richln Member

Lol, they should be standing on a big pile of cash in that last panel.

I haven't tried it yet. Did you like it? I am a big Mac fan but I didn't like the Mac jr.

Neat. I wonder what "miscellaneous" is, and why Hong Kongers eat the most miscellaneous items?

I had trouble getting to the gym when my son was young, so I built a home gym. It makes it a lot easier to fit in your workouts if that is a possible option for you. It does get easier as they get older.

I have always made my best progress (strictly in terms of hypertrophy) on longer splits like pplx or body part splits. I make better strength gains on higher frequency.

y u no like cookies?

Those thighmaster ads were pretty mesmerizing. That was all the credibility a young richln needed.

If McDonald's ever gets around to all-day lunch menu, then this might be a rational option.

I get what you are describing, but I don't understand the utility of that movement. From a pull exercise perspective, I guess it could be somewhat useful as highly inefficient hamstring isolation exercise. From a push exercise perspective, Newtonian physics implies that it would only be useful for someone who cannot do a…

If you feel good and your lifts are going well, then up your cardio and/or drop cals to lose weight faster. There is no magic. You can increase your protein ratio since it is a thermogenic, but that is just another way to increase CO.

Not possible if it is on a high pulley. OK, well I guess maybe possible (though more like a deadlift), if you did it like this but used your legs to drive the lift:

conventional for some submax work and sumo for heavies because my degenerated discs don't like shear force very much and also because I eat butt

I haven't tried that, but it sounds like a good way to start. Eventually you will get to 100 reps and you will then need to find a way to progress. If you just do the same thing every day, then your progress will stagnate. If you can't get to the gym to use weights, then there are some progressive bodyweight programs…

Shake weight

I was lifting pretty late one cold, winter night at the only hotel in a small town in the middle of nowhere, Maryland. It was a tiny gym, but not bad for a hotel; it was mostly filled with a few machines, a rack of dumbbells, and I was using the only power cage to do some rack pulls. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed…

I would not argue with that. I have seen some good studies that suggest that LC is a good choice to try for people with existing metabolic syndrome.

I am not sure your analogy holds. My body cannot synthesize adequate vitamin D, even in the summer when I spend a lot of time outside. Given some of the more recent studies that suggest that the current recommended intake of vitamin D is way too low, and that perhaps three-quarters of the population of the US is deficient,…

The problem with this dichotomy is that sucrose is also found in high concentrations in many fruits and vegetables. You could argue that the fiber found in fruits and vegetables blunts the GL, thus making the sucrose in fruits and vegetables "not bad" as compared to refined sugar, but at least in short-term, this is not…

Well, now there is an exercise that people may not appreciate a request to work in on.

Not true at all in my experience. I have trained at perhaps a couple dozen gyms, which have covered quite a large variety from hardcore powerlifting gyms to some laid back, machine-only places. I often ask to work in with complete strangers, and have rarely ever been turned down. Isn't Planet Fitness that place that is…

So you are ranting against people who are ranting? There is a support and motivation forum that might be better suited for people who are too sensitive for unfiltered opinions. This forum tends to have knowledge that isn't always packed with kindness and rainbows.

It involves 10 sets of 10 reps, with some resting required in between sets because it is hard. If you ask to work in, most people will let you if they are taking long rests. It only takes a few seconds to change out plates.

You should see the dirty looks I get when I am running GVT. Deep down, I am not really a bad person.

There is a lot going on in this post, but I am particularly curious about the bolded part. Are you claiming that the excretory system is involved in lipolysis of adipose tissue?

The recurring cycle is that a new OP claims to be well-educated and experienced in the field, offers to provide help and be friends, then immediately deletes account.

That was nearly 20 years ago when I was 230 lbs and very active. Eating that much is uncomfortable, time consuming, and expensive. It was not enjoyable and nothing to brag about; that is just the reality of what it took to gain at the time. The point of my post was only to illustrate the limitations in setting macros as…

Percentages aren't always particularly useful. I have been on 6000 calories bulks, and if I had set my protein goal to 35% of that, I would have had to eat 525 g of protein. That clearly would have been way above what I needed.

https://stronglifts.com/5-rules-to-find-your-perfect-warm-up-weight/ DeFranco's Agile 8 is also pretty smart: https://www.t-nation.com/training/defranco-agile-8 At a bare miniumum, I use some form of dynamic stretching to get the target muscles contracting, blood flowing, and the joints moving. I then proceed with…

Easy! Ben and Jerry's Chunky Monkey ice cream. It has bananas and omega 3's in it. Win-win-win.

Nope, the hipsters are drinking PBR!