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I don't have any advice, as you're the one in the situation, and it's you who knows him, so you'll have the best feel for how things may go. My thought was at least he was honest though, some people may say he's a jerk or mean or whatever, but to me it is better to be truthful than to string someone along, and just make…

Always good to see a fellow UK lifter here! Back on topic, I would also consider second hand. Also, as a beginner, you most likely won't need 150kg straight away, so I would look to spend your budget on a decent bar and some decent plates to start with, and then you can add more plates to make up weight later, as you…

Well, it will be trial an error, but I honestly think at least the same, because although you will have less momentum on the bar, hopefully it will be more aggressive, and you can also catch it lower. When the bar gets too light, it's hard to be aggressive. I would even consider going beyond where you can catch the weight,…

Ending position is start position of the hip clean. Just get used to moving into that position. If you're comfortable with both drills, and you're feeling bold, do one followed by the other, with a pause, and when you can do that in your sleep, you can even remove the pause!

Wonder who the unlucky 13, who happen to be lower down than myself are? They must be really terrible people! Ok, so no videos yet, as I didn't go to the gym in the middle of the night, but here's what you need to be working on: 1) Hip cleans. I will try and make a video of this, but for now just consider it almost the same…

Ok, I looked, and I'm gonna give you 2 drills to work on, but its late, I just got home from being in the gym for 3 hours, so I will do it later, hopefully with video, if I get a chance.

This is one of the major reasons as to why I am here, as want to move up to the 105kg weight class, because then I have less shortasses to compete against, it's not because I want to get fat!

I already mentioned proportions, but for all those of you who say height has nothing to do with it, think about this: Let's assume its a perfect world, and everyone has no mobility restrictions, and can squat butt to heels. Are you saying the distance between a short persons butt and heels is the same as a tall persons?…

Body proportion more than height will have an effect. Typically it depends on the ratio of upper and lower leg length and the ratio of torso and leg length.

Glad to have helped!

Try Prozis (www.prozis.com), they're based in Portugal, but they should deliver to Spain pretty cheaply. I don't know going rates for protein in Euros, but I hear they do good deals, so might help.

Are you currently in the UK or Spain? Where do you get your protein shakes from?

Go deep!

Not sure where to start. One of the benefits of protein shakes, is that they tend to be cheaper than most other sources of protein! If you buy 4kg from a bulk supplier, you will be paying about £0.30 for 20g of protein, you might get close to this if you buy the cheapest eggs possible, but not much will, certainly not…

If you want a bigger butt, you really want to be adding some load to the squats, rather than doing 100's of bodyweight squats.

Learn to clean, that way not only can you do front squats without a rack, but you'll also be a badass!

Another vote for the Withings scale, not cheap, but I like it.

Ok, that makes sense. The way I read your original post was that you had calculated your TDEE without exercise (which wouldn't strictly be TDEE!) and then decided to create a deficit and then not add in exercise calories. However you've actually built exercise calories in and then created the deficit, so makes perfect…

The biggest effect on muscle loss is likely to be how you exercise. If you do a decent amount of resistance training (lifting weights), you will maintain the most amount of muscle possible on a deficit. One thing I don't get, you say you want to eat 3500 less than your TDEE over a week, but then say you won't eat back…

Also worth reading these 2 threads: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/883783-a-protein-shake-in-uk http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/876982-whey-protein-holland-and-barrett

The protein works, quality products, good prices, great service and awesome flavours! I'm a massive fan of Cherry bakewell and Butterscotch ripple, but plenty of other choices out there. As a newbie to this stuff, I would just go with the WPC 80.

Yes, you might also have noticed my whole post is about weightlifting, so in the context of my post 'competition' refers to weightlifting competition. I get that you're a fan of powerlifting, that's cool, I'm a fan of all strength sports, but I compete in weightlifting at a pretty high level, so this is where my expertise…

Only you know what's bets for you, so I'll leave that in your hands. Only thing I will say is competing is all about having 3 attempts and each lift to beat your PBs. You can ignore everyone else, a success is if you beat your previous competition PB, if you put up the absolute max that you could do, you've given it…

Mainly because CoderGal (she) said: As for competing, I didn't assume anything, I asked. Not that it really matters, weightlifting, powerlifting, strongman, or just throwing weights around in a gym, it's all good.

Just saw you posted weight, so modified: 6.9 x 89.8 = 619.62 calories Assume ~100 calories from that 619 is an hour and a bit of your BMR (what you would have burned anyway by just being alive), so 519 calories, pretty close to the 544 from the Endomondo.

I'd go with the higher estimate in this case. To move a person a certain distance takes a certain amount of energy, there is a slight difference based on intensity, but you can get an approximation by multiplying your bodyweight in kg by the distance you covered in km. So assuming you weigh 70kg - I can't see your weight,…

How serious about weightlifting? If you're going to compete, get a womens bar, as no point practising with something different from what you will compete with. Also for weightlifting, get a decent bar, a weightlifting bar is more flexible and has better bearings than a cheap old bar or a powerlifting bar. They're not…

Strong first post! The smith machine makes me sad, fortunately my gym does not have one. More seriously, the smith machine makes you move in an unnatural way, and stabilises the bar. It is better to learn how to move without falling over and keeping the bar stable yourself.

For now, that's fine, and you can do "goblet squats" with a dumbbell. Long term, you need to work out why you are struggling with barbell squats, as they are a staple that should be in everyones exercise repertoire.