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Stick with the program and concentrate on form. Think about it. If you do the program 3X/week and you start squatting with just the bar (45 lbs), then in three months you will squat 225 lbs. You also need time for your grip to strengthen, to get your tendons and ligaments used to the movements and weight and so on.

It was a great job when I was young, single and no kids! Flying around in helicopters, living in tents (basically camping all summer), doing science but being outside. It was fantastic. But then the burdens of life come along and your priorities change...

I run a small office and since I am the boss, I provide fresh fruit for everybody during the week as snacks. The job is very sedentary so I try to get up and do a walkabout every hour or so and if I don't have a lunch on, I'll get out for a walk over the lunch hour. It is a 10-hour day and by the time I get home I am ready…

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Update: I have purchased Lyle Macdonald's Rapid Fat Loss Handbook, continued with the lifting 3X/wk but no cardio. Can't follow the handbook to a "T". Hitting my protein numbers comfortably but not goingentirely "no carb" as I eat fruit as snacks. Taking fish oil. Probably 200-500 cal/day deficit resulted in dropping down…

God bless ya.

As a hard gainer, I can really only hope for Ottermode; currently between skinny and Otter. Always liked otters. They seem to have a lot of fun...

I would mix up the run with some interval work. Nothing crazy, but just plodding along at the same 10 minute mile pace will probably require a longer time/more effort than mixinig in some stuff that makes your lungs hurt. Why not try both and see what works best for you?

I strongly (pun intended) downloading the Starting Strength ebook ($10) by Mark Rippetoe. Dense read but well worth it and a good resource for the future.

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I think as you add weight you will find you will get a nice stretch which should give you that tiny bit more you need to go below parallel. The other thing I would point out is that your wrists are bent. Try to position them on the bar so they are straight while still maintaining a tight back. As for leaning forward, I…

So true. calorie deficit = weight loss. Pure and simple. But any diet that promotes eating a ton of fruits and veggies along with protein has to be beneficial in the long haul. Getting your daily calories by eating a pint of ice cream and nothing else is probably not the way to go long-term. I would also add that people…

I like the USTA's longer-term approach on this. With the number of calories this young lady burns daily through training, there must be some room for improvement. Serena is a big woman but there is a tremendous amount of muscle contributing to the bigness. With the right attitude (which she actually seems to have) and…

Have at 'er. My 12 year old is doing Stronglifts with me and we really enjoy the time together. I would suggest he works out with an adult and gets the form right. Agree with the confidence. Plus, he will be developing a good habit that will carry him through life. The whole growth plate thing is nonsense. Bad form though…

This is a commonly held misconception.

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Thank you all for the outstanding advice. I'll follow up with researching the various ideas put forth and then go from there. We'll see if this elderly body can outgun a youngster.

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Just because you don't like walking lunges isn't an excuse not to do them. I HATE them and do them twice a week.

I usually don't respond to these posts (but I lurk and admire all the time). But dude, congrats!!! That is an AMAZING effort in such a short period of time. It's easy for us to all ignore our own health when busy with family, work, volunteer work etc. but you turned it around big time! Fan-freakin-tastic.

Nah. Maybe it's because I am from Canuckistan. Seriously, no but probably because I have never been a contact sport guy. My motivation for getting stronger tends to be so I don't throw my back out moving furniture. Feel free to kick my *kitten* for such a p**sy response. Great thread.

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Rest up to 5 minutes between sets. You'll get 'er if you do that based on how your other lifts have progressed.

Thanks for these suggestions. I may give this a try. I've decreased my working set to 3X5 and I'm squatting 2X per week, with the third workout incorporating 5 sets of weighted walking lunges with a small barbell (40 lbs) on my back. This is a surprisingly challenging exercise but what is good is that you can really…

Just work out on the driveway. At least until the snow flies.

Lots of ways to do it but I have these foam blocks in our gym that are about the size of a banana bread loaf. Two on top of each other is perfect. Others use plates but that is a lot of weight to move around just to get a bar off the floor.

Hell no. Keep tweaking quad muscles on squat weight that I should be able to be just fine on.

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Thanks guys. I guess my thinking is that with the warmups they tend to get the muscle fibers firing so going to the working set without doing the warmups could limit the adaptation required to do the working set. As an aside, I am 3X5 on my working set for squats. 5X5 was too tough for me to recover from. I will try fewer…

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