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I disagree. it might be a relatively small percentage, but I think there's substantial subset of 'average' gym goes that do or have used PED

what is it about current events and history that would make you fear being penalized for using it as an elite athlete?

so sounds like they've been using them 20 - 30 years, any reported side effects/draw backs?

what's a younger athlete? I didn't see them at all in high school, didn't play any college sports. Maybe I'm warped but most steroid users I know are middle aged men

it 'works' if you net a calorie deficit over time. but most people don't find it a very pleasant we to eat. And whatever reasons they give for you to eat particular kinds of foods on the 'on' days is total BS

are you guys taking BCAA supplements on top of whatever protein supplement you may be taking? If that's the case I'd just try to find a whey with some of the BCAAs in it that you want

You CAN workout too much, but the result of that would be a run down feeling almost like your sick or an injury. I wouldn't say that working out to much on its own would prevent you from losing weight.

I'm sure there were extremely impressive specimens long before expensive equipment was created. Of course you can be all you can be without equipment. and if the idea is to slim down, you'll get much more bang for your buck but focusing on nutrition. If your dead set on lifting alone, I'd goggle body weight exercises. Or…

never really noticed my HR go up from heavier weight alone, but put the sets to close together and it will happen. actually I guess it does, but it goes down so quickly I don't really think of it as an elevated heart rate. I think this will play back into how close your sets are

I don't really get your question, you totally lose me when you say 'I thought I couldn't lift weights' are you afraid of over exertion? do you have a heart condition? are you thinking your not working hard enough? I'd say one doesn't really have much to do with the other, especially because there are a lot of goals one…

When I read your post, I honestly thought you were more interested in just getting exercise. I would ask, are you more interested in actually learning the forms and skills of martial arts and/or to defend yourself? Or are you more interested in exercise that involves punching and kicking and is basically cardio under the…

only reason to fight it is if you feel you will lose money because of it.

my approach was to simply set my calorie intake to what was recommended in the nutrition guide, and not bother logging the exercise. its all an estimate anyway... so doing it that way doesn't hurt much and saves a logging step

my nutrition recommendations would be to hit your calorie goals, then worry about hitting macro goals. as long as you stay within those parameters, you should get optimum fat loss benefit from the program.

if your doing intense ab exercises and you get to the point where they are 'easy'... their is a more intense move out there that you will not find so easy. also ab work is MUCH easier if you use POOR form and/or momentum, be mindful of that. if your banging out 30 plus hanging leg raises without any effort at all, you've…

'its a waste of time' is certainly the prevailing attitude around here. I assume the majority of them think of direct ab work as little more then crunches. crunches, where any out of shape person can easily start doing 100+ reps in a month if not a few weeks. the exercises you are talking about you're never going to hit…

zero experience with cross fit. It sounds like a very effective and fun way to exercise. but from what I read, its certainly not the way most people would go about rehabbing an injury.

I don't really see any reason that breaking up the cardio is really hurting you from a weight loss perspective at least. Supposedly you can burn more fat during a workout if you lift weights first because you've depleted the muscle glycogen and this is supposedly going to make you start burning fat earilier in the cardio…

their post workout drink is as good or better then any other post workout. but you can buy the ingredients in bulk if your dedicated to using the supplement and make your own drink for a lot cheaper.

would love to have a well equipped home gym. also would probably keep a gym membership, and do all of my free weights, stretch.... i'll even get changed, IN the squat rack

never used a suspension, but if your doing sets and reps work then log it as search strength training or weight lifting under cardio and log the number of minutes... that's what most people do for weight training anyway

good answer

would it also be poor etiquette to sit down on a bench that wasn't being used during a set brake in a more or less empty gym?

I'd do one then the other. lower then upper. reason being that you work the area that is being worked by crunches while doing the leg raises. more efficient because the number of reps you need to do before you approach your limit is much less.

[/quote] And to all those who say they do it and don't see an issue...the question is about etiquette when there is only one rack in the whole gym....and no it's not proper etiquette to take up the one and only squat rack for non squat lifts.[/quote] idk, if there's no one waiting how exactly is it bad etiquette, is it bad…