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With all the back patting and congrats out of the way, your form was all right but considering how much more you had in the tank, you can tweak it a bit. You want your hips and chest to rise at the same rate. In this video, your hips rise faster. That is, your legs pretty much straighten out right away and then your back…

Thumbs over the bar. There's a good reason for this especially with novice lifters using the low bar position. If you grip the bar with your "thumbs around" as if you were gripping it for a bench press, it's much easier to get in the habit of supporting some of the weight with your wrists and elbows, leading to "golfer's…

Finally a thread I can get excited about! Yes I do play video games! What platform do you prefer? PC - proud member of the elite master race (though I do enjoy my XBox 360) Favorite genre? FPS Are you casual or hardcore? In between. Casualcore? Hardcasual? I used to be hardcore with Counter-Strike 1.6 and WoW but am not…

The other day I walked around New York for 10 hours and all I got were compliments. I didn't say a word or react at all.

When the weight loss slows down, and it will (I am down from 185 to 176 on my way to 165) I suggest putting on your old, loose clothes. Really put them on and look in a mirror, and/or look at your before photos. Ask yourself if you want to look like that again.

Nobody would say anything if you were clearly underweight either. Nobody walks up to anorexic girls and says "wow you're a little on the skinny side." (Well, they might, but not any more frequently than people would tell fat people to lose weight). You were complimented because you looked like you were in the RANGE of…

If you still have a belly that means you're a normal male who distributes most of his excess fat in the gut area. That also means fat there is among the last to leave. I have a similar issue in that no matter how much fat I lose, the belly never seems to go away. If you don't have much muscle mass your weight can be fairly…

I've been squatting for some time now, and my 1RM is about 415. My glutes have never been sore from squatting and my form is perfect. It's important to note that soreness is not a great indicator of progress or how hard you've worked a muscle. It really tells you more about how adapted or not adapted the muscle is to what…

Yeah that's your problem. Barbell training combined with HIIT are indeed superb ways to burn fat. You won't exactly perform well if you don't have any carbohydrates, though. You absolutely need carbohydrates for these activities. And even if it's a low carbohydrate diet, you won't lose weight unless you're eating at a…

and everybody died; the end.

1. Is it more important to meet your macros in terms of grams or percentages? Grams. If you hit the gram targets for each macronutrient, the percentages will line up too. The reason is because 1 gram of protein is 4 calories, 1 gram of carbohydrates is also 4 calories, and 1 gram of fat is 9 calories. When you know the…

No one will read this or listen to me but unless you have professional medical direction to do so, restricting one particular macronutrient (e.g. a low carb or low fat diet) is not a balanced or sustainable way to improve your body composition. The way to lose fat is to burn more calories than you consume. That's it. If…

It's not about switching up your diet. It's the fact that you're drinking so much beer. Alcohol has the same calories per gram as fat, and the non alcoholic part of beer is mostly carbohydrates. In moderation, there's nothing wrong with that, but I wouldn't consider 6-10 beers moderation. You're seeing changes in your body…

I use Energy First whey protein isolate - chocolate. It's cold processed (undenatured) protein that comes from grass fed cows not treated with Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH). Whether or not any of that matters in terms of health and nutrition is hard to say, but it might, and it certainly can't hurt if the cows are fed what…