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:facepalm: partial squats are WAY worse for your knees than a full, below-parallel squat.

You don't need to lower it slowly, but the negative portion of the lift is also excellent training. Have you tried using a belt? Having a belt to push your belly against can help stabilize your core and teach you how to cue your abs and lower back properly.

get/wear a HRM

Convict Conditioning is another good resource for bw stuff.

At what point do squats hurt your knees? If done properly, they are excellent rehab for knee issues, but flexibility issues might be holding you up.

Echo the comment that there's really not enough info here to answer your actual question. Do you fail to break it off the ground? Get hung up at the knees? Lose it just before lockout? Each of these provokes a different diagnosis. What type of grip are you using? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syt7A23YnpA ^^Rippetoe giving…

If you are into pure strength/muscle gain to improve aesthetics (that's the vibe I'm getting from your post), then xfit *might* work well for you, but honestly it's an elite fitness program, not a strength improvement program. Personally, I'd think that unless you are prepared to eat like there's no tomorrow you'll have a…

I have been wanting to get Lyle's RFL manual but man oh man are his ebooks pricey. Hard to justify.

There's a big difference between taking a look at what someone is doing and leering in a predatory fashion.

These types of threads are great for finding new and uninteresting people to ignore.

Actually going below parallel until you feel the "bounce" in the hole is what transfers the load OUT of the knee joint and into a hip-dominant exercise. If you are stopping above parallel, you are using your knees to reverse the downward motion of the bar before your glutes, hammies, and adductors are really involved fully…

http://www.epicureanbb.com/tagged/Desserts ^^ She makes some incredible food.

People who are completely new to weight training AND very overweight can, with a properly managed macro balance, build muscle in a deficit.

Without seeing your setup it's tough to know with any kind of certainty, but I find that most people have way too narrow of a stance and don't turn out their feet nearly enough. You have to have enough room between your legs for your pelvis to rotate and your belly and thighs not smack into each other. The best advice I…

Not enough to be worth worrying about.

IMO it really depends on what your goals are. Do you aspire to powerlift? Do you want to get hella strong, or just strike a balance between strength and aesthetics? Generally speaking, cutting is only necessary for aesthetic reasons. Why not split the difference and take your surplus percentage down to 10%. See if your…

Technically untrue. The glucose required by those organs can be generated by ketone bodies in the absence of carbs, else ketogenic dietary lifestyles would be completely untenable. I don't personally do keto, but many of my training partners do, and have done so for many months with no ill effects. It can be particularly…

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Gotta love the people recommending the "really filling, low-calorie snack" options to do EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THE OP WANTS. Oils, butter, avocado, nuts are all great nutrient-dense foods. If you are using MFP default macros you are probably being desperately misled as to what a good ratio would be.

'Murrica Bashing burns tons of calories dontcha know.

^^ And, in fact, will virtually ALWAYS result in a reduction in visible hypertrophy when you're training specifically for strength.

Oh well that seals it. All doubt has been henceforth erased.

Ketone bodies are created by breaking down FFA's in the liver. Specifically in the absence of adequate carbohydrates to provide energy for the brain.

MFP's default macros are terrible. If you are eating anywhere in the vicinity of 1.5g protein per lb/bodyweight or less you are fine. It's the most satiating and (arguably) most useful macronutrient, so kill it with protein.

Glucose as it is processed internally and metabolized can hardly be considered any one of the 3 macronutrients. Your body can survive on protein, FFA and ketones if it must for a very long time.

Most people that eat low carb count "net carbs" which means that vegetable carbs are almost completely negligible. And other macros are already adjusted to be abnormally high in these instances because carbs are Planned low.

It depends on what type of cardio you are talking about. Fasted training is designed to complement low intensity steady state cardio like moderately paced walking, and usually strength training. How long of a fast is also significant, as is whether you are in ketosis and whether you have done it very much in the past.

"toning" is a myth. Strength is built by increasing the weight you move progressively. In order to get stronger, you must do something that is difficult for you to do. So, as you progress with any beginner strength program, you progressively add weight each session, and your body reacts to the stimulus very noticeably at…

TBH I would save up until you can get an Olympic style barbell set. Here they are usually 300lb sets, so that's something like a 135kg set. At minimum you really want an olympic bar (20.4 kg standard, I believe) and a pair of plates that same weight, because deadlifts. To some extent, learning proper form is going to…

Sorry but this isn't really accurate. You don't really want to train the same muscle group heavy two days in a row (with some exceptions, as always), but there's no reason you can't do full body every time you lift, and just lift 3 days a week. I do Squat/Bench/Deadlift 3 times a week and have fairly consistently for…