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I'm bulking right now and taking in 4000-4500 calories a day and I'm trying to do it as clean as possible. As you might assume, it gets hard to shovel down food every 2 hours especially when you get bloated and feel disgusting. One thing that seems to really help me with this is taking an enzyme complex with every meal.…

Lemon juice contains Citric acid which donates a hydrogen ion but will also consume a hydrogen ion in metabolizing the conjugate base so it therefore is neutral in terms of the acid/base load it presents to the body. Orange juice however contains mostly potassium citrate which has no hydrogen ion to donate but still…

I'm doing Mike O'hearns power bodybuilding program on BB.com. It's worked pretty well as it combines powerlifting/strength rep ranges with more traditional bodybuilding/hypertrophy rep ranges. I run twice a week (6-8 miles/run) and will usually do light cardio to help with recovery. I started at around 225 and am now at…

Stay off the scale if you can. Building muscle and retaining water is gonna make the number on the scale go up but remember in the end it is just that, a number. Don't let an arbitrary number on a scale dictate how you feel about your body. Go lift heavy, get jacked, and proceed to throw that scale out the window.

This^ 1. Eat. Eat a lot. 2. Lift heavy. If you can lift something more than 12 times, it's too light. 3. You're 19 so assuming you don't have a hormone disorder your testosterone is pretty much maxed out right now. Testosterone "boosters" are almost universally junk anyways. Don't waste your money. 4. N.O. Fury I can't…

Did you do any physical therapy afterwards? You need to strengthen and stretch the muscles around your ankle or everything is going to hurt. Calf raises, dorsiflexion, draw figure 8's with your toes, roll your arch on a tennis ball, and stretch your calves and Achilles' tendons. Work on doing that then you will be able to…

Ice, NSAIDs, and rest for now. If you can, try to get on a stationary bike or elliptical and just go nice and slow for 20-30 minutes to get some blood flow. Also it may hurt like hell initially but if you can foam roll your quads it should help too. Just to clarify, is your leg swollen or is there any bruising or…

The burn results from a build up of lactic acid which usually happens with more prolonged exertion or fast, anaerobic exercises like sprints. It's just an accumulation of metabolic waste and doesn't necessarily correlate with the effort you are exerting. Muscles grow (hypertrophy) due to progressive overload on the muscle…

Alright to settle the whole "you don't need carbs" debate. Your body stores the carbs you take in as glycogen and also converts excess to fat. Your preferred source of energy comes from glycogen stores in your liver and muscle tissue. If you stop eating carbs for a short period of time, your liver begins gluconeogenesis to…

Not to scare you but be sure you ask your doc about pheochromoctyoma. It usually presents with headache, sweating, and racing heartbeat and could explain random anxiety attacks especially one that woke you up from sleeping.

Don't use them. If you can't go down far enough it's a combination of having tight muscles or a weak posterior chain. Stretch your calves a lot and foam roll your hips (especially your piriformis as this gets pretty tight in most people) chances are you aren't activating your glutes enough when you squat. This makes you…

Little trick for staying on your heels when you squat is to lift your big toes off the ground the entire time. At the very least it will shift your weight back slightly and put more stress on the posterior chain. Another way to help your form is to do box squats. Find a bench or stack the boxes for step class up to a…

Sorry sunshine, my mistake. Proceed with weighted air humping.

Have you considered doing lunges or split squats? They're compounds so you'll burn more calories, work your core and they hit your glutes pretty damn hard if you do em right. Everytime I see people doing hip thrusts with a lot of weight across their hips it makes me cringe, just looks like a perforated bladder or something…

He can eat mcdonalds if he wants but it's his body he's trashing, not mine. What good is bulking and gaining muscle if your body has to rot on the inside to get there.

Those are all pretty much my mainstays. Oatmeal, sweet potatoes, quinoa, and Ezekiel bread.

I'm bulking (at 233lbs right now) and I still run 2-3 times a week at distances of 5-8 miles. Just be sure you are eating more complex carbs to help refill muscle glycogen and ensure you stay in a calorie surplus. Collegiate and NFL players run their *kitten* off and yet still put on muscle. It all just comes down to how…

Usually do EDM for cardio 1) This is what it feels like - Armin van Buuren 2) Pacific coast highway - Kavinsky 3) Giorgio by Moroder - Daft Punk 4) Strobe - Deadmau5 5) Freedom - Avicii All are good, fast paced and upbeat songs

Having a designated meal prep day for the week was honestly the best thing I ever did regarding my diet. I cook up about 7 lbs of chicken breast and 5 lbs of ground turkey breast, bake like 10 sweet potatoes and cook up several cups worth of quinoa or brown rice and then portion it out into Tupperware and freeze them/put…

You can do seated calf raises. Just sit on the edge of your bed or in a chair and do em just like you would if you were standing. It's not gonna offer much resistance so just really squeeze hard at the top of the movement. Also you could do standing calf raises but just be sure you are holding on to something in case your…

Tendinitis is usually due to overuse. It could also be patellofemoral syndrome which would also flare up with overuse. Does the knee lock up or feel like it's going to buckle and give way? Are you relatively new to working out? Do you recall feeling any pops or snaps when it first started hurting? I'm guessing its…

Wait until 24 hours after your fever is gone to go back to work or the gym otherwise you're likely to still be contagious. Other than that you've just gotta take it easy and ease back into your routine. Light resistance training and cardio can actually make you feel better and speed up recovery as long as you can tolerate…

Iron deficient anemia usually manifests as easy bruising and fatigue. Pretty much the only way for your body to get rid of iron is to bleed and as women have a menstrual cycle they are often more prone to having lower iron. If you are worried about it, get some blood work done by your doc prior to starting iron…

Caffeine withdrawals are most likely, especially if you've stopped drinking caffeinated beverages recently. caffeine headaches usually hit around the same time everyday too(usually mid afternoon) and will gradually lessen over a week or two. It's highly unlikely you would have any cerebral edema (brain swelling) from only…

Insanity is a DVD series you can control if I'm not mistaken? If that's the case, just take a day off, especially if you are relatively new to working out. If a total rest day is out of the question I would recommend 30 min of light cardio (bike or elliptical or brisk walk) and stretching just to help flush the lactic acid…

Anything that increases your intra-abdominal pressure is going to carry the possibility of re-herniation. As yoga requires a lot of core stabilization it may not be the best thing to start out with. I would recommend doing as much low-impact cardio work as you can and try to get your weight down first. . Your long term…

Your body is probably holding onto more water. You used to only drink diet soda which if it has caffeine will act as a diuretic and make you pee out lots of your body water. Now not only have you stopped the diet soda, you've upped your water intake and your exercising which is going to make you retain more water as your…

Optimum nutrition gold standard natural 100% whey - chocolate. Tastes great to me and it's sweetened with stevia instead of sucralose. Fewer artificial sweetners in my diet is always a plus. It mixes fine with water or almond milk in a shaker, never had any clumping/big globs to choke down. It's not gonna taste as sweet at…

6'3" 225lbs and shoot for 3900-4000 aka I'm pretty much eating constantly all day

You were getting 6 diet cokes worth of caffeine (a diuretic) and no water and now you are getting minimal caffeine and lots of water. You were pissing out all your body water before and were probably chronically dehydrated and now your body is finally getting a healthy amount of water into it. Also how much sodium are you…