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@tobyso Another vote for seeing a pelvic floor physical therapist. I saw one after my first pregnancy and during and after my second. Also, be careful of going rogue and “just doing kegels” on your own - you’re likely to develop imbalances. A PT will teach you different types of kegels to...

@caleb_m Yeah, I have 0 certs or degrees in exercise. But anecdotally, I would wager that you could stand on the sidewalk and ask every man passing by to do ONE full, real push-up - and you’d probably have a pretty high success rate, regardless of age and fitness. But ask every woman, and…no...

@caleb_m I do remember that test in grade school. Girls had the option to do pull-ups. I sucked at ball sports; I was a figure skater and a gymnast. I trained LOTS of pull-ups in childhood - my guess is way more than the boys who played soccer and practiced on a field. Those boys still did just...

@ezie Of course, I did scale it. I guess this particular workout is interesting in that there is no “built-in” female scaling other than bodyweight, which provides some natural scaling but we know that it doesn’t fully translate across sex. I do most workouts “Rx” because I can, and the female...

@lawforchrist Oh, those are good numbers! I had considered lowering each by .25xBW, but that would have been far too easy of a clean. I like the idea of just applying that to the first two and keeping the clean as is.

@xrt Oh, interesting take - I don’t think I realized that the bench was supposed to be “the hard part”? That’s the one movement that once you hit a wall, you simply can’t push through. That wasn’t the movement where I wanted to redline, so perhaps I over-scaled? Worth my scaling, they did feel...

@xrt I like this approach - do you mix and match, or just pick one of these? I think what I’m keying in on is it feels like the bench and the clean should be equal or maybe even swapped. Do you just have people work to their weakest lift?

Today was Linda (CAP programming). For reference, this one is 10-9-8-…-1 of deadlift at 1.5xBW, bench press at 1xBW, and squat clean at 0.75xBW. I’m curious how women feel about this one. First, a man and a woman who weigh the same and are at similar fitness levels are going to have a big...