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cut carbs, cut sodium, sit in a sauna

Could also be you are not eating / drinking enough? I know if I push myself really hard in a workout, I can feel light headed an hour or so later. If I eat something / drink a lot of water it helps. Maybe a HRM will be useful when exercising, so you don't stay at Max heart rate for too long.

Male, 186#. My work sets are usually around 225 ~ 275. I'm shooting for 315 eventually, (just squatted that!) but I'm taking it easy as I have a L4/L5 disc herniation from 2008. Yes, you can recover without surgery! and YES you can still deadlift!!

Just chiming in on #1. Jim wendler's 5/3/1 program helped me gain a ton of strength AND size, especially for my squat and legs. His program is a mixture of both high weight / low rep sets, followed by sets of volume at lower weight. But see, I think "high rep" is being confused here. You aren't getting anywhere by doing…

Sometimes at the end of your set, your grip just gives out, especially on "As much as possible" sets in 5/3/1. Or 1 rep maxes. Sometimes drops are unavoidable. I miss my old gym, they had round rubber padded (olympic?) plates which are meant to be dropped. I hate deadlifting with the standard hexagonal metal plates.

just read your profile... google translate much? why fake it?

+1

Best way to avoid this is a Heart Rate monitor, so you can (more) accurately track how much you burned.

main things for me 1) proper grip width and what the differences are between the grips 2) tucking the elbows 3) shoulders / lats flat and driven into the bench 4) legs at 80 degrees with your heels driving the movement main problems 1) flaring elbows 2) not full range of motion (similar problem with squats) 3) Legs up / on…

I agree with you, I think what I'm missing is that a lot of people have a different meaning of "cardio". A 10 minute walk on a treadmill is a "warmup" and definitely should be done before weight training. It gets your blood flowing and can help prevent injury. But to me, "cardio" could be a 5 mile run @ a 10:00 minute…

care to explain?

I think Bench press is one of the hardest to do -properly-. A lot of people do this very, very wrong.

It also depends on the type of cardio, and for how long. HIIT? Interval training? Steady state cardio? 15 minutes? 30 minutes? an hour? Long story short... the longer you do cardio, on the same day / near a strength workout, you will destroy all of your gains / progress from the strength training. If you plan to do steady…

Losing weight != fat loss. you're lifting weights. You are a male, and have testosterone. You're probably putting on some muscle. Better to track your progress by body fat %, and/or body measurements.