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Don't sweat going in the red on protein. Protein is good. I'm always in the red too.

The machines are good for isolation, so depending on your goal and if you have some areas you want to improve specifically machines will do you good. I prefer free weights and many others do too... They work the primary, secondary and stabilising muscles for the exercise... even when you're doing isolation work. For…

True. Unfortunately it does take time...

Just struck me now... Actually, if you're training at home and not a gym... do some body weight squats or sit-to-stands in the 8 - 10 rep range if you want to add such an element to your workouts. sit-to-stands is a great place to start to start building up the strength to do proper squats. There are loads of other body…

To gain appreciable muscle size you're going to have to hit hypertrophy rep ranges at light to moderate weight. Light and moderate is obviously relative to your own level of strength and the hypertrophy rep range is about 15 or 15+ reps per set. Then you're generally looking at maintaining sufficient mechanical load and…

I'd disregard BMI completely, as I am doing actually... I have no idea what the risk curve looks like for BMI and its going to be difficult to say. A study to determine that is going to have to take too many variables like pre-existing conditions and genetic predisposition into account. My main problem with BMI is that it…

I mix mine with water and I can't handle the sweetness in my powder either. I'm using Evox 5xl Muscle meal, vanilla flavour. To kill the sweetness I add a bit of instant coffee to the mix. Then its almost got a vanilla latte type flavour to it and, most importantly, becomes drinkable. I used to drink about 3 large mugs of…

OmarIsuf, Bart Kwan, Supertraining06, Brandon Campbell and Buff Dudes are my favourites right now. And a little pinch of Elliot Hulse to hear about breathing through your balls. Hahaha. Sometimes that dude just cracks me up...

Ok, so I'm not criticisising or being judgmental... just trying to call it like I see it. And if you're anything like me, you don't want it sugar coated... First things first... Depression is going to probably require you to see some sort of medical professional... you're going to have to get to the root cause of it first…

Well I'm not the most or best motivational buddy out there, but here's the best advice I got... Stick to your guns and eat clean. Try to eliminate simple sugars as far as possible. Eat at least 3 meals a day and try to limit carbs in the evening when you're sedentary. Kickstart your metabolism by having breakfast or some…

Its difficult to work out how many calories you burn during strength training since it depends on sets, reps, weight and intensity. Best result you'll get is logging calories with a heart rate monitor. If you don't have one and don't want to get one, then you'll have to guesstimate like sijomial suggested. Otherwise you…

My personal opinion... its not a bad idea to keep tabs on weight just to see what's happening, but rather track measurements every 2 weeks. They tell the true story of your success. Keep at it :)

I ain't no expert, but you should log properly and probably make sure you're not cutting too many calories at once. In my opinion the number 1 cause of binge eating... From what I've read and heard you should aim for a deficit of 200 calories from what is required for maintenance and then if required taper off some more…

Like Brolympus said, you might be wasting your money on buying L-glutamine. You find it in pretty much everything, so depending on your daily nutrition you probably don't have to supplement with it. I sort of fell for the hype and got a load of the stuff in bulk at 30% discount, so at the moment I am working it away in my…