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Misandry!

Don't people generally recommend a basic, strength-based full body split for novice lifters? Then when you gain some strength and experience you can focus hypertrophy splits and accessory lifts on problem areas?

So what's the solution? Just going by the mirror? I guess worrying about the BF number is just a step removed from worrying about the scale number. Is it meaningful if you're happy (or dissatisfied) with the results?

I have the Charge HR. First I was skeptical, then I took it as gospel. Finally I gave myself enough time to pay attention to the numbers and figure out that while it was not 100% accurate, it came very close. I've had it since January and I've got a pretty solid baseline of numbers laid down. Take the time to figure out…

Yes, it's a very broad category. If you look at the METS table: http://prevention.sph.sc.edu/tools/docs/documents_compendium.pdf there's a few entries for weight lifting. "Vigorous" weight lifting is 6 METS, which means a 155 lb. person performing that activity for 45 minutes would burn 315 calories. That sounds a little…

I have the Charge HR as well. I use it at the gym for mostly strength training, and it usually comes back with something around 300 calories (+/-) for an hour of vigorous activity. So in that regard, I'd say they have something basic figured out, at least. I let it feed calories into MFP and don't track anything here. With…

Looking forward to the final graphs!

It seems so!

Also, gym results: 3x5 125# OHP, 3x5 225# squat. Pretty good! The OHP is a PR.

The graph! I forgot it. Blue dots are scale measurements, red line is weighted average, thin blue line is .5 lb/week. I may be headed for another plateau, judging by the way things are heading. If that's the case I'll bump it up by another 100 calories but I won't really know until the end of the week.

it might be worth slowly switching to maintenance if you're feeling particularly beat down. If you feel fine, then keep going. I had to stop losing for a while because I started feeling pretty crappy. I think I may have had too great a deficit for too long.

I have been letting the charge HR do it's thing and I don't log any exercise in MFP. You might have to tweak your MFP goal a little bit depending on how accurate the Charge has been for you. I've been using my Charge to attempt gaining weight and it's been very helpful if I have a very active rest day and end up burning…

Week 5 (1 Month): I'm using an exponential average, which smooths the peaks and valleys nicely. With that method, I've averaged .6 lbs of gain per week for the last five weeks. * It's turning into a bit of a grind. This is the "right" rate of progress but it suddenly feels very slow. * I'm mixing up my lifting routine…

Yeah I mean, without posting pictures I realize there's nothing for anyone to go on. @LolBroScience You're 100% correct. Too much worrying. Thanks guys.

What everyone else said. Also, engage your lats. Really try to feel like you're wrapping the bar around your body as you pull (not yank) it off the ground.

It's about the calories. Figure out how many you're eating now -- it's probably less than you think. If you have trouble with an appetite it might help you to spread your meals out a little bit. I have trouble sometimes putting away 1200 calories in on sitting but I can do a 600 calories lunch and a 600 calorie snack an…

Never thought I'd manage handstand push-ups. Today I got two.

See? This guy gets it.

It's this damnable temporary crown. It started as an accomodation; the various icy shakes soothed. Then it became a habit. Hopefully once the permanent crown goes in I can go back to eating the same crap, but not blending it first. But also you should really try adding cookies to some banana/peanut butter/cottage cheese…

That's impossible, since it wasn't a choice and it's also incorrect. I also had Starbucks put a slice of banana bread into a frapuccino once... but that was a desperate time.

I'm sorry, those are the only two choices. Unless you're looking for "incredible" or "paradigm-shifting"?

So the elusive "recomp"? What's your general strategy? Just heavy weights + maintenance calories?

If you want to see what the scale does you should click through my update thread. It will wreck your brain. It usually shoots up about five pounds higher than where I thought it would be and then kind of tails off, except for when it straight up plateaus and except for when it goes down for four days in a row. I record all…

The number I guess is not as important as its use as an indicator for me. But then, there are other indicators of progress I can use. Can I get a second question in? A program like Stronglifts has one taxing the lower back three times a week. Deadlifts, rows, squats. OHP if your form slips. I find that after not too long…

Do you place any credence in a self-administered 3-site caliper measurement? I feel like mine is... probably being a little generous to me. Is it worth getting a BIA device to measure trends, given that they aren't very accurate on a point-to-point basis?

It was following a cut, where I kind of saw that a few more pounds weren't going to unearth any incredible muscles. So I switched to a bulk. All lifts are not increasingly consistently, but I am seeing slow progress here and there. I just came off of a deload week too; I never really felt like my lower back was recovering…

8/10 would read again.

It wasn't a strict OHP I don't think. He definitely wasn't locking out over his head. Actually I think if he was locking it out over his head he would quite nearly have died. Probably a push press then. Still, super impressive.

You should tell that to the guy in the power rack next to me. Warmed up with two plates on the OHP. Then grabbed two more. Then two more. Then two more (three on a side now). Then two 25's. He was doing really quick sets of 3 and even heavy singles but... still. I was shocked. I know I couldn't have even unracked the bar.…

So you raise an interesting point, one that I feel like I've noticed too. I'm, at this point, pretty much used to the extra food. And watching the scale swing five pounds in three days and then swing back. But I still feel like it's inconvenient to eat this much. Programming in extra snacks when I'm not hungry kind of…