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A daily deficit of 500 kcal will produce 1 lb of weight loss per week. Losing at a rate of 1 lb per month indicates a true daily deficit of around 116 kcal on average.

Always exercise. If you are also attempting to maintain a calorie deficit, just be sure you account for the calories burned during exercise. What I mean by that is that if you are attempting to lose one pound per week (500 calories per day deficit) and you typically burn 2,000 calories per day WITHOUT exercising, if you…

Replace the Whopper with the DQ double cheeseburger and the cigar with a Dilly bar. Problem solved.

Anytime a question starts with “ribeye or…” the answer is ribeye.

I agree that the pyramid style "increasing weight, decreasing weight, all sets to failure" approach probably isn't best for hypertrophy. 3-5 working sets of a straight 8-15 reps, coming within a rep or two of failure is likely going to be much better.

Trade the shrugs for seated cable rows x 3 and you've got a solid intermediate routine in my opinion. Shrugs isolate the upper traps. The seated rows will hit the traps overall as do the deadlifts. Adding the rows back in gives you six sets each of vertical and horizontal pulls. But that's just what I'd do. Your goals may…

If you want to actually solve the problem there's a huge difference. If you only care about the symptoms, not so much. Of course, treating only the symptom while ignoring the root cause simply allows the real problem to become worse and worse, creating more and more disparity.

Need? No. Can? Definitely. When you're only hitting back once per week, 3-5 sets of vertical pulls won't be enough volume. Doing 5 sets of pull-ups and 5 sets of lat pulls is definitely more enjoyable (and more feasible) than 10 sets of pull-ups.

I don't think it's too much back work The same principle of 10-15 working sets applies to back as it does to chest (and pretty much the whole body, really). Increase your sets from 3 to 5 (but only if you go to something more like a traditional 5x5 approach...I don't know about that many sets using your current pyramid…

They can (I personally hit everything but legs twice a week) but you could also just do something other than dips. That was just an example. Close grip bench would be just as good. Both are great overall triceps exercises that hit all three heads well.

Agreed, volume is low if this is your only chest day and your goal is muscle growth. For growth, you really want to shoot for 10-15 working sets per muscle, per week. Right now, your chest is only getting 6 sets and tris are getting worked on 9 but only focused on for 3. I'd increase each of these movements from 3 sets to…

Not hating on your idea, just genuinely asking: What's the purpose of the chain? Generally, chains are used on barbells for lifts like bench and squat, their purpose being that they lay on the ground while the weight is low and get lifted as you lift the bar, making it actually heavier on the high end of the lift than when…

Under 30 lbs, they typically go up in 2.5 lbs increments. Over 30 lbs, smaller increments are generally unnecessary.

A closer look at the info in this article reveals that the survey did not use a national sample, but rather selected employees from 3 specific areas with extremely high costs of living and high rates of homelessness. The one example it gives of an employee who has to earn recycling money to afford food was essentially…

That's an elite level physique. The number of 5' 7" dudes walking around at 200 lbs and a healthy body fat % is extraordinarily low.

Yeah, when I read the question my internal monologs said, "Both." Heavy weight AND controlled reps. Not so heavy that you can only do quick jerky shrugs but also not so light that you can do them all day. Just heavy enough that you can squeeze out 12 or so slow reps, holding the contraction at the top.

"There is no honor in defeat." Lol

Having preferences is fine but the topic is "what is liveable." I think we can all agree that an income level that allows for us to have all of our "wants" without having to budget or manage our money wisely is far more than just "liveable." I'd even argue it far surpasses "comfortable." There's a big difference between "I…

The back extensions are the first thing I'd cut. You're already hitting your erector spinae with the deadlifts and rows (not to mention likely during your leg workout, as well).

You lost me at "whatever food you want without worrying about its cost." I think if you have so much income that you no longer have to manage how much you spend on food, you've well surpassed a liveable wage. I'd have to be pretty wealthy in order to allow myself the privilege of having ribeye as often as I'd like to have…

In the Midwest, a family of four can live quite comfortably (not just surviving) on that amount if they're smart with their money.

The price consumers are willing to pay for goods/services is not artificial.

Anecdotally, our baby was born in April 2020, during peak lockdowns. We haven't raised her as though there is a lockdown. We've acted as though life is normal, taking her to church, the store, restaurants, get-togethers, family and friends' homes, play dates, etc.. Why? Among other reasons, because as a baby, lack of…

You make it sound like they're running a slave operation and their employees have no options. You're arguing against bad assumptions rather than the actual points. The point was that increasing wages decreases profits. Some on here indicated that they think this is just fine. The point you're being presented with is that…

Artificial wage minimums are not fair market value.

To be fair, I think that more so illustrates that pandemic conditions are not liveable in the long term.

I'd love to use the seated cable row machine but I have to wait on these two to get done with the leg press. (Yes, they are using the cable row machine exclusively as a seat and shelf for their stuff and no they are not new)

It's like if there are 3 handicapped parking spots and no one is using them. There could easily be three people show up to use them while you're still in one. And if the other two get filled, now there are none. Will the person curling or doing upright rows now vacate the rack? No, generally they will finish their set,…

Here's a new one for me: Bro next to me is doing upright rows in the squat rack. Couple weeks ago had a different bro curling in the power rack but uprights in an actual squat rack is one I've not seen before.

I'm personally fond of this lab/shepherd cross. I call it "Shiloh the Wondermutt." My daughter is fairly partial to him, as well. :) Edit: First two pics are from early/mid summer. Last pic is earlier today.