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My 8month old is about 26lb… my milk is da bomb...

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/muscle-gain/calorie-partitioning-part-1.html This might help?

I'm sure this has been said over and over, but women are brainwashed to care only about aesthetics, that weights are bad and that we need to do endless slow-state cardio. It's soul destroying! Not to mention that dudes are often (sorry I love you guys) arrogant and entitled when it comes to mainstream globe-gyms. It's…

Surprisingly a pretty reasonable article, although I am dubious about #1, drinking water increases metabolism by 30%... really? Maybe if you currently never drink anything at all but for most people I doubt extra H2O will have that much impact (though obviously very good for you).

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This was an awesome thread! highlights were when he didn't know what the big three were and then said he refuted poliquin :) good times

I love this!! Lifting can make you hot, sure. I think the greater thing about it is that you can do it for YEARS and just keep getting better and better. As a sport, there are few to match it in that regard. The best lifters I know are over 40, many amazing ones are over 50. They are all lifting PBs. Think about that,…

This + learning proper bench technique utilising your whole body with hip drive will get your numbers up.

hahaha Alan makes a spunky fairy!

I look at it like this. The goal of your birth is to have the best and safest experience you can in order to bring your baby into the world. The only people that should be present are those that can help you achieve that goal. For some that might be just hubbie, for others it would also include sisters, friends, your…

That's possibly true because your max capacity on a partial squat is going to be less than on a full squat, one is an easier lift than the other. When I think it about this question it always makes me think about olympic lifting. In both C&J and snatch you are not only taking a heavy load well below parallel, you're…

love that you giffed it! awesomeness

Actually they've all said that, exactly that, frequently in this thread. They've invited people to check out their diaries and posted articles about exactly that. Where has a single poster claimed to take more than 20% of their cals from 'junk'?

I've never had this problem as I'm super-flexible, but my husband did take a while to get to parallel due to lack of flexibility. The things that worked for him was lots of mobility exercises and box-squats also helped a lot. He also went to a physiotherapist and got dry-needling on his hip flexors, that really released…

You'd trust the USDA??

I might get flamed for this but I think there is so much more pressure on girls to fit a certain body profile than boys. I was a super sporty teenager and I had a great body (I only realise this now). However I was never tiny or skinny. So despite the fact that I competed at a state level in swimming and water polo and did…

Here's a big WOOOOOT WOOOOOOT for you Taso!!

I've done both together successfully for a fair while. The most important thing is programming, the right hand needs to do what the left hand is doing. e.g. you don't want to be hitting your 1rm week of a PL cycle and get a squat heavy WOD the day before. In my case my CF trainer is a powerlifter too and we trained…

Ha, thats totally it. I used to do the splits or do a backbend and touch my ankles... now I insist on deadlifting people or even on occasion cleaning them ;) Also that pic you posted is pretty much my form. The only knee issue I've ever had was caused by me totally bombing a lift and actually falling in on my knee. That…

By dive-bomb I basically mean losing tension at the bottom of the squat, plunging too fast and not being able to get back up again. If you're like me you can probably sit almost *kitten* on ankles at the bottom of a squat (unweighted). The problem is that with alot of weight on your back you just won't get back up again…

I am hypermobile as well, it does come with its unique challenges, but they can be dealt with. You really have to concentrate on keeping tight the whole way down. I also adopt a slightly narrower stance than normal. So while I do maintain knees over feet, my feet are only slightly pointed out. This gives me more resistance…

Ignore her, "health_gal" spends most of her time on MFP posting that same paragraph on any thread that mentions crossfit, of course she's never done it...

Of those two options diet and nutrition are the most important to weight-loss. As others have said, you can't out-train a bad diet. That being said I personally think that the #1 most important thing to sustained weightloss is compliance. It doesn't matter if you eat perfectly or train perfectly if you only stick at it for…

I eat in bed with the laptop too... that reminds me, I really need to change my sheets.

Sara, you know your *kitten*.... and I likes it! but you need to put your max lifts on your OP too... those are the numbers I love:)

My hubbie is 6'5" and he generally sits between 220 and 240. He's never had a weight problem, definitely in no way overweight! He cut down to 200 for a BJJ comp once and was very lean. So yeah, definitely depends on build.

QFT - higher reps for accessory lifts, max 5 reps for compound lifts.

That's a big maybe:) I don't know if you'd ever really know. The other variable is that you'd have no idea how much your strength would have increased anyway during that time... maybe you would have added that 50lb to your DL without the gain in BW, meaning you would be lifting like 2.8x body weight... It's an interesting…

Agree with other posters, in addition there is another consideration: are your strength goals related to pure numbers on the board or also at power to weight ratio? If its the latter, then I think it would be difficult to balance the the potential strength benefit of the extra muscle gained against the extra bodyweight...…