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Hey there, about a month late but I noticed you mentioned the Vive and I've had one of those for the last few months and have been using it almost daily an gaming/exercise tool. It's been working out really well. How has the PSVR worked out for you in that regard?

Want to try out and get into high school varsity sports, lol. I never stood a chance of getting in as a teenager, looks like it could be possible this time. Would like to be in shape as a motivator for my kids and someone who pushes them physically as they grow up. It want to ensure that no matter how much my kid's will…

Yeah, it's sad but true - these powders are the most economical means of getting protein into the gut. I don't allow my kids access to it, but I'll have protein shakes here and there simply b/c it's a convenient, quick and cheap way to get the reqs for protein in. I prefer cottage cheese and chicken breast as my main…

You're right, as put very nice by Azdak/SHBoss muscle grows very slowly, so these weight fluctuations are almost entirely based on water retention/loss. My weight loss and weight gains have never followed a linear path and as a result my timescale has been usually 2-3 weeks to detect fat losses, and 1-2 months to detect…

Yeah, please ignore all the people who are constantly saying, "No, muscle doesn't weigh more than fat, a pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat!" These people are irritatingly using the whole "which weighs more a lb of feathers or a lb of bricks" riddle to point out the obvious, and what they do in return is…

Alright. I'll give this a try. Which day and wave are you doing?

Slimmed down: - wired headphones - wireless headphones - iphone - gym card - hrm strap - water bottle - lifting gloves - shorts I'll workout in my undershirt and drive home after the workout, eat and shower there.

I know that being conscious of what you're eating can keep the pounds off - just the act of logging my food (even without any calorie goal for the day) makes me more guarded and hesitant to over indulge, so I'm not sure if this imagery is similar. I don't know, I've never gone through the act of imagining myself eating…

Nice! Thanks for the update! I forgot to mention that I have gained a little weight. My weight this morning is 159.8 lbs.

Wow, makes a lot of sense now. I tend to always go to failure, then be sore for another two days and I got good progress for 6 weeks or so but then seemed to develop slight tendinitis in the arms, a persisting sinusitis and less energy than I used to have. These days I still go to the gym but follow that hyper/power…

In that case, when is it ever good to lift to failure? I ask b/c up until now the lift to failure has always been the mantra (though I agree it delays recovery quite a bit)

There's not much that's healthy at starbucks. With that said, if you're studying all day you're probably not going eat very much anyways, so even if you ate some of the fattening stuff there, you'll probably still be under cals for the day in total. What I'd do is give myself a free day b/c the focus is on studying but I'd…

+1. I keep my thumbs wrapped too. You want to minimize risk of injury above everything else. Sometimes I find myself having a better grip without my gloves when doing the bb bench, but I always keep the thumb wrapped. As for not finishing the last rep, that's totally cool that means you really worked to failure, maybe you…

San Deigo's awesome! And this is definitely the time to get out of IL. It's been frigid this week.

Funny you say that b/c I've been thinking I should get back to cutting also. With that said, I'm not gonna be changing my routine much, actually gonna try to maintain my weight and just try to improve my strength. I've got a feeling I may be able to build some muscle mass while at maintenance anyways. Maybe one of us could…

Lost the wallet, so I trained in house today. Alternating between pull-ups and pushups. Did: 4 x 30 pushups 5 x 9 pullups Took a good 2-3 minutes between each set though, seemed to help a lot. Then I found my wallet, :happy: Will hit the gym on friday and see if there's any improvement. I'm hoping I can bring my squat up,…

Thanks for the suggestion MuscleBuilder - I'll cut back on the cardio. Idk if it's from the training or if I'm getting sick, or if it's just the frigid cold we're having (19 F) but I've been out of it for these last couple days. My back is recovered, my left bicep seems just about back to normal, but my energy levels have…

Start immediately. I lost about 25 lbs earlier this year, was lifting initially then halfway stopped lifting and just did cardio and diet. I lost another 10 lbs but it was allot of muscle loss. I was at my goal weight, but nowhere near the right body composition, my body fat basically held on for much of the last 10 lbs…

I run for about 10-15 min and get my heart rate constant at around 85% max, but I wouldn't say I'm at top intensity the whole time... the first 3 minutes is a warmup and I then I start running for a minute, then sprinting for about 3 minutes, then back to running, then sprinting, until the the treadmill stops. I do this…

Thanks for the advice! That's a really good point to differentiate between new lifters or people who've been at it for years. I'm never quite sure where I fit in on this one, I've been lifting off and on for about 12 years now. I'll get into a lifting habit 3 days/week for 4-6 months and then something will happen and 4…

I don't know if this is "cheating" or not, but what I would do when trying to cut cals is carry one of those 24 oz water bottles with me everywhere, and take lettuce, celery, carrots, cucumbers, spinach, rice cakes, etc with me and be always eating. You can eat a ton of that stuff and the calorie count is still low. I made…

Hey YIL, which formula is our "standard" by which we should calc 1 RM? Also, on the weight gain thing, I asked sometime back about what's a good rate of weight gain to ensure you're getting muscle and not fat (e.g. gaining 5 lbs in one week is probably more fat than muscle). I think the consensus reply was something like…

I'm not, but I go there often. Considering I'm happy with my weight at this point and looking only to change my body composition I should probably become a member.

Ok. So I went light this week so as to note aggravate my arm any longer. Trying to figure out what the ailment is exactly. It's some overuse injury and it almost seems to be both the bicep and the forearm, there seems to be swelling near the elbow... Oh, I read on the internet that lat pulls are not as good as pull-ups...…

Yeah, that guy, Stuart and that video was the reason I got interested in max OT also. It's funny how much that video succeeds at selling that lifting program - he got really amazing results in what appeared to me like a short period of time. It wasn't so much the fat loses that impressed me but moreso the muscle he was…

Yeah, I think I'm gonna take a break from my Max OT mutated routine. I'll give this power/hypertrophy routine a shot. I did a little lifting last night and after about 5 sets my left bicep started acting up again so I stopped there... don't want to aggravate it till it keeps me off the weights for a month or something. In…

No matter how few calories you eat, you won't lose the weight if you can't be consistent over the long haul. So please if it's that difficult, it's better for you to slow down and eat more. You didn't put on the weight by eating a few hundred calories over 1200, you put it on most probably by eating a few thousand calories…

Ahh yes to be 21 again... lol. I remember I took up weight training religiously for about 10 months back in 2000 and I put on a good 10 lbs of muscle. That's a great time to get into it, you get good gains at that age - just remember to EAT and LIFT and you'll get there. Unfortunately I had gotten away from the weights for…

MFP is a really helpful site, but we all need to remember our bodies do not actually have a calorie timer on them that resets at midnight every night. It's not as if when you're over on a particularly day it switches into storage mode, and when you're under by a significant amount it switches into starvation mode... these…

We've got a weight-gainers forum topic where we try to keep track of our progress together as a team for the next 5 weeks. If you want to join: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/137809-weight-gainers-week-1