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no. that is not correct. there is no way to build a "bulkier" muscle or a "more toned" muscle. higher reps / lower weight will not make your more bulky than low reps / high weight. muscle tone is a misnomer. there are only 2 things that affect the appearance of a muscle: the size of the muscle and the amount of fat…

8000 divided by 10 is 800 calories. if you took less than 1 tenth of the pork in your 1 - cup serving, then you listed the serving size too big. I make bulk recipes all the time. Build the recipe in the recipe builder, and then make the serving size what you want it to be. If you make the serving size 20, you will have…

I usually cook and portion out 7-14 meals at once. I know I will eat them for lunch and dinner that week, so I just plug em all in at once. very simple. don't have to think about logging or measuring food except once a week. doesn't stop me from having and logging a snack on a particular day if I'm extra hungry. but for…

it's only too much if its preventing you from eating other things you want to eat later in the day, or if it makes it hard to get proper macronutrients.

you wont drink milk but will add an entire packet of pudding?

that is nothing to get worried about. what @jemhh said. track your weight for another week or two and re-evaluate after seeing the trend over 2 weeks. + or - 3 to 5 lbs on any given day is normal, the trend (average) over time should be going down 1-2lbs per week.

i second the reddit "stopgap dumbbell program." solid movements that will build a great foundation, a little easier if you don't want to dedicate the time to learning all the ins and outs of heavy powerlifting technique. supplement it with some body-weight strength training and youll be well on your way to building…

cheers and good luck, that's a nice bench already. another aspect of the program is that, if you feel good you should be striving for "rep PRs" on your + sets as often as you feel able. so you might not set a new 1RM every month, but nearly every week you could be breaking rep PRs.

no, you do not re-test maxes every month. if you think the monthly 1RM increase is too much, then make it 5lbs for bench and overhead press. but it is not your true 1RM until you test it, it's just a number to base the rest of the program around. run 5-3-1 for 6 or 8 months and then re-test. if you find that you start…

fitbits are pretty inaccurate and overall useless. you are losing weight so you must be doing something right. base your decisions on your weight change. if it stops going down, then adjust your calorie intake and it will start dropping again.

not really. probably better than the bike or the elliptical but not hugely accurate. you are better off doing what @Chieflrg says; adjust your calories according to your body weight change. rather than trying to guess at how much you are burning, adjusting after the fact based on actual weight is much more accurate.

it is otherwise known as "proper bench pressing technique" lol

protein is a group of essential nutrients for the human body. you cannot survive without adequate protein intake. if someone was "intolerant" to any of the 7 essential amino acids (proteins), they would die very soon after being born. perhaps you should see a doctor to figure out what it is about the fish and chicken that…

its MyFitnessPal, so, everyone on this board lost 80lbs in one go using this simple method and have been able to maintain, gain, and lose weight ever since with great precision.

cleanses and detoxes: at best they do absolutely nothing except make you hate life for a week or two at worst they are actually harmful to your health and ability to make sustainable changes to your lifestyle.

5x5 was awesome for me, started with empty bar and in 4 months had a 205 5x5 bench, 265 5x5 squat, 325x5 deadlift. with zero athletic history. i was a complete couch potato. technique is super important, follow the program to the letter. get lots of sleep and protein. if you are eating a calorie defecit the entire time,…

doesnt matter, it's ok to drive home and do it there too (but for me, if I wait til I get home I won't do it! in the gym = workout mode, at home = food mode)

yes it just makes you sweat out more water. boxers and other fighting competitors sometimes wear them during workouts for the last few days leading up to their fight, because they have to meet a certain weight class. they dehydrate themselves to just squeeze under the weight limit and then immediately rehydrate and eat as…

it will depend on the lifting program you are using. popular beginner routines such as 5x5 will often be very quick at the beginning, but as the weights get heavier you will need to take longer to warm up and take longer rest periods, so the workouts will get longer over all. when i did SL5x5, the first week i could finish…

a minimalist shoe, by it's very definition, won't be a different style for high vs low arches. it will be minimalist. i use new balance minimus for running and lifting.

SL5x5 will eventually push you to failure. Does your gym have a power cage? You can bench inside that if there is no one to spot you. Set the safety bars at a height where, with a proper bench pressing back arch, your chest is above the bars, but when you let your arch collapse the bar can rest on the safeties. If you are…

cleanses and other short diet type protocols are not a healthy way to approach weight loss. no diet or food can "jumpstart" your metabolism. your metabolism pretty much is what it is and the way you lose weight it by eating less than your metabolism requires each day. the problems that arise from inflammation are due to…

probably not a ton. i would just let it ride, maybe have a slice of pie, and count it as bonus weight loss, if any.

It's cutting season for me dontcha know. The struggle is real.

I guess not, I still think a nice lifting session burns a fair amount if you are doing heavy compounds. Try a spreadsheet like this: tdee spreadsheet it uses your average weight to calculate your True* TDEE * True, if you assume that 1lb of bodyweight loss = exactly 3500 calories. probably not exactly right but it's the…

no reason to wait for strength training. check out a beginner program such as Starting Strength, SL5x5 and so forth. P90 is not really strength training as much as it is conditioning. Conditioning is great! but its not a huge muscle builder.

unless you are 7 feet tall your stride length is probably not 43" https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Fitbit-com-Dashboard/Default-stride-length-values/td-p/884069 where is that 2.98 mile figure coming from? is it from MapMyRun or the surge?

if you've done the training, with just 2 weeks to go you should be close to entering your taper anyway. this will hardly affect you. let it heal, do not race on an injury or you will be out even longer.

for optimal fitness, a mix of both. you can't recover from super-intense exercise every day. you can recover from low-intensity almost every single day. high intensity improves your VO2 max, lactic threshold, heart stroke pressure, and work capacity. low intensity improves your aerobic capacity, mitochondrial density,…

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