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Except when you have an event with only two outcomes -- either someone has the bacteria or doesn't -- 'more' is the correct interpretation. The superlative form is only used to compare 3 or more things. The dictionary uses 'most' because it is less vague in unversal application. If the dictionary said 'more' and there were…

I'm not on board with a lot of what steve is saying but this statement makes no sense. You have 4 possible sources of calories: carbs, amino acids, fatty acids, alcohol. If you are doing a LCD, then without any extra effort to disproportionally eat a particular source of calories you will be on a low [insert nutrient] diet…

Yea, you did. And the way you phrased it along with the question on why made it sound like you thought he was silly for trying to get better. But you conveniently edited the post so you can deny it and claim you said otherwise. If it's not what you meant then fine, but don't edit your post post facto and tell me that you…

I agree. I saw a trainer teaching someone to do squats by making him touch his butt to a stool. So far, so good, except the stool was too high and the person squatting was not going parallel or below. She was training him to blow out his knees one day.

I did several road 5ks. Your question is difficult to answer further since you didn't post your current running routine, which is why I gave the generic 'do sprint work and hamstring curls' answer. If you're already doing that, then the answer is to push yourself harder in your workouts and eat better. Have someone look at…

So at what point does doing other weightlifting exercises imbue one with the ability to perfectly perform a squat or deadlift? I'm especially wondering because I lifted several years ago and did not do a single squat (leg press machine) or deadlift (just didn't do it). Lo and behold, I sucked at those exercises when…

Sprint work two days a week... sprint at goal pace for a lap (or a little faster if you can manage it), jog for a half a lap, repeat x8-10. Don't ignore legs in the weightroom, particularly hamstring exercises if you're doing mud runs. I don't know what 'average' 5k times are, really. When I ran a few 5ks the winners…

Did she say that she was sick and ate nothing for two days?

"1350 calories can't possibly be maintenance. The PT is an idiot." For a 63 year old woman, yea it can. Scooby's calculator for exercising 3x a week assumes a level of intensity that a young to middle aged person can put forth. As people age, they can't exercise as vigorously and daily energy requirements decrease. I ran…

Wikipedia is a very accurate secondary source, and there's nothing wrong with using it for basic facts in a conversation. I think a lot of people mistrust it because that's the 'thing' and don't understand how it can be accurate when others can edit articles. The key is to make sure that what you're reading has a footnote…

It's moreso that the 'rule' is only applicable to people who are already relatively lean, which is what information on the subject is geared to. In 2013 America, that's a small minority.

Cardio is different from strength training. Every day you take off decreases VO2 max, and your muscles don't need days off for cardio because you're not pushing max weight with them to break them down. If you don't ever care about being fit then continue doing cardio 3x a week. Also you can do cardio first if weight…

My comment was made as a joke torward PTs who make people do such silly things, not toward you. Having said that, doing some curls and tricep extensions are not going to get you the results you seek. In fact, if you're unwilling to cut into your cardio workout, are a beginner to weight training, and are stressed for time,…

If you do a proper routine/workout and eat properly, typically 1 month you'll see a slight difference, 3 months and people who know you will notice a difference, 6 months and strangers will think you work out. If you do an ineffective routine like lifting 5 lb dumbbells while balancing on a rubber ball, it could be much…

If this is the case, you're perfectly fine. Your muscles will eventually get used to it and you won't have soreness anymore.

I think that running circles in your garden will last like a week. It's boring as hell and will be tough on your knees from changing direction all the time. You have a few solutions: 1) Wake up early and do it in the morning 2) Join a gym and run on the treadmill 3) Don't run As for HIIT, that's not bad advise per se, but…

Yes, it's 10 sec slower than an olympic sprinter because he has to run a 5k, not 200m. Endurance runners are sprinters in that they use sprint workouts to increase their pace, and I bet when they do those workouts they run 200 m faster than their race pace of 32 seconds. They might not achieve sub 20 sec, but they'll be…

People @ 18-19% bodyfat tend not to have an inch or two of belly overhang over their drawers, but hey, maybe he was just wearing shorts way too small for him and that distorted the picture. Muscular men @ 15% or lower start showing signs of having a 6-pack. I would have put that avatar at ~18% bodyfat. But someone called…

I simply compared his photo to others of known bodyfat on the web.

Sure, but it's apples and oranges (pardon the pun here). It's a common misconception a lot of people have... Fruits (and flavored oatmeal) aren't better for you because the sugar is 'better' -- it's the same sugar as yielded from sugar cane, it's just that sugar cane is easier to extract fructose from than, say, apples.…

So he's got your avatar's bodyfat %? I think they look fairly different, and your avatar is not sub 15%.

I don't know where you're getting this information from. Dr. Atkins isn't alive anymore to push his diet and silly claims. I dated an Asian girl once upon a time. We ate more meat/poultry in a day than her family ate in a week. If by 'western diet' you mean consuming a lot of cake and other sugary desserts, sure. But on a…

My recommendation is that you count each hour of exercise as a day. Then after, you've been doing your program and diet for a few weeks, adjust the TDEE based on the results you see, interpolating 500 cal/day * lb. In other words, let's say you set it to exercise 5 days a week and it spits out 2000 calories. You perform…

If we're playing the price is right I'd guess 22%. But I think it's closer to 25-28%.

Wine is fairly low calories for an alcohol drink (if you compare it to, say, beer). Two 5oz glasses of wine is like 180-200 calories, compared with 24 oz of beer that can be 360-420. It's certainly not something that is so high calorie that you have to starve yourself to meet your daily intake goals. What I have come…

Were you lifting before starting to lose the 20 kilos? Because if not it's likely the results would have been the same, except just take longer. It took me 12 weeks to drop 25 lbs, which was about 1.5-2 lbs per week. Whether you can lose 45 lbs in 3 months depends on your friend's starting weight. There's a formula out…

Calm down. If you are hitting a wall @ ~50 lbs then something is wrong with your methodology. I wasn't making fun of you for only lifting 10 or 50 lbs, I was saying you should still be progressing fairly linearly with proper routine. Post your routine and people can help in more detail. Other than that, all we can tell you…

The 0.8 g/lb of lean body mass protein intake gets harped on by a small but vocal crowd of people who think they are serious weight lifting athletes (and maybe some of them are). If you are not in the gym lifting weights everyday, a 0.8 g/lb of lean body mass protein intake is largely a waste of money. Someone who works…

Doing a quick search, there is general consensus that DOMS arises from a combination of unused lactic acid paired with an influx of auto-immune response to the area of muscle wear. You are correct that the exact micro-mechanism is unknown, and that is mostly because we don't have instruments that can objectively measure…

Even 25kg is too light to be plateuing on most lifts for a healthy woman, except maybe ohp or curls. Also, the 0.8 g protein/lb thumbrule is for pounds of lean body mass, not total weight.