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You should give your muscles 24 hours to recover regardless of the level of muscle soreness you get. By all means go and work out again today but I would resist the urge to lift with the same muscle groups. If you did squat and bench yesterday, maybe work on back/shoulders today. DOMS do improve if you can get blood…

Sounds like a perfect idea.

I use this and have done for years. I went through a stage 3 years ago of searching through several apps and found this to be the best (at the time). I originally used it for tracking my Stronglifts 5x5 program as back then there was no specific app. I think the exercise library in there is fantastic and it allows a good…

Ahoy thar' Cpt! :p I'm really sorry to break it to you because I know how important it is to get something in your MFP log for this but the answer is always going to be 'Depends'. You could go to class and put no weight on the bar and do 45 mins. The next week you could come in and do the same routine with 10lbs on the…

If you are getting out of breath then its working! Just consider what you are trying to achieve by cardio because I guarantee that its just about where you are getting the benefit rather than IF you are getting the benefit. You can do cardio for many reasons, some people do it for weight control, some for general fitness.…

Reverse Crunch - looks crazy but works well although this is a ground based on again Kneeling Cable Crunch - You have to kneel but you can add resistance so its an easy build for the abs and cos its weighted you don't feel like you are just having to do more volume to do more work. Hanging leg raises - you need a bar but…

This 100%!!! Barbell or dumbell you use a lot of minor muscles groups for stability in any free weights movement. All that is taken care of for you in an isolation machine as it provides seats and straps to ensure you work maximally on the target area. Additionally free weight movements typically mimic real life…

Cardio will improve your fitness and offer fat reduction WHILST you are doing it regularly. You will build some muscle but only a little. Weights will improve your shape faster as you can target muscles to give yourself a proportion. Additionally weights will build muscle that will inherently burn energy even at rest. I…

Depends if you are hardcore lol No seriously this is something that changes as you get more experienced at lifting. If you have just started then it will take a little longer. But as you train more regularly you'll find DOMS get less and less. A safe margin for muscle recovery (not necessarily DOMS recovery) is 24hrs for a…

Heart rate is a very personal thing. Everyone's works at different rates. I think trying to put a level on it through a formula may be ok but should be a guide only. In the end you should go off how you feel and experiment to find what works. If you are concerned about having your heart rate that high for so long then…

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Hi, I'm also cutting right now, need to lose about another 5-7lbs in the next few weeks. I do this cut once a year really for summer. I just generally go lower carb, it drops the calories down (my protein intake is generally high anyway). I'll run in the summer but that's it for cardio, I ALWAYS keep my lifting going, even…

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Thats exactly what the lady in the store said. Thats 2x in one day and enough of a sign that I will be getting up there and doing exactly that :) Thanks TeaBea

Even my best lifts only put me at 885 Bench: 203.5 Squat: 286 Deadlift: 396 Although I'm probably 15lbs off those on my squat and deadlift at the moment. I have a vacation coming up in August and going through a cut, I'll come back once I have some lifting in and see if I cant become an offical member :)

Thanks all for your responses, I really appreciate the input. So my multivitamin definitely contains iron (14mg 100% RDA) as well as Vitamin C and more importantly NO calcium. I agree that this sounds more like an uptake problem than a intake problem but its strange that the absence of carbs (and my normal carbs would be…

I did stronglifts for many months then reached the same point as you (although I had already taken the decision to move to 3x5 by that point). I wanted to add exactly what you described and started with pull-ups, tricep dips and press-ups. Several years on now I only work at 3x5. I dont squat on the deadlift days as heavy…

Reverse crunches! Great for upper abs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyv14e2QDq0 Leg raises, good for lower abs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB2oyawG9KI However these are more for the traditional six-pack (rectus abdominus). Plank is great and works the Transverse Abdominis deeper in the abdomen. What I consider to be…

Don't see why not. The cardio will quickly become a matter of replacing energy rather than muscle recovery once you get more used to it. The lifting (even with sensible splits) will need time off in between to allow the muscles to rebuild. So do your lifting Mon-Wed-Fri and take the cardio lighter on those days, then…

Looks like a good exercise mix. As well as considering the calorie deficit, think about the composition of what your are eating. Lower carb/higher protein mix may let you sustain the muscle but lose the fat. Dropping protein won't spare the muscle as much if you wanted to slim down there as well. I'd suggest since so much…