Your Questions About Lower Body Exercises For Seniors

Will I be in shape for wrestling season?

So Wrestling season is 10 weeks out and I need to begin to get in shape. I weigh about 215 and am about 5 foot 9, so as you can tell im pretty out of shape. Im a senior in high school and have wrestled for one previous season, during sophemore year. I was wrestling at 189 then and got man handled out there. so I have been lifting since then. currently I am fairly comfortable in my strength but want to continue to get stronger to have an edge on my opponent. at the same time though i would like to drop a few pounds and get better endurance by the time wrestling season comes arounds. Below is my workout that i perform three days a week

-5 minute warmup of jump rope or jogging
-three sets of the following exercises
Bench Press
Dumbbell Chest Flies
Dumbbell Bench press
Standard Bicep Curls
Concentrated Bicep Curls
Outer ForearmCurls
Inner Forearm Curls
Triceps Pull Downs
Triceps Extensions
Lateral Pull Downs
Lateral Raises
Shoulder Press
-Then I finish up with about 20 minutes on the elliptical and 5 minutes on the stairmaster

My questions to you are:
1) Will this get me in shape by the time the season comes around?
2) How can I improve my results?
3) How many calories should I eat each day?
4) How much water should i drink each day?
5) Am I working all the muscles or leaving some out?

PS I do that workout every monday, wednesday, and friday, and do a less intense lower body workout with abs on tuesday and thursday and take the weekend off. also I take ravage pre workout powder to give me that extra kick on my upper body days

What is the probability of getting Meningitis twice?

I had viral meningitis when I was in 4th grade (currently college senior) that put me in the hospital for a little over a week. My major symptom was blinding migraines that persisted for 5 or so days, along with stiff neck, high fever, vomiting, ect.*I can’t remember specifics, but I do remember the doctor explaining to me and my parents while I was in the hospital that my spinal white-cell count was very bad. I don’t really fully know what that means or if it has any significance, but just in case…*

Four days ago, a student on my campus died from bacterial meningitis that went unreported until his death- his roommates just thought he was severely ill, they didn’t think it was a life endangering condition. Additionally, within the past 2 to 3 weeks two other college-aged males (that don’t attend my school but live in town) died from bacterial meningitis as well. My question is this: How does my history with the viral strain of meningitis effect my probability of contracting bacterial? I have done a good deal of internet search-engine research and can’t find an adequate answer. Hopefully someone can better inform me…

Personal specifics:
>21 year old male
>take 40 mg adderall daily
>occasional exercise
>low core body temp–around 96.5
>full time student
…you have to forgive me, I somehow forgot to include the part about my mandatory vaccination pre-college admission. Normally, I would assume this nullifies any chance of getting it, but I am just really uninformed on this topic.

I hate my body, how do you become happy about your body?

My body suuuuuuuuuuuuucks XD lol
Doctor says Im going to go bald, I can already see it. (thanks dad)
I used to have crazy acne on face, chest, back, buttocks, neck.
Slow wide frame so I look bigger than I should at times.
ridiculous amounts of hair on my buttocks, lower back, legs, privates. (thanks dad)
I used to be obese, have soo much hair on my body, terrible acne all over me, and had an annoying voice (that last one is off topic but i threw it in)
would’ve hated myself forever if i stayed like that
Now I way 125lbs at 5,7ft
My voice got deeper ( I sound like Paul Rudd)
My acne mostly cleared up, my face and upper back is kinda bad
My buttocks and privates are kept well trimmed and shaved
I got senior superlative in highschool for most changed and actually got hit on and dated guys for the first time.

3 years later
My acne won’t completely go away, I have acne scars on my lower back and buttocks, im still balding slowly, my hair on my butt and legs and privates is thick like crazy all the time. It all just won’t go away. I get so frustrated. all my other gay friends and college buddies are freaking beautiful and never worked a day in their lives to even get that body. they were just born with perfecct skin (absolutely hairless too) and hair on their head that looks sick as hell and awesome figures. mike even has a sixpack but did nothing to get it! I worked so hard to get this far and everything has come to a halt, but im afraid if I stop for a day, itll all come back. I’ll get overweight and have a ton of acne and have hair all over my body excpet on the top of my head. I spent so much energy working out and exercising and so much money on acne products and dermotoligists. I just want to relax. I just want to be like my friends. my boyfriend tells me to stop worrying about it, and i know i should, but its all not just for him to like the way I look, its for me too. its for me to feel good about myself, but i cant, cause i can never be like the rest of my friends, no matter how hard i try.
I shave and nair constantly
I’ve run through acne products for my insane acne for the past 6 years
I’ve lost 60 pounds of body fat
I’m afraid of what i eat
but i still feel satisfied with my body

i know this sounds realllllyyyyyy lame and stuff but
I just want to feel attractive or beautiful. everybody does, yknow?
How do you make yourself feel good about yourself
By the way, I’m very sorry if I seem like a whiney little brat. You’re more then welcome to call me one if you want lol. I just wanted to get this out of my head before it ate at me yknow?

Can chronic stress lower testosterone levels?

Hey, I’m a 19 year old college freshman. It sounds hard to believe coming from a 19 year old guy, but please hear me out. I suspect that my testosterone levels have been depressed by severe, chronic stress.

I’ve experienced chronic stress day in and day out for the last 3 years (junior through senior years of high school) because of a case of undiagnosed and untreated ADHD (it was diagnosed a couple months ago). I did well freshman year and managed to survive sophomore year, but junior and senior years got the better of me. I couldn’t concentrate, I couldn’t get my homework done; the last two years of high school were miserable… The chronic stress definitely caused some depression and anxiety, although the depression wasn’t severe enough to be ‘clinical’ depression. Fortunately, I went to my college’s counseling center and they diagnosed the ADHD, which in retrospect was blatantly obvious.

Since then, I have done much better because I understand why I did so bad in my junior and senior years. I had assumed that your successes earlier were simply because I was a big fish in a small pond, and when I went to the big pond (last couple years of high school), I couldn’t cut it. Now, all of the pieces have been put together…almost. I had always assumed that I had suffered from depression and anxiety due to the stress that the undiagnosed ADHD had caused. I didn’t think of my testosterone levels.

But I stumbled upon a site that listed the possible symptoms of testosterone deficiency:

* A lack of energy;
* Low libido (sex drive);
* Depression;
* Irritability;
* Fatigue;
* Postural problems;
* Increased blood pressure;
* Loss of muscle;
* You exercise consistently but can’t add any lean muscle;
* Loss of muscular strength;
* Loss of muscular endurance;
* Physical height reduction;
* Your erections are not “rock hard”;
* Sleep disorders.

I suffered from pretty much all of the above, and still do to a large extent. Even though the depression and the anxiety have been 85% quelled, I still have suffer from irritability, fatigue, loss of muscular strength and endurance, and most pronounced, sleeping problems.

Undoubtedly, I born with a high level of ‘endogenous testosterone.’ My ring finger is significantly longer than my index finger (This isn’t BS, the digit ratio is affected by the testosterone levels in the womb, and the ratio remains constant throughout the lifespan). I know from experience what it’s like to have high testosterone. You’re uninhibited, fearless, active (and want to be active), focused (in spite of the ADHD), have a thick skin, are hardly ever tired, and sleep soundly (the opposite of what’s going on right now!!!). Whole groups of girls would be into me…I won’t lie. And I’m guessing girls subconsciously know if you have high levels of T. I definitely feel like I’ve lost the “it” factor. Especially in sports – I earned a varsity letter in track and field as a freshman and I was overall good at sports and in good shape, but now I’m somewhere between average and couch potato, and 10 pounds overweight.

I know that I’m only 19, but I have read on many reputable health websites that low testosterone can happen at any age, especially if you have experienced chronic stress (I was close to a nervous breakdown for two years.) I feel like there’s something wrong with my body, and I don’t feel like the same person I was when I was younger.

My diagnosis of ADHD has taught me an important lesson: if there is a change in your behavior, school performance, and whatever that cannot be accounted for, make sure you get help and find out what’s going on. I suspect that my testosterone levels might have been depressed from its natural level due to chronic stress. When my academic performance changed dramatically, it wasn’t because I couldn’t ‘swim with the big fishes.’ It was because I had ADHD (and now I am doing MUCH better in school). Along the same line of reasoning, when my personality has changed this dramatically, perhaps I shouldn’t just say: ‘oh, this is how you really are, just accept it.’ Maybe there’s a definite cause (low T), just like there was a definite cause for my drop in academic performance (undiagnosed ADHD).

What do you guys think? Should I make an appointment with my family physician? Thanks very much for your help and advice.

How to prevent a relapse?

i’ve been dealing with anorexia for over 6 years now. the onset of my disorder began at age 12. i was first hospitilized after getting to below crticial weight at age 14. then i was in a partial hospitilization program before i relapsed at age 16 and was hospitilized fully and partially for the summer before my senior year. i began a very slow relapse five months out of treatment my senior year. my parents forced my into a partial program in may; which i left after 3 weeks to continue a summer of starving, cutting, promiscuity and over-exercising. i was 17 and in a very bad place physically (heart rate was 30 in addition to very poor blood pressure, brusing, hair loss, fatigue, very low body weight, no period for 8 months…) and mentally (i am bipolar as well and cannot take lithium when not eating due to the build up in the system that creates toxicity) when my parents sent me to laureate in tulsa,ok where i spent 10 weeks getting my strength and wellness back. i was good there. i then came home and began to restrict and exercise. it wasn’t much, but i discharged there out of my “weight range” by just a bit. i lost coming home, i lost last week and now i am afraid to eat, i’ve cut four times, i was to exercise, i’m not getting along with my mother (who i live with – and she is a wonderful person, but not a good parent) and i feel lost, confused, lonely and messed up.

i feel like i’ll be at a lower weight by the end of the year than i was when i went to laureate. i feel like the relapse has just started and i’m going to be like this forever. what do i do?