JamesAnimalMcWilliams

London! Only moved here 10 months ago from South Africa! Moving to North Yorkshire in 10 days! Army here I come

generally speaking, if it's a free weight, you're having to use stabilisation muscles, which means you're using more muscle to do an exercise and therefore burning more calories based on the effort. You can do leg press if you want, nobody will tell you not to, but using a free bar and doing squats will definitely be a…

Try a podiatrist as well, I have flat feet, and it was a factor as well as my shoes in my shin splints!

Bulking/Cutting Cycles aren't really necessary at all in my opinion, unless you're bodybuilding. For you, stick to a healthy diet, watch your calories. For example, on days that you're training, you want to be doing cardio and some gym stuff. Your body will burn fat trying to fuel your muscles along with the calories…