lbs. I’ve been working on increasing my weights lately (I do orange theory). Last night my 5 and 7yo boys both asked me to carry them upstairs - so I randomly decided to see if i could carry both (they were in weird needy moods, I don’t usually carry them at all).

Easily made it up the stairs with 95lbs of kid on me. I think I probably could have done 3 flights before it started to get really hard. It feels amazing to think I can carry 100lbs like it’s nbd

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a 41yo woman - 5’2 and 125lbs. I’ve been working on increasing my weights lately (I do orange theory). Last night my 5 and 7yo boys both asked me to carry them upstairs - so I randomly decided to see if i could carry both (they were in weird needy moods, I don’t usually carry them at all).

Easily made it up the stairs with 95lbs of kid on me. I think I probably could have done 3 flights before it started to get really hard. It feels amazing to think I can carry 100lbs like it’s nbd

get it OP! do you deadlift?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a 41yo woman - 5’2 and 125lbs. I’ve been working on increasing my weights lately (I do orange theory). Last night my 5 and 7yo boys both asked me to carry them upstairs - so I randomly decided to see if i could carry both (they were in weird needy moods, I don’t usually carry them at all).

Easily made it up the stairs with 95lbs of kid on me. I think I probably could have done 3 flights before it started to get really hard. It feels amazing to think I can carry 100lbs like it’s nbd

get it OP! do you deadlift?

Sometimes as part of orange theory but it’s not quite real deadlifts to me

[Anonymous]

I love this kind of win where you see your hard work pay off in real life situations. Way to go, OP!

[Anonymous]

OP that is awesome.

Can I ask what you are lifting in your Orange Theory workouts -- I have also been trying to increase my weights in workouts and have a similar build to you (though I'm a smidge taller).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP that is awesome.

Can I ask what you are lifting in your Orange Theory workouts -- I have also been trying to increase my weights in workouts and have a similar build to you (though I'm a smidge taller).

I’ve stopped being afraid of the 50 or even 60lb weight for things like sumo squats. Usually 40s for deadlift I think. 20s for benchpress and shoulder press. 40s for step ups. I went through a kick recently where i bumped up the weight of at each one exercise in every class until everything was at a higher weight. I figured I could always drop back down after the first set but usually didn’t need to

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP that is awesome.

Can I ask what you are lifting in your Orange Theory workouts -- I have also been trying to increase my weights in workouts and have a similar build to you (though I'm a smidge taller).

I’ve stopped being afraid of the 50 or even 60lb weight for things like sumo squats. Usually 40s for deadlift I think. 20s for benchpress and shoulder press. 40s for step ups. I went through a kick recently where i bumped up the weight of at each one exercise in every class until everything was at a higher weight. I figured I could always drop back down after the first set but usually didn’t need to

* at least one exercise every class

[Anonymous]

That is so dangerous to carry anyone over 25 pounds up stairs! What were you thinking???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That is so dangerous to carry anyone over 25 pounds up stairs! What were you thinking???

You’re kidding right?