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Leg of Lamb is a hot and fast meat. If you have a grill with a rotisserie debone, season with lots of garlic and other spices, tie it up, hit the outside with heavy salt & pepper and spit roast it.

SL 5x5 3x a week although us older people don't recover all that fast so I've been known to do 2x a week when the joints are really creaky,

Nope :(

I was starting to wonder if anyone was still around.

My favorite quote from MFP - Weight loss makes you look better with your clothes on - weight lifting makes you look better with your clothes off!

Sounds like a Smith machine. The bar rides up and down on two rails? Squats aren't done in a linear motion, the bar moves more in a tall oval. The Smith machine puts a lot of stress on your lower back at higher weights. Opt for the squat rack / cage.

I'm glad they replaced yours. The same thing happened to mine last week except it was about a week over a year old. Their response was basically "tough".

Learning this form will go a long way to pushing your weight up.

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I like the Cytosport that Costco carries. Flavor is decent and it's pretty smooth in the Vitamix.

Justin and Tony Lama are good constructed boots on the inexpensive side. A step up would be brands like Lucchese. The leather is more important than the brand. For dancing stick with cow hide or for a more flexible leather that's even tougher go with kangaroo. Avoid soft leathers like calf skin & goat as the first time you…

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"Thanks mom, but the last time I had your blueberry pie I was stuck on the toilet for 4 hours so I'll pass"

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Ferris Buller's Day off. - The original "self entitled twerp has fun at everyone else's expense and abuses all his friend's trust" movie. Anything with Ben Stiller or Will Ferrel in it. The Harry Potter series - The first one was OK, the rest were crap.

I can hire a personal trainer / strength coach twice a month for what he wants for the "Inner Circle". With respect - I don't think so. Besides, isn't that what this group is for?

I've failed OHP 3 or 4 times. Twice I just repeated the weight and moved up the next session. One time I knew I was tired and upped my weight anyway and made the next level no problem. What weight are you stalling at?

My Bodymedia band indicates around 330 calories for Squat/Bench/Row and 350 for Squat/OHP/Deadlift (week 10). YMMV

Wait? There are women creepers on MFP? Why wasn't I told???????

Sounds like you're arching your back to push the bar up. I started doing that and had to deload 15 lbs to maintain form. Once I did that my back quit hurting.

I'm in week 10 and haven't felt the need for one yet. Just watch your form and don't go up even if you hit all 5 sets if you feel your form is slipping.

It's amazing how motivating it is when you slide the big boy plates on the bar for the first time. I really struggled with the OHP between 80 & 95 lbs but I'm going to take pics or a video when I get to 135 and am OHPing the big plates.

I think I'd go with 2x4 box or 1x3 channel instead of 2x2 box.

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I had to be on the road for 6 days this past week and it really showed in my workout today. I had to drop 20 lbs off my squats and 30 lbs off dead lifts.

I think it's a good app for deadlifts and maybe squats, it seems a little complex for Bench and rows and if I do all the warm ups for OHP I've got nothing left in the tank for the work weight. It's clearly geared for 3x5 vs 5x5. I'll get there someday

I'm seeing a pattern here - Barbell back squats

I've had both in a bar / restaurant setting and at home. In general the Vitamix units outlasted the Blendtec units in our commercial environment but I doubt anyone at home is going to go the the service use level we did. I currently have both a Vitaprep and a Vitaprep 3 (3 horsepower) and there is virtually no difference…

I had to take a week off due to being sick. Other than being a little sorer the first day everything was fine.

Swallow really hard, bite the bullet and go get a Vitamix. You won't regret it.