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If you are willing to devote 60-90 minutes a day to your workout the original will serve you better in the long run.

5 second rule, madam.

The MFP system was designed mainly for weight loss. For gain you want to use a TDEE system. Put together a workout regimen that is consistent from week to week, where the amount of cardio you do (which should be minimal) and the amount of lifting you do does not vary from one week to the next. Use one of the many TDEE…

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I've tried it but I only have resistance bands and I find that the resistance band modified moves are too awkward to really be effective. If I had dumbbells I'd take you up, though, sure.

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I do strength training 3 days a week in a circuit format. Beyond that I will intermittently jump rope for 10-15 minute sessions if and when I feel like it, not following any set schedule.

You can't spot reduce. No matter where you focus on fat will come off of wherever it wants to. Furthermore you should be working your whole body regardless of where your trouble spots are.

The ones I mentioned such as New Rules of Lifting for Women, Stronglifts, and Starting Strength are what's ideal for you.

If it keeps you on track, yes it is. Just bear in mind it's not a necessary tool for anyone and at the end of the day it's more or less just a tool to give you added motivation. The functional aspect you can do without it.

Kettlebell work is typically done using higher rep sets. Assuming you're following a more traditional format in your training (such as timed sets) you won't be working within the lower rep ranges needed to bulk up.

The pull up is the holy grail of strength exercises for people who went from overweight/out of shape to fit. The first time you did one with good clean form and no cheating was that moment you realized you truly were fit and crossed that line. It's a great feeling.

Why the issue with full body workouts? The issue is if you work in splits you won't be focusing as much on compounds as much as a beginner should. And yes, you are a beginner if you haven't been consistent about it.

Your best bet as a beginner is to stick to a routine such as Stronglifts or Starting Strength or New Rules of Lifting for Women. Worry about switching to a split routine after you start to plateau out from a program like that. Skipping straight to a split routine as a beginner will yield sub-optimal results.

I have friends who live over in the midwest who ride. I would like to take a trip over to see them and do a track day or two with them.

Remember the dead lift is a compound movement. It takes a lot of weight to make it effective if your form is good. If you are using hand weights you aren't doing anything.

More than likely what's happening is that the chest strap isn't getting a good contact with your body. They say sweat is enough but I use electrode gel just to be sure.

Cooked, because of the water added, equates to roughly double the amount as uncooked. So 1/2 uncooked because 1 cooked. Regarding restaurant food there is NO WAY to get an idea of how much is in one restaurant's vs. another. Your only solution is to make sure you eat it so infrequently that it's not going to matter.

Estimating the calorie content of what you're getting when you go out to eat is difficult if not impossible. Even if nutrition information is available what you're actually getting could be way off. If you're not comfortable with this, eat at home more and eat out less. If you limit your restaurant sessions to once every…

Generally speaking people have to go through bulk cycles multiple times. The reason is because only a small portion of the weight gained during a bulk is actual muscle (as in approximately 30% at most). The rest is a combination of fat and bloat which you then have to lose after you've completed your bulk. If you're not…

The strength training section of the exercise log is not for calculating calorie burns. It is solely for tracking your progress with weighted strength exercises. For calorie burns you must calculate it under the cardio section. All bodyweight exercises fall under the "calisthenics" entry, but depending on the muscles…

Manowar. Disturbed. FFDP. For working out? Yup.

If you have access to weight then the entire challenge becomes sub-optimal. it's more or less a beginner-friendly band-aid for people who want to follow some semblance of a progression based program but do not have access to weights.

If you're adding weight then you're actually doing it better than the way the original plan describes. Good on you. Increasing load rather than reps is the way to go.

If you're not pushing yourself to increase the weight incrementally every workout, or at least every few workouts, you're just chasing your tail.

The barbell, the dumbbells, the bench, the squat rack, the pullup bar and the dip station. Generally speaking anything else is a waste of time. Working with free weights and bodyweight exercises will produce far better results (and assuming your form is good, leave you a lot less likely to injure yourself) than machines.

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I've learned a long time ago that it's best to take a day off when there's something wrong that prevents you from working out at 100% capacity. I've come to associate that mentality with a degree of psychological obsession and at that point it's no longer healthy, but in fact, a form of self-harm.

I personally saw my best results when I was paying attention more to WHAT I was eating than to how much of it. I don't like to chime in on those IIFYM vs. Clean Eating debates, but in terms of overall fitness and body composition, I was MUCH better off when I was merely eyeballing/guesstimating the quantities but following…

Agreed. In most cases it's either a) they're not being as strict in their calorie goal/ceiling as they think they are, or b) water retention.