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Best part about working out is ordering a 1000 calorie burrito, and not only knowing it fits comfortably within your calories, but has damn near perfect macros too. Double chicken, hot&mild with all the fixin's

Low carb, low fat won't get you there any faster than just plain old "low calorie"

Progress. It sounds like you have been doing the same thing for a year. Your body adapts to that workload, and hasn't been forced to improve because you haven't challenged it. The fun in exercise is always progressing. Expanding your limits in a controlled way. Always increasing the weight, going for 1 more rep, running…

It's not that it is DIFFICULT to lose weight while training for a marathon, it's that intentionally putting yourself in a sustained caloric defecit while systematically increasing the training load on your body sets you up for under-recovery (aka overtraining syndrome) and puts you at higher risk for overuse injuries.

Yes, whether foam rolling the IT band directly actually helps anything is debatable. But stretching, strengthening, anf foam rolling all the muscles attached to the IT band and around the knee that are tight can help free it up. Glutes, TFL, quads, calves, hamstrings

If you are not gasping for air then that simply means that machine does not cause you to work as hard as the other machines, which defeats the point of working out in the first place.

Lose fat and do workouts that target your core to gain muscle there. Also a lot of it is posture. Gaining core strength and learning proper positioning for many core exercises will help improve posture. Great exercises to build corr strength and size while learning positioning are: plank, hollow body hold, deadbug, ab…

If you can do a standing ab rollout with proper technique then you probably have killer ab strength. It is a very challenging movement. Great tool, and cheap too. Check out Ross enamit's videos for technique and how to progress towards your first full standing ab rollout.

Just tell her your schedule changed. Which it did; you changed it from walking to running. It's not your responsibility to motivate someone else. You guys can still hang out at other times.

There is no scientific evidence that compression clothing aids in recovery or helps any kind of athletic performance. But they stay in place while you move around, are mobile and let you move, don't soak up a ton of sweat, and keep the boys safe and sound. Which is enough good reasons to wear compression shorts without…

Decided on what I wanted to do with my body - such as look a certain way, or perform a certain sport. Then I looked at how high-achieving people who had accomplished what I want to do, trained. Then I looked at how best to apply that training to someone like myself, a beginner. For me, the answer was a 5x5 powerlifting…

Foam roll, fix any technique errors, and fix any strength imbalances around the hip and knee. For people who sit a lot this is commonly weak glutes, weak core, tight psoas. Second the recommendation for a PT

If your low back is the weak part of the chain, then yeah. It's possible that this is normal. It could also be possible that your technique is off.

I would be curious what your nutrition is like. I am definitely foggier after cardio when I am in a calorie defecit. A post workout meal including carbs and protein seems to help, but does not eliminate entirely. For me it just seems like something to accept for getting lean. A more mild defecit, decreasing intensity or…

Just because something is tiring, makes you "feel the burn," or whatever, doesn't mean it is an effective training tool.

What are your goals?

1. Trainers at most commercial gyms are usually extremely under qualified. There is no standard certification process, almost anyone can walk off the street into an LA Fitness and become a minimum wage "trainer." Good trainers do exist but they are not the ones you get a free session with at a globo-gym. 2. Trainers jobs…

Stay sedentary, log the cardio, eat back some of the cardio calories. Weight lifting is much harder to calculate calories so don't bother. Just think of it as bonus mystery weight loss and check the scale and re-evaluate if you are losing too fast.

You don't need cardio to lose weight, but lifting weights does not count as cardio in the sense of preventing CV diseases or making you aerobically fit.

In shape, meaning what most everyone on a dieting app means: losing fat and gaining muscle. It is not the "best metric" if there is not an accurate way to measure it. A better metric is strength progress and body weight; if your strength is going up or plateaued while your weight drops, you can pretty much be assured that…

There's not really an accurate way to know, short of a medical scan. Why do you want to know? The information is not necessary to lose weight and get in shape.

Something easily digestible. Banana is ideal for me. Before morning workouts I rarely eat. Coffee, water, go. I tend to eat a large dinner later at night though, so in the AM I am "fueled up" but everything is digested.

No they do not simulate the effects of low oxygen. No, they do not burn fat faster.

Eat a calorie deficit. Lift weights a few times a week - squats deadlifts, bench press, shoulder press, pull ups, rows. Eat enough protein. Do some cardio. Weigh yourself to make sure you are really in a calorie deficit; if you're not losing week to week, eat less.

Stop running. Let it heal. There are a bunch of other kinds of cardio you can do to avoid irritating it, but if you keep trying to push through running it will become a serious problem and you won't be able to do anything for a while. Bike, swim, row, power flow style yoga, kettle bell circuits, heavy bag, barbell…

1. Your anecdotal performance after a long hiatus from running is not evidence that HIIT is more effective than endurance training 2. You get high and mighty about scientific validity, claiming to have "studied under" a prominent researcher, but you fail to submit any credible evidence? (A personal anecdote and a globe and…

Heavy core exercises to build an muscles and lose fat to reveal them.

Don't do anything that hurts. It's pretty safe. Its yoga.

Useless. MFP does the food logging for free and has better macro customization. The heart rate is not accurate enough for actual sports training. My unit was consistently off by 30bpm for many sports (running, rowing, hiking, rock climbing, lifting) compared to an accurate chest strap monitor. I repositioned the fitbit in…

The advice to run hills more is sensible, and should be followed. Specificity and technique is all well and good, But consider that this is a simple problem of lack of aerobic fitness. Running up hills simply requires more work than flat ground. Right now, your aerobic engine is powerful enough to run on flat ground…