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I wonder if some of the older, inactive accounts have been hacked because I've seen NSFW pics on accounts that have been around for several years. MFP had a password hack a few years back so it's possible that there are scammers using abandoned accounts.

Shouldn't you be asking this type of question on a forum that is dedicated to fitness and training professionals? MFP isn't really a professional forum although we do have some accomplished trainers here. It looks like you need to understand how to do a workup on clients before the training sessions because you shouldn't…

Logging is one of the best ways to maintain weight loss over the long run for the reasons you mention. It's surprising how much you can eat without even knowing it. Just be careful about hitting the macros from a psychological standpoint. There have been concerns raised that macro-based dieting can cause a form of eating…

That would be a medically supervised diet and they are likely injecting vitamins and minerals to ensure proper nutrition. There is a crash diet in Canada called Dr. Bernstein's and potassium, in particular, is a huge problem and needs to be supplements, and clients received biweekly B12 shots. What you are describing…

Judging by the progress pics, you are pretty close but one thing you might struggle with now is loose skin. Keep working on reducing your body fat percentage and work on your hypertrophy but if you have loose skin in the area it might be very difficult to get them to pop. Congrats on your progress so far and keep up the…

Congrats, that's a good challenge!

Why would you even want to drop your calories to that low? What advantage would 900 be over say 1200 or even 1400 for you? Even if it was some benefit how do you sustain your weight loss in the long term?

Since your soreness is very localized I would doubt it's DOMS. This doesn't mean it's really an issue, there are a lot of minor strains, etc that are normal when you first start working out but just watch and make sure it doesn't get worse. I would also be careful not to stretch too aggressively if this aggravates your…

I've seen some of that research, there is some supporting evidence, mostly from mice studies that I have seen, that fasting can increase life span. Much of the research is on restricting food intake in general and not just IF as a diet strategy. Obviously, it's hard to say if this applies to humans as the majority of…

There is no benefit to increased testosterone levels if they are within normal physiological levels, and those levels fluctuate throughout the day anyway so not seeing any benefit even if this were true. As for IF itself, I decided to try it just because I noticed I'm having issues sticking to my caloric budget sometimes…

Steps on a bike are irrelevant, the bike should give you your workout summary just log that as a separate exercise.

Do you mean use kcals as a measure rather than the number of steps? You could get an estimate of kcals/step if you take your calories burned on two different days and dividing the difference in calories burned by the difference in steps. This would assume your counter is only counting burn for steps only and not using…

I don't recall any cardio machines having HR monitors till sometime in the 80's since if you ran in the 70s they considered you mentally unstable lol.

Fun fact, the 220-age was never scientifically proven and was never meant to be stated as a true max HR by the original researchers that mentioned it. They literally eyeballed a chart in a taxi to their presentation and thought it was an interesting trend. They disavowed that this was really a max heart rate, but that it…

I was using the built-in HR on about 3 models, and it was in continuous HR mode. I imagine when you are using the chest strap with it on an exercise it will suspend normal caloric counts and this might be the issue. I was able to determine that the unit would double the exercise calories after a while. I was walking a lot…

Speak to your doctor about programs that are available in your area for cardiac patients. There is likely a program in a hospital or clinic in your area that caters to people with your medical considerations. Otherwise, your doctor should be able to refer you to a trainer with certification in training people with medical…

I've used several Fitbits and Garmin models. Garmin is generally better at every price point but it has a seriously flawed algorithm for calculating calories when using the HR monitor, which greatly overestimates calories burned. This issue has been flagged for years and they still haven't addressed it, but if you want…

Definitely can't go wrong with any of those.

In this vein, I would imagine that you would include Dr Mike Israetel and Renaissance Periodization as being of similar quality.

You will be able to find a lot for body weight and limited equipment such as bands on his channel. He's been around for years so there should be a lot for you if you look around.

What type of exercises are you interested in? One good resource is Jeff Cavalier's AthtleanX channel will show the correct form in all exercises. He is a physiotherapist and professional trainer. He spends a lot of time in many of his videos explaining how to do exercises correctly and why they should be performed in a…