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Don't forget just moving the placement of your hands in pushups can work out different muscle groups dramatically. Diamonds, hands under shoulders, hands outside of shoulders, dive bombers, inclines, declines, negatives, one arm, fingertips, etc. In addition to some of the other exercises mentioned (pull-ups, dips) don't…

Correct, because MFP calculates based on time, and that's a terrible way to estimate weight lifting. Lifting a 45 pound dumbbell will fire up more muscles (and burn more calories) than lifting 45 pounds with a cable. Both of which fire up more calories than using a machine. Shoulder presses with a dumbbell while standing…

I like to use the weekly summary MFP provides as my baseline measurement. Handles just this situation. Basically, the answer is no, it's not bad.

Possibly look into High Intensity Interval Training on something like an elliptical where you're using your whole body. Good for high calorie burn without seriously engaging muscle growth. You can set the resistance to be fairly low and keep your strides per minute quite high. Swimming is another great alternative, of…

Tone muscle: The continuous and passive partial contraction of the muscles, or the muscle’s resistance to passive stretch during resting state. Please note, this isn't something you actually do to a muscle. It's a result of things you do. If you're doing 30 reps of any exercise straight, you are really only doing a form of…

11 pounds in one month... 3500 calories in a pound * 11 pounds = 38,500 calories / 30 days ~= 1280 calories per day. That's 1280 calories EXTRA over maintenance every day. If your maintenance is 1500 calories, that means you're eating 2780 calories per day. That's a lot of extra food. Some of that has to be water weight,…

There are some good body weight programs out there. The prison workout is probably one of the best known: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/prison-workout/#axzz2iSZ7s8sy General advice for weightlifters on protein is to base it on either lean body mass or body weight. 1 gram per pound is the general rule.

You may want to try to lower your carbs and increase your protein. MFP notoriously sets protein levels too low. You may also want to track sodium (which causes you to retain fluid). That being said, normal body weight fluctuates by up to 3 pounds. So it's possible/probable that you've lost more than 2.5 pounds but it's…

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/102-new-rules-of-lifting-for-women-nrol4w A group dedicated to users just like you :)

Where you eat above maintenance and take a rest. Generally making sure all your macros are evenly topped off. Fills up your glycogen stores, replenishes muscles, etc.

Photos in your undies every 30 days. You basically have residual self image. It's where you see yourself as you basically used to be, not as you are.

For me it was about changing my goals and realizing it was a process. My goal used to be similar to yours: Lose weight or get to XXX pounds. Then I realized that losing weight isn't something you do. It's a result of the things you do. As long as I was focused on a result (which is out of my control) then I was bound for…

Protein after strength. Carbs after aerobics.

If you have MFP set to lose X number of pounds a week, then yes you should eat them back. If you have MFP set to lose 0 lbs a weeks, then no, don't eat them back. FWIW, my preferred method for a long time was to set MFP to 0 and not eat back exercise calories. I basically just logged them as 1 calorie burned per exercise.…

So you eat 1300 calories, and burn 500 calories in exercise? So that's giving your growing body 800 calories to live with? To keep your blood warm, to keep your bones strong, to keep your hair healthy, to keep your hormones balanced, to keep your brain functioning, to fight off infections, too regenerate lost skin cells,…

I'm just going to point this out: If you believe that eating fewer calories than you burn every day will result in weight loss... And you are not losing weight for a month or more... Then you are eating more calories than you burn every day. So either you are miscalculating calories in or you are miscalculating calories…

In the long run you will have much better results bulking then cutting. And you need to eat a boat load of protein at maintenance to gain any muscle, but your gains are going to be slow, slow, slow. That being said, if you're new to lifting weights most of your strength gains are going to come from neural pathways as…

It's .00032 calories per pound per foot (foot pounds) to lift a weight. Of course, if you take a long time on the downward phase this will go up, etc. Also, your body is terribly inefficient at lifting weight. It may take you 5 to 10 calories to apply that 1 calorie to lifting the weight. So if you do 15 sets of 8 reps at…

Closed profile, so hard to say. Maybe you're eating food that's high in liquid, like watermelon. Maybe you're an older guy and its time to get your prostate checked.

You can always create your own food with the corrected amounts if it bothers you. Eventually the math gets pretty easy. For example, you know a tsp is 1/3 a TB. So change the portion size to 1 TB, and enter .33 in the quantity. Done. If that's all you ever use, it will be the default next time you select it anyway.

Jerky. One of the best sources of protein and only protein around.

It might be easier to help if you open your diet. A commonly observed effect, though, is that occaisional feeding days is a great way to jump start your metabolism. Many people swear by this, and there is some research to support it. Finally, when you say "you swear it smaller" do you mean "I get a tape measure, and danged…

I think it's sad that he had the gym in california where he trained take down all his competition posters. Supposedly he didn't want people to be reminded of the time in his life when he used anabolic steroids. As if using them took anything away from the incredible amount of work and determination he applied every damn…

What impresses me most is the changes in your face. You obviously have so much more inner confidence and strength as well.

Going by the scale is a recipe for disaster. Remember where you will gain water weight when you start lifting? If you wait until youre down to 115 it will be a misleading and discouraging effort. If you feel the need, get yourself a scale that also measures body fat %. If you want to start below maintenance, thats fine,…

I'm not going to say this is the best method for a bulking/cutting cycle, but given that you have some reluctance in this area, this may work well for you. The benefit is that it will take quite a long time before you actually start bulking. This will give you some time to adjust to it mentally, as well as allow your body…

Generally speaking, you can't spot reduce. That being said, there is research to suggest that where your body stores fat in the first place is affected by a number of factors. That means, over time, it is possible to "shift" your fat stores. I'm not claiming this is gospel. For every study that shows an effect, there's…

Short answer: yes Explanation: First off, there is a difference between trained and untrained muscles. Trained muscles are better. They can store more glycogen (energy), they utilize glycogen more efficiently, and they use more free fatty acids. Now, lets say your maintenance is 1500 calories a day. And you eat strictly…

As your muscle mass climbs by doing strength training your maintenance calories goes up. Muscle requires more fuel to maintain than fat. So yeah, as the above poster said, start lifting heavy weights. Enjoy your food.

There's actually a number of different versions of bluetooth HRMs, but you should be careful about what you're getting and check to make sure the version you're getting is compatible. There is bluetooth 2.0 and 3.0 and not all apps can handle both. Your phone may not even be able to handle them. The best thing to do, imo,…