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You shouldn't have any problems with spotters because first off, the only exercise that really is relatively necessary to have a spotter for in the gym is bench press. And secondly, you are a girl starting off, so you won't be doing much weight, which means just about anyone can keep the weight going, added to your pushing…

So, on the internet, your "sniff test" doesn't go off on this and you are going to give someone called "FattyPatty" the benefit of the doubt when they sound like they are making fun of fat people saying they ate a 12,000+ calorie breakfast, drinking 3 cups of butter, 1.5L coffee, dozen eggs, loaf of bread and TWO chocolate…

So people are supposed to believe you eat 3 cups of butter with your two whole chocolate cake, 40 slice of bacon and loaf of bread breakfast and never realized you ate that much? Its not really cool to make fun of even, people who get near that big don't drink butter like you are implying.

But it doesnt work like that, everyone does lose some muscle when losing weight, if its a significant amount of weight, and even if they dont notice that or didn't appear to lose muscle, they do reduce the capacity to gain as much strength as fast as they used to. I know I used to go up in strength faster than I do now,…

40 visits does sound like a lot for an old injury, and pre-paid. But, nobody here is advising as a doctor, knowing anything about your case other than what little you said, get another opinion from another one, or two.

Make it a game: shove the cart with enough force and accuracy to get in the cart return from 20-30 or more feet away (depending on the cart's feel) and hope that it is just enough to stick it, but not too much so that it rebounds out, or changes direction and you have to go run after it before it hits a car ;)

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That's when you talk to her, saying "Wow, that was tough doing the squats challenge, my friends and I on facebook are doing it every morning, adding more squats every day, have you heard of it?" and demonstrate a partial squat for her, avoiding this whole scenario.... but now...complain to HR first, you have to now...…

That's probably a belief based on observation of the end results, and jumping to a conclusion: if you do exercise, you will have bigger muscles because you use them more than someone who doesn't. Everyone can increase muscle mass, and once they do, you will conclude they like exercise. But that assumption doesn't follow…

Go with your HRM for steady state aerobics, its likely the most accurate. Your interval type workout you did will cause the burn to register higher and be way off, which it did as expected from what you wrote, use machine minus whatever percent average difference you get machine vs HRM for steady state aerobics.

Do you regularly exercise? That seems to help more with changing blood cholesterol than weight I've noticed. Also, the RATIO of HDL to LDL has been shown to be more important than the absolute LDL number in several studies, so if your HDL is high too, may not be much of an issue. Yes, it could be genetics too, in fact I…

Who cares about BMI if its not fat. I plan to never be out of "overweight" if I can help it. BMI is only a crude general guide for average people, not weightlifters. "The Rock" is "obese" btw...

Well actually lifting decreases diastolic blood pressure, raises HDL, lowers cholesterol and decreases insulin levels in many studies. An anecdotal "study" of myself and others I know shows it lowers blood pressure, and lowers resting heart rate. Its easy to get conflicting data though, especially if you look at lifters…

I bought a second hand toaster from a guy who says he knows Brad Pitt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yazr8JkazmE

It depends on what you mean by lifting to failure. Many people mean lifting until you cant complete another rep in semi OK form. But others mean doing reps until you can barely do the last rep. Still others think this means lifting until you fail on one weight, then reducing the weight, and going again, until you can…

I keep an average around 3,000/day and am losing some still, but transitioning into more of a maintaining/recomping to increase strength is the real focus and I vary widely depending on what I do that day.

Well...everyone gets harassed in high school, I sure did. Try to ignore them and focus on what you want to do. It gets easier if you let it go, harder if you don't.

Wow thats a lot of text and conditions and issues. Cant go through all of that, but sounds like maybe you have muscles that cramp sometimes, and maybe some of the muscle pain is due to using/"finding" muscles you didnt use much before and let get out of shape. If your doctors don't find any issues, I'd try to gradually…

First off, you need to make sure you verify you have no health conditions affecting this after a checkup with your doctor. If so, and your blood pressure is fine, and you are not having energy problems, then its typically not a problem. Its very common to have a low resting rate as you get more and more fit. Athletic…

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Your body staying at the same weight will tend to gradually "recomp" some fat into muscle and circulatory tissue to a point, and you will "look better", and compared to not exercising yes your muscle tone in the muscles will be firmer, but maybe not as much of a visual change as you want. However, I think the health…

^ Worse than not racking is the not putting them in the proper place. Some dufuses in my gym consistently rack all the little plates, especially 5's 10s and 2.5s on the rack after the 45s... I'd much rather pick them up off the floor than have to un rack and re-rack each little plate to get to a 45 first. Its getting so…

You are a girl, no problem with you going up and talking to a guy. Guys on the other hand run the risk of over sensitive girls putting on the "perv" or "he's a creeper" label very easily, so guys tend to shy away from doing this. At least with the guys I know. I used to be more friendly working out, but I've become very…

I'm not quite 6' and I'd be feeling hunger rage with that lack of food, later maybe laying in bed not able to get up...I really dont think he's eating half of enough...especially if he's exercising I wouldnt expect him to be able to last on that much longer. OK you want a man salad? I eat this salad and love it, off the…

*Edit nm, I read 50 reps not 50 as a weight, which is what I think you mean now? Sets of 5-10 is not bad, sets of 50 or more is not good for much except repetitive stress.

Right, so if you look backwards at her data, she would have lost far more weight than she did if her numbers for burn were correct. So how can we get her to look backwards? I remember looking at her data and fitbit was logged in her exercise, so no it is over estimated and included, at least when I looked and did a…

Nice find illustrating why I don't like using them at all. Way too many error sources to be reliable info. I've personally had one record huge amounts when I did next to nothing in effort, and another one record next to nothing when I hiked a tough mountain. After that I tossed out the idea of using them. *Edited to say…

She called me a pig too! But wait, I checked her profile, she must not have because that would be judgmental and rude, and she doesn't do that: "I'm done accepting requests from guys. Also had to make my diary "friends only" because some of you people are too judgmental and rude "

Yup ^ I think people should just leave the thread alone now, she's doing well, but for the wrong assumed reasons, her errors are cancelling out, and she doesn't want to hear about it. End result is she's doing fine, so its all good.

There is no "set point" It depends on how closely you watch and modify your macro and micro nutrients, your medical conditions, your genetic possible factors and it becomes more difficult to get enough of everything the bigger the deficit. That's why they list 1200/day minimum and -2lbs/wk max. Not because you CANT do…