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I prefer ON for both flavor and quality. We have it in bulk at costco here.

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Drinking a beer and reading mfp because life is exciting

We are a lot alike

So you're telling me there is a market for a guru to receive compensation to advise people on how to drink water. Interesting....

Your weight will fluctuate from day to day. For instance, I ate Chinese food on Sunday. My weight shot up like 5 pounds probably from Sodium. Next day, I was down three, then down two, then up two. But a few weeks from now those fluctuations will keep happening but they spikes will a pound or two lower and valleys will be…

For me, my motivation is two fold For lifting, how my body looks, i like the muscles I am building. For cardio, I enjoy being able to eat what I want and still lose weight. I doubt I would be able to accomplish that without exercise.

There is no right way. Whichever method makes you feel the most at peace wtih what is going on is the one to go with.

And bottom line if you are consistently adding weight to the bar with ramping and eating a diet to support building muscle then thats awesome. There is always some personal preference when it comes to those things as long as the few absolutes are being adhered there is a lot of wiggle room.

You would definitely warm up before jumping into it. The idea is your first working set where you are theoretiically your freshest is going to be your heaviest set.

I prefer Reverse Pyramid Training or Modified Straight Sets to either of those options, personally. But I am by no means big so what do i know.

You are eating a *kitten* ton of calories which is actually adding fat (and water)...I would go with a super high sodium intake the day before a weigh in tons of water and carbs. Boullion cubes are your friend

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TIL injectables are 'clean'

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I would recommend a site called aworkoutroutine.com It is comprehensive in explaining everything about lifting routines and even includes a very good beginner routine for free. He also has a book of several workout routines that I would also recommend.

Just stopping by to say thanks for the tip on the bench grip. I was definitely gripping the bench like a baseball bat which was adding unneccessary torque on my wrists. feels much more comfortable gripping it deep in the palms. Additional question since you appear to be the master. One of my goals for the new year is to…

As everyone else has said you aren't in danger of getting 'bulky'. Resistance training is always good as it promotes muscle retention, just choose a plan you enjoy and maintain a calorie deficit and you will be happy with your results.

Wow. Awesome work congrats on your current and future success!

Awesome. I definitely grab it how you describe at the beginning (winky face). I will try holding it closer to my crotch next time and see if that helps. Thanks again.

Just wanted to stop by and say thanks for Dope and Sidesteel and everyone else for the help on the benching issue. Definitely took the tension off the shoulders. Current issue is bending my wrists at the bottom on my last few reps which is what was causing my wrist pain. I've taken the weight down to work on it but at some…

WHile humorous is this correct? Maybe I will try and get a video today and post it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRVjAtPip0Y

Thanks for the replies and message received. I will cut it out with the partials. And yes my primary concern is chest development. As to why I am still benching, funny story. I quit benching and everything was fine with DB chest benching until I went up in weight and I failed on my third set getting the weight into…

That is the beautiful thing about it, for some excercise is the trigger for success and for some its the dreadful demon. Both can still lose weight so its largely individual.

And this is the most powerful thing you can do. Its tempting to want to close the app and just eat everything when you have those higher calorie days but logging everything and seeing the damage that can be done is very powerful IMO

I wouldn't ignore the scale entirely, maybe only monthly weigh ins (when TOM is not going on). If your weight isn't going down after a month it likely means an adjustment in the plan is needed. For me i weigh daily, log it in an app and monitor the trend. This has helped me not stress about to day to day fluctuations…

That is what I do for pizza. If it's local I'll try to compare it to a chain and pick the entries from there. I tend to overestimate if I'm trying to lose so I don't short change myself. Also if the slice is a generous cut or something I might log 1.3333 servings or something along those lines.

Thanks for the feedback. I am currently pain free doing it this way so i will likely continue. I'll look into the pin presses but I'm not sure that set up would work at my gym. My main concern is would my chest development suffer, which is kind of a stupid question to ask the more I think about it because it alread suffers…

I don't know if you remember but I have forever been having bench issues due to torn labrum in left shoulder. I also recently had an AC joint separation in my right shoulder. Moving hands closer together actually seems to aggravate shoulder more and give me bad wrist pain. Recently after coming back from AC thing, I…

Using MFP's guided set up and tracking my intake on a weekly basis.