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Progress should be rated vs you, where you started, its’s the only reasonable approach. If you start with 50lbs on a lift, that 5lb increase on that lift is much more progress for you than it is for the guy doing 200lbs on the same lift who might vary more than that because of the weather today. Whats your reason for…

I would think its pretty easy to keep that high if you are lifting heavy, and just reduce your rest time between sets, lighten the weight and do more reps. Use that same HRM they must be tracking to see how long you should rest between sets and do the next set before your heart rate goes down too significantly. Once you…

The problem is, its what keeps HER on the planet longer, which may be different from what would do that for you or your brother. Part of that can be "tradition" or what she feels is "normal" and "good". Also, it seems her diet has kept her in good shape till her 80's, so it doesn't exactly seem like its a problem, even…

Hmm, thats really not accurate as to the studies commonly referred to, or addiction, and only part of the story: the old studies showing rats would continue to ingest drugs even until death, were shown to not be the result of the drugs wholly, but isolation and boredom with exposure to drugs. Not only this, but the "rat…

Damn, things like that make me reconsider not hiking armed, I'm usually alone with a knife now that my dog is older. Black bears I've seen on my hikes are not half as dangerous as humans like that. Since we have only black bears and mountain lions in the area, black bears are typically more wary of you than you are of them…

On first glance at your small picture you have 3 unequal legs and one arm and I'm not sure what exercises would fit for your anatomy...fun small image first impressions :D On a more serious note, what do you mean by "tone"? Small screen gives a funny first impression of your photo, there is really nothing wrong with it…

Please ignore the advice above, but keep this in mind for bench press lifting: if you are benching alone with a free bench ALWAYS bench without collars, and if you are lifting with safety bars, ALWAYS make sure the weight is not going to be on you when the weight comes down to land on the safety bars, or the safety bars…

I would definitely not use the smith machine, since you are a new lifter, it's a good idea to start off with proper mechanics, bar path and exercise stabilization muscles as well, and a smith machine does not allow any of these points. The other problem is, if you dont set it up properly, or forget to rotate your wrists…

I see a few Garmin vivoactive HR users here, have any of you noticed its behavior change in the past week? I was pretty happy with everything until this past week. Mine used to post activities on MFP and it doesn't now, which isn't a huge thing, but I also noticed some days this week it didn't have a negative value for…

Definitely do bench if possible instead of multi gym press, unless you have a shoulder injury. If you want to increase your bench, definitely look up Muscle Media's "Add 50LBS To Your Bench Press" Program. It's a great program, got me to 425lbs back when I had a reliable spotter, over +50lbs for me following it. I don't…

Hypertrophy/size is not a great gauge of strength really, and women's size is going to be on average a little less anyways even for a similar strength for a guy's. Also, your triceps are going to influence the measurement of circumference too remember, sometimes more depending on what you do...

10 min isn't so bad, the idea is just don't exhaust the muscles, or your available energy, since these impact maximal strength in lifts especially. This means it not only depends on how intense a workout you do before, but also depends on what kind of lifting: if you are going to do say 20 rep sets of a weight you aren't…

Blood flow to torn muscle tissue will probably result in a hematoma...she's not doing anything to cause that, and she didn't talk about any other traumas. Anyways OP, definitely you need to log everything, and give it more time before expecting to actually see results, and remember, just a body composition change is a…

Now that might be just a little on the extreme end...at least I hope, heh.

First off, why don't you ask your husband what he means by "beastly"? I'm going to guess its probably a compliment to him. If it really isn't a compliment, it can be more of a jealousy not a dislike, especially if he doesn't put on muscle easily...most guys wouldn't mind strong looking calves on women in the least and I'd…

Right when you are eating vegetarian foods only its tougher to get high protein, and what you are doing is great, I'd say very good for health in general when I last looked at your diet, but even though you aren't trying to lose weight its still a diet! Well those are more specific statements, the last one I completely…

I'm guessing thats a response to my post, as I said before, you are at least counting your calories and your protein, or else you wouldn't come to about the same calories every night, or eat edemame beans so frequently in portions that vary by day to bring your protein up to a similar higher level. (I also notice you have…

You are watching them, I just opened your diary with pages of truth showing you watch your calories very closely, and seem to also eat edamame beans in many servings to try to get a particular level of protein...so much for not watching what you eat, you watch it like a hawk ;) I also know most people would say that…

Damn, dont do that, women are better spotters and then you'll add this "are you flirting with me like Captain Fantastic" element to when I ask :P

Awesome pictures! I wonder how it looks today....

When you are hitting a wall especially (and in theory always) you need to: weigh your foods, accurately log and track all the foods, evaluate what burns you are being told you get exercising honestly (300 cals is probably a large amount of activity for a girl, not as much for a large male for example), realize that weight…

One of the big problems here is you never know who you are talking to or the specifics of the individual case which may completely skew the resultant response. I listened to part of the posted Broderick talk and generally seems like he's talking relatively good sense there, he isn't talking about lowering it very low for…

You are talking about an estimated average minimum, some people need more or less depending on their independent body's function and any genetic differences that nobody will be aware of until you reach that deficit. One of the big problems with low fat is having enough fat available to keep your nervous system functioning…

Hmmm, I'd say the whole living alone thing is really "the grass is greener" syndrome. Its much much much easier to lose weight if you have reasonable self control while living alone, in fact I'd say exponentially easier. In theory you can "share" maybe, in reality they: want something else/don't want to share/want to try…

If you can hold each rep for 15 sec or more you are going way to light for any kind of standard weight training. What does the person who told you this think they would be trying to do with a 15 second hold on each rep?

Changing someone's name for some racist idiots who used it as a derogatory slur is not a reasonable expectation, especially since as you are noting here, its in your mind where the offense is. There is significantly large issue with asking someone to change their own name, history and identity, and in this case past…

I would add it back on principal as CoonBrand with no space or some such so it does not get removed automatically, this seems the only reasonable explanation as to why it disappears in one minute. Plus it should be very clear to anyone reasonable that its not the offensive meaning.

Coon cheese, Bega and Toe Jam, any other unique Australian cheese names? I assumed Coon cheese must be either some reference to the inventor or the masked night bandits making away with it, but I have no idea on Bega, and Toe Jam sounds the worst of them all...

And unfortunately as to the topic, yeah 1 month isn't going to get the avg person far on getting a flat stomach or showing abs, it's all dependent on info you havent given: starting bodyfat and starting exercise lvls. Strength training and exercise repetition training do help but really, its 90% about how much body fat you…

Sooo, that says they will do some update at a later date to make it clear what it means...very unhelpful as to some "word"/definition on what they mean. I would just use it however you'd like really since its not definitive what the heck it means. I'd say a reaction point is another useless point of data that means nothing…