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I'm weightsovrdates on bb.com :D
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Hi Steph!! Good luck with your journey :D
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You can get stronger but your muscles won't grow in size as much. Reading that article it seems more related to newbie gains and/or utilizing existing body fat as an energy source over caloric intake and affects beginners rather than intermediate lifters. So while she has 15kg to go this is only going to work for a short…
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It all has to do with the ratio of fast twitch and slow twitch muscles (plus high can sometimes be a factor) if you notice a lot of stronglift guys are pretty short.
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What do you mean by context? If you aren't eating at maintenance or at a surplus (after exercising) your body will be in a catabolic state unless you are also taking an anti-catabolic but even that has limiting factors. If you keep lifting you will retain you strength gains but you are most certainly going to lose some…
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If by building you mean something along the lines of lean bulking (putting on muscle and not too much fat) for that you need to eat at roughly 15 - 20% extra calories (from maintenance) if you want to do just normal bulking you'd probably be looking at eating close to an extra 1000 - 1500 calories but weight gain (fat)…
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Like the guys said 5 x 5 is a weight training style that focuses on compound moves, if you follow the 'official' 5 x 5 program it will focus on roughly 3 lifts a week covering bench press, squat, deadlift, overhead press and the bent over row. The primary goal of 5 x 5 is to increase strength and give beginner and advance…
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I suffered a sports injury to my left knee during a game of hockey and I lift weights 5x a week, so having a knee injury has really caused issues for me, so after I had a bit of looking all I have seemed to find in terms of weights is straight leg deadlifts, because they don't require you to bend your knees but they still…
