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Why do you want to cut out caffeine? All the recent health studies show coffee has positive, not negative effects on health. Unless you have a heart condition or some other condition your doctor is recommending you cut it out, or you can't keep from adding a ton of sugar and cream for weight loss, or you are drinking…

Now I'm not one for "programs" but, specifically for bench press, if you are going to commit to increasing this lift, there is a great one out there that I know works: Musclemedia's 7 week bench program. The program claims to add up to 50 pounds to your benchpress within a seven week period, and if you follow it and give…

I guess the world has ended, I'm no competitive eater, and I've eaten more than three to fill up before....and then there is the much more "dangerous": add mayo, raisins and shred the carrots into a salad. Or the more healthful version with yogurt, pineapple, raisins with shredded carrot. ;)

There are so many kinds of leg press machines its hard to say, but sounds like that one has a pulley system which probably causes the lat pull down to have more mechanical advantage than the leg press, making more resistance in comparison for leg press than lat pull. If the gym trainers dont know what ratios are, you can…

Thats usually helpful if you are eating good nutritious foods with fats/proteins. Check the three biggest mistakes: are you weighing/measuring all foods? Are your exercise calories accurate? Are you eating too little and not eating exercise calories back?

Seriously, you need to put every argument pro and con out of your mind for a minute and think about this. If you post advertising for ANYTHING that disguises itself as a "study", you will generate negative responses because its: 1)false, 2)dishonest, and 3)annoying. Would you like a lot more pop-up ads in your reading? I…

If you dont go and eat at least 3-4000+ calories to celebrate your birthday and average out your past months a little more, you've failed your birthday indulgence break! (you need a trip to Round Table for dinner in there -- whats a birthday without pizza?). :) Its almost impossible for ONE day to really matter, if you eat…

Definitely not enough in the low range. Vegetarian diets can have difficulties supplying enough of the right combo of proteins anyways if you dont pay attention and sounds like you are being "sorta vegetarian" some days, which means you definitely dont pay attention to getting the right protein combos.

Definitely do not wait to get slimmer to lift weights. If you do, in the process of getting slimmer you will probably lose muscle mass, and, while heavier you will gain muscle faster than while slim, so you are starting worse off essentially if you wait and shooting yourself in the foot. To aid gaining muscle, weight…

No, thats not what I said, and its also not what the "study" said. All the "study" says is Crossfit elevates calorie burning and elevates HR. My issue is with making these very poorly done studies of a tiny group of samples into something they arent and basically lying with titles of articles about them. Its bad for real…

Well, thats a bunch of misleading baloney and non-science. Statements about this study are all BS, all the study shows is elevated HR and increased calorie burning after two different Crossfit routines, only, thats it and for added effect: durrr? What would you expect after exercise...? And you cant say it "comes out on…

Depends on what your goals are. If your goal is strength, I'd do it. Eating protein after a workout is one of those things that is still debated back and forth, with no real firm science either way, but just like other things, you can take a logical common sense approach to it: if you make proteins more available for…

I try to get spotters for my bench press and once I made the mistake of asking a guy from the russian crowd that hangs around there: every breath was a torture while I was trying to lift! I guess the gym air circulation was blowing the other way when I asked him, it was a nasty surprise. Cultural thing I think, where they…

Hmm, I assume you are Indian, and I'm going to guess you will do some more accurate logging of Indian dishes, so when I go pork out at the Indian buffets I love here I can use your calorie/nutrient numbers? :D Add me if you dont mind, I eat 1200 calories/day...times 2 to 3 though ;)

You dont have to, if you like it, just do it in moderation is all. I personally don't like running because of the increased risk of injury/compression, I get bored of it and bored of aerobic machine substitutes, and my dogs need to walk which means if I do both I use up too much time. So I eliminate the boredom and combine…

Wait, so if I understand correctly, you are wheeling yourself around on a gurney trying to get fit and you hit something and flattened your toe? I'd get off the gurney before the nurses call security and ask why you are wheeling yourself around on one. Running would be good not only for prevention of being confined in a…

Well, this is another issue where "you are both right" and it can be confusing. It is true that consuming grains cannot by itself cause obesity in everyone, because the obesity epidemic is a recent factor. But, the time period we have had agriculture around and eaten grains is not very long evolutionarily. Some people…

It should include the fat, yes, so if you cook with bacon grease that *ONLY YOU* ate, you dont have to add anything else. I wouldnt subtract any calories for the bacon fat coming off when eating the bacon in any case because well...tell me exactly the weight of the fat that came off??? No way are most people ever going to…

^^ perfect. Its likely you are gaining muscle, if your breasts are "not overflowing your bra" anymore they are shrinking, it indicates fat loss, and with "good" genetics for muscle gain you can have such an initial muscle and "muscle preparedness" (glycogen + water storage) gain. But, if you don't log each and every thing,…

Although that is true, "thick" back then is today's "fit". Having some softness there, enough to not show abs I'd expect. I think that that whole idea you write above encourages fatter ladies typically to try belly dancing and promote it with the "you are supposed to be chubby for this" idea. All the fatter ones I've seen…

GJ OP! Try to ignore everyone trying to do math without knowing the real numbers. In fact most of the time we dont realize the numbers we all use are all approximations anyways. The fact is its working for her, finding out what she exactly did for intake and exercise is a good idea for her in the future, but now she's on…

He's a good one to listen to, but most people wont have the attention span to go the whole hour and 40minutes.

In the 40's they did close to what you are doing as an experiment (but they actually ate several times more per day). They lost a dramatic amount of weight after a while, but once they stopped on the diet, they gained back more weight than they originally had, and had an average of 75% more fat than previously. Is that…

You upped your coefficient of gravity. Either that or you added more glycogen and water to your muscles, and your weight fluctuates sometimes as much as +/- 5lbs/day.

Bee pollen/royal jelly is probably better for seasonal allergies as the posters above said, quality varies widely and if you are very allergic to any of the pollen/flowers the bees included in their gatherings, you could have a reaction like the SLLRunner. I have not heard of any reason this would typically aid weight…

Weight training for strength and long term loss, plus maintenance after I reach my goal, plus balancing the amount of food I typically eat. Cardio afterwards for balancing your short term diet, or when you go over and eat half a pizza, that's how I look at it.

Yes that's what I meant, I don't want to scold my food and tell it its really bad :) I just keep coming across these extremely poor entries when I do a search, and I have to weed through several entries that tell you a food item with chicken has no fat and protein to find one with somewhat correct nutritional information…

In the beginning though, the body does become more efficient DURING the activity you practice, but I re-read and realized thats not really your question. I first answered this in a general way thinking it was another beginner question starting into shape, but it looks like I was wrong and you are actually asking about an…

Well, after ignoring the people telling you to get off the machines when you arent using them, consider adding them instead! I would reduce the number of sets you do and increase weight, follow one of the more varied programs for variety to stress the muscles too (lighter weight one day with more reps, heavy weight with…

I wouldnt worry about it. Bodyfat % measures vary so much they are close to useless. I always knew they were inaccurate, but ever since I heard the story from someone who decided to test several different measures on the same day and got numbers up to 10-20% points different, I would never waste the time or money on them.…