S7 EP30: How To Choose A Weight For Your Workout
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Happy Holidays! This week we chose to repost one of our favorite episodes, many of us are getting back to the gym after a hiatus or just starting for the first time (yay!) but how do we know which weight to use? Today on the Podcast Kelsea and Rachael go over that and more.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
● The disconnect between having a routine, but keeping it fun and making gains
● The difference between warmup sets & working sets
● Quality gym time versus large amounts of time
● Resting before coming back to weights
● Which weights to choose and where to start
● How much time to rest between working sets
● Why you need mental rest between sets as well as physical rest
● Preparing yourself for a skill during your workout
● How weight suggestions tell you how light or heavy a workout will be
● How you know when it’s time to move on
● The nosedive that come when you move up in weights
● Meeting your body where it is
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- The CVG Nation app, for iPhone
- The CVG Nation app, for Android
- Our Fitness FB Group.
- Thick Thighs Save Lives Workout Programs
- Constantly Varied Gear's Workout Leggings
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I remember my first Diane when I whipped the ad mat against the wall and screamed the F word in the middle of a full gym. |
| 0:10.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:10.9 | I remember when you said the first benchmark where God I did this, I immediately thought of you doing Diane. |
| 0:17.1 | You were there. |
| 0:18.2 | You were there that day. |
| 0:19.7 | I flipped my shit. |
| 0:23.6 | The big question is this. In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 0:40.3 | We are an army of hardworking women, changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:47.3 | Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well a part of your life. |
| 0:56.8 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 1:00.6 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:05.7 | Hi guys and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Thys Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:09.8 | I'm Rachel. |
| 1:11.8 | And I'm Kelsey. |
| 1:13.8 | Guys, happy holidays. |
| 1:17.8 | We are having a holiday kind of week over here. |
| 1:27.5 | And we are going to take a week of rest and spend some time with our loved ones and our families. |
| 1:34.7 | And we wanted to come back with a awesome episode for you guys going into the new year, |
| 1:39.4 | one that we really enjoyed recording and one that our audience really enjoyed hearing, |
| 1:43.6 | which is about how to choose the correct weights for your workout. |
| 1:48.4 | Yeah, we thought this was a really good one heading into the new year for you guys to listen back to, kind of get some pointers for how to choose a workout going or how to choose a weight |
| 1:54.5 | for our workout going into the new year and how that would vary. |
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