rkovelman Member

I sat behind a desk as a sysadmin, I wasn't moving one bit, but okay.

Actually the opposite. I became more active, played in a soccer league, and started running on the treadmill all the time. Its more like my metabolism slowed down and the calorie burn per hour was less. I still burn a ton up as I am always hot but it's less now than prior. Eating is like 95%, and the other 5% is working…

No, it's not, I was in the same boat. I used to also pound down those calorie and protein shakes. All it did was make my bowel movements larger. Even when I stopped that and ate a ton of food, which was mostly crap, I didn't move the scale. If I saw it I ate it. Only until I ate healthily, changed my gym routine up a…

Thank you!! What I found with waffles and pancakes, especially the frozen ones, they come with a good amount of bad fats. So that is what is driving my question I guess. And with cereals, I went from whole milk to 2%, this way I drop cholesterol and bad fats but keep the protein at a decent amount. Blah...I hate oatmeal...…

It's to the OP, not you...

Your right and that's why I moved to wide grip pull ups. My comment was more supplemental to your advice and others about strengthening other parts that are involved.

How old are you? Next is if you're eating 2k-3k calories a day, what is that composed of? Eating crap will just make you crap it out. At the same time possibly causing health issues. Also, watch your sodium intake, it will cause you to drink more, and you just flush it out.

Some great info above. One thing to note is if you're mentally always trying to push the bar away, you're losing out on the descent of the bar, or negative reps. Like the OP I was stuck at around the same weight, and it was just pissing me off. Instead of trying to push the bar away from me, I would use that same weight…

I have used a few over the past 5-10 years. Over that time I learned for me at least the push/pull method works great and just switching up reps from the normal 10 to 12 or 15. Also, most of us do the standard Monday is chest, Tuesday is back, etc or some form of that. I do that as well but each week is a different…