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Time under tension and technique play a role as well, increasing your time under tension instead of volume can increase muscle growth. This is what progressive calisthenics emphasizes, moving to new progressions of an exercise as you grow stronger or adding weight to the exercise with a weighted vest or chain belt.…

It’s tough to lose fat and build muscle mass but you can get toned from lower bodyfat which can make you look more muscular. Here’s a Dumbbell only workout https://www.muscleandstrength.com/workouts/5-day-dumbbell-only-workout-split

I think it was about £40 for the year.

Also in the UK. I live a mile away from a park and have been running there. Once there, I hoist my gymnastic rings around a tree and do my bodyweight routine on them. I have also been doing a lot of bodyweight circuit training as I don’t have any equipment.

Good luck.

I have premium and I like it because it adds more premium features to track your nutrients. I don't know what other features it has but I signed up for the year.

Thank you for all of the replies.

Start with a power lift, an Olympic lift with cluster sets. Do your hypertrophy or maximal strength lift after your power lift. After that, do your metabolism conditioning and cardio training. Train them together three days a week and do some low intensity steady state cardio once or twice a week. High intensity training…

Power clean to front squat, power clean to push press to get the weight on your back. It will be more difficult than lifting it from a squat rack and you will have to go lighter. Check out Greg Everrett for videos on the correct form before you start Olympic lifting as the movements are different.

To lose fat, you have to have a caloric deficit. It is very difficult to gain muscle mass on a caloric deficit but you can get muscle definition and build strength as well. For weight loss, start with a 200-300 calorie deficit and decrease your calories by a 100 once you are no longer losing weight. For cardio, look at…

Not sure, hopefully looking for some answers to know whether I could cut my carbohydrates or not. "The first reason being that carbohydrates are much more muscle sparing than fats during times of stress when glucose becomes a primary source of fuel (i.e. anaerobic exercise, injury, infection, etc). The muscle sparing…

I've torn the crack in my shorts a few times squatting, embarrassing. Not sure about women's shorts but I wear Pacific Ocean fleece shorts now as they are both tight and flexible.

Any type of powerlifting, Olympic weightlifting or CrossFit will teach you the basics and in-person tuition can give you confidence. Powerlifting will teach you squat, bench press and deadlift and Olympic weightlifting will teach you the clean & jerk and the snatch. Basic weightlifting for bodybuilding or body…

Yes, I have scaled back on the hypertrophy to focus on barbell and calisthenics strength exercises. Currently cut calories from 3,500 to 2,500 as I would like to focus on muscle definition while growing strong at the compounds as I did gain some bodyfat on my bulk to 102KG. Pre-Workout Burn Set Olympic Weightlifting Back…

https://www.muscleandstrength.com/workouts/5-day-dumbbell-only-workout-split

Damn, 6000. Powerlifter or strongman competitor?

Great work so far! Incredible injury recovery. You are on your way to being shredded! Keep up the training. Ryan.

Hey! Great to read about your story and fitness journey! You're doing great so far. Always happy to see new friendly fitness friends on the journey. Ryan.

Updated routine, reduced the volume and some of the isolations exercises. Day 1 Back Clean and Press - 5 x 2 Barbell Row - 5 x 5 Pull-Ups - 10 x 3 Seated Row - 4 x 10 Lat-Pulldown - 4 x 10 Barbell Shrugs - 4 x 10 Biceps Chins - 10 x 3 Barbell Curl - 5 x 5 Day 2 Chest Barbell Bench Press - 10 x 3 Incline Dumbbell Press - 4…

I do 4 exercises per major bodypart and 2 exercises per minor bodyparts on a 5-day split. What type of exercises are you doing? 90-120 minutes in the gym is regular for me and I've also had a few people on this forum help me to reduce volume with my routine. Here's my updated routine: Day 1 Back Clean and Press - 5 x 2…

Black elderberry and echinacea are really good as well.

Welcome to the community! You will get there! 🙂

Thank you. What's the KISS principle?

That's great news and that's your training philosophy. I know everyone doesn't care about reaching professional standards or competing and I can respect that. I think there are different groups of people when it comes to training philosophies. Some people like to workout at Planet Fitness while others like to workout at…

The strength standards can give new weightlifters the goal of increasing their one rep max in relevance to other weightlifters and powerlifters, it can also give them an idea of where they are relevance to novice, intermediate, advanced and professional standards.

Well, the tables go from 40-120KG and there are women of all shapes and sizes at the barbell clubs or in powerlifting teams. They also show the relevant weight to body weight ratio for each of the major lifts.

How does the Quest compare to the CV1? I sold my CV1 because of all the cables.

What's your overall fitness goal? If you want to start building strength and muscle definition, I would say P90X3. If you want to keep developing your cardiovascular stamina, I would say Insanity but since you like shorter workouts, you may enjoy 22 Minutes Hardcore Corps.

I have the squat standards here. For a muscular woman of 80KG, a novice to novice squat would be 85KG. It appears 90KG-100KG would actually be intermediate-advanced for a squat which is impressive for someone new! https://strengthlevel.com/strength-standards/squat/lb#standardsFemale