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It can just be a friend spotting you. Once you do it enough, you know when your on your last complete lift and stop. Doing that last half lift isn’t worth the bonus IMO especially if has potential to be a dangerous lift.

DONT Trust Fitbit bonus calories. Fitbit is not really accurate. There are alot of things that give you false readings. If you use another exercise program on top of fitbit it will double the calorie bonus. If not setup 100% perfectly. It’s buggy. I would only eat half of the bonus calories.

So proof. Ok Here are 6 links all talking about training to muscle failure is the optimum way to build muscle. Also have you never heard of dropsets? Which is training to failure over and over. The guys below don’t use terms like “I think” when discussing bodybuilding like your boy Helms does. Who also only links…

If you’re trying to do serious bulking every bodybuilding article says you are 100% wrong. Muscle fatigue is what tears the muscle and causes you to build bigger ones. Total muscle fatigue is the best bang for your buck. If you are just trying to build half a pound of muscle a month or if you are new to building muscle…

Good scales that measure electrical impedance with nodes on both the hands and feet are accurate to within 10-15% which is accurate enough for these purposes. As you can see in the chart above 23% body fat is considered overweight just a few points under obese. No one after looking at that picture would consider you…

I disagree with the people that say soreness isn’t an indicator. It may not always be the case, but in my experience if you’re not sore you are doing something wrong. You should be experiencing total muscle fatigue when you finish a set (you can’t lift anymore) in the 6-8 rep range if you are doing strength training or…

Are you trying to lose weight or build muscle? Do one for 2 months then switch. How much do you weight?

You are not eating nearly enough. I am 6’ tall 206lbs and eat 5000cals/day to gain muscle. Do you eat your weight in grams of protein? You should be eating 208grams of protein everyday, distributed somewhat evenly over the day. Also you need to rotate workouts. Hypertrophy is fine, but do strength training for a bit.…

How did you determine your body fat percentage? Looking at the picture no way you are over 10% body fat. I’d guess whatever you used to measure your body fat isn’t taking into account how much muscle you have. At my gym they have an expensive scale that measures your Muscle mass electronically, and gives an accurate…

Lol I love new intelligently thought out new things. White on white is VERY hard to read, and a bit annoying.

I just did and you are right the problem is with Fitbit not MFP. I personally hate fitbit it is incredibly inaccurate (my 73yo mom crochets and it was telling her she was walking 20000 steps a day lol) I mostly only use it for the rough estimate of a heartbeat it gives you with the charge hr. Thank you 😊!

All of my steps are just normal walking around (ie going to the bathroom, shopping in stores, etc.) except the hour of biking I do each day, which means im not even moving 2-4 mph, so the cal count should be even less then the link i sent states

You give Fitbit too much credit it’s not that smart it can’t tell the difference between running biking climbing etc. you have to tell it what you are doing. When you said most of your steps are not in the 2-4 mph range, are you saying most are faster or slower?

Also today i did roughly the same amount of steps and exercise and the calorie count is completely different for steps

For a 160lb woman 12000 steps = 522calories. So it’s off for everyone. Here is a reference site. https://www.verywellfit.com/pedometer-steps-to-calories-converter-3882595 To your other questions yes it shows on fitbit with thd correct start time.

That stats were from yesterday so the day is over. Those are the final tallys.

Because 12000 steps for a 240pound man should give you about 800-900 calories. Activity level is set to the lowest and negitive adjustments are on.

I did say it was counting the biking twice. Im not logging the biking MFP is automatically importing it from Runkeeper