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What is March Madness or BCS College Football?

Well, I can tell you that I've never used those, nor do I see any reason why safety bars would be needed. If you're alone, just don't push to failure and never, ever use any locks. Should you break an arm during the lift you just tilt the bar with your good arm to drop the weights from one side and then drop down the other…

Meal timing has pretty much no relevance to anything. There is no calorie counter in your body that magically resets itself at midnight.

So what? If you are on any sort of reasonable diet (aiming for 1 lbs/week) that 500+ kcal would hardly even push you to maintenance. All it would mean is that you'd lose .8 lbs that week instead of 1 lbs. BFD.

Lose what? Your sanity or your will to live?

There sure are. Still, your weight is governed by the laws of physics, not opinions.

Started with the same weight, have been doing the same progression and never tested a true 1RM?

I'm thinking that on Saturdays you should instead do supersets: chest + biceps.

Unless you're smoking hot, in which case I'll smile and suck in my gut, go "hubba hubba" in my head and then get back to wiping sweat and squatting.

Find something that you like. Here are some suggestions to get you going... :smile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports

What does this mean? You should maintain a natural lordosis of your spine as much as possible. For a situp, that would theoretically mean that in the down position you should have your feet, butt and shoulders touching the floor, everything else should be "hovering". In practice you will obviously have a larger base on the…

You might want to get that checked, you could have some lingering injury or inflammation going on there. Joints and ligaments take forever to heal, but the good part is that usually exercise is just what will make them heal. It took me the most part of a year to heal my tennis elbow, so these things really don't happen…

The machines are there to provide people with places to sit and hang their towels on. Exercising is done in the weight room...

There's no way to tell, especially not when your actual pelvic region is covered in baggy shorts. And even if it wasn't, there is still no way to tell it by looking at a picture. One would have to exercise your range of motion through that area. A relatively easy way to test it yourself is to stand up straight and relaxed…

On a hobbyist level? Absolutely, and we already do. On a pro level? Well... I only know a few cases, two female hockey players (the hands down best forward in the world, Haley Wickenheiser and the hands down best goalie in the world, Noora Räty) both have played some games in the third highest men's division in Finland…

None of this is backed by science. In fact, the science on the subject quite unanimously rejects this. http://link.springer.com/article/10.2165%2F00007256-200333020-00005 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02701367.1989.10607463#.VNsaTfmUeao…

There isn't really anything that you can do, except keep blood circulating through the sore areas. That means light exercise such as walking, rolling your arms, shrugging your shoulders etc. Light stretching is fine as well, but don't overdo it.

Well, except that it is nothing like a stair. Or then I'd really like to see a video of you climbing up a flight of stairs... :smile:

I wouldn't suggest running or skipping to someone who can't even lie down because of their weight, but walking and swimming would be great low-impact exercises.

Yea... I have a hard time believing that you would've gained 4 lbs of muscle in a week. I do however still hold on to my belief that bodycomp scales range from completely worthless to rubbish. The water weight figure is probably somewhat correct. Have you recently started working out?

Wow, I can't imagine how that's even possible. Still, it's probably better to binge on bananas than potato chips and ice cream...

Dry wine, vodka + diet soda. Also, try to keep carbs and fat as low as possible for your diet today and eat mostly protein.

Lose more weight, dry rub and lotion your skin and actually start lifting heavy.

Excessive sweating will make my calves rock hard, so make sure that you are properly hydrated and get enough salt + magnesium. I'm not saying that this would be the cause in this case, but just something to remember. My calves are the first place where I start to feel the loss of salts and water.

There are no chain gyms where I live, and whenever I am somewhere in the vicinity of one, they usually make it impossible to "pay-as-you-train" but make you sign up for a membership. So, no chain gyms for me.

Toss out those dumbbells. Unless you are recovering from total body paralysis or are 120 years old, they will do nothing for you. For a proper home workout I'd recommend a book on bodyweight training ("Convict Conditioning", "You are your own gym" and the likes), a pullup bar and a kettlebell or two. I can't see your…

I don't log the milk in my coffee, the occasional piece of dark chocolate, condiments etc, unless I slather something in mayo or something like that. I reckon it wont be more than 200-300 kcal / day max in any case, so that just doesn't matter as it is basically impossible to estimate my "calories out" with any more…

Oh dear... I'm sure that, you know, biology, has nothing to do with what grass and grain eating animals are being fed?

The human metabolism hasn't significantly changed in the past 12 years, though.

You learn to eat foods by eating them. I read somewhere that it takes at least 10 samplings of something before you even really know what it tastes like, and since we seldom eat anything completely in isolation, the number usually becomes much bigger. So, if you wan't to really give something a fair chance, you'll have to…