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Ngl some of that knee locking looks downright dangerous. At that point you're transferring the weight from your muscles directly onto your joint resulting in negligible muscle work and unnecessary joint stress. You can pull the hips in while maintaining mild bend to the knee.
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I've always gone shoeless for a large portion of leg day. Granted I don't have a pair of chucks but it's a better option than runners. Could probably benefit from some chucks for deads but don't fix what's not broken I guess.
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I think if you bothered to do the math, you would probably find it is not much of a scam. If I were to get every gram of protein I eat per day from a protein shake it would cost $5.67 CAD / $4.52 USD (6kg for $126 shipped). The same amount of protein would take 1.63kg of egg whites, 670g of chicken (~3.8 chicken breasts at…
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I find it very odd you think getting your 1g/lb protein is so hard through whole foods and then you link an article praising whey protein for being a whole protein, being the most bioavailable protein and being extremely accessible.
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Yes he says he lost little strength and knows he lost muscle mass. Anything else? If you're content with not maximizing your gains go for it. Would you be more content with protein shakes if you just made some cheese yourself, dried out the liquid, and ate the powder? Super processed I know. You can easily find, as…
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The guy in the article YOU linked literally did that and his fitness got worse. It takes 2 seconds to Google protein bio availability and literally every study will show you whey protein is number 1. In fact other protein bio availability is often stated as a decimal of whey (with whey being 1.00). As far as I know the…
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@Jthanmyfitnesspal I don't suggest taking potassium supplements. I suggest putting potassium salt in your food and eating more potassium foods like bananas, broccoli, beans and potatoes. Potassium supplements are dosed such that they're basically negligible because even small amounts of potassium can be unhealthy for…
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Age won't matter - it's all protein. If you're concerned you could check out https://labdoor.com/rankings/protein. They test an assortment of supplements and provide feedback on quality, adherence to label, etc.
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I basically gave up on believing anything you wrote when you said supplement protein is inferior to protein from food sources. Though I did check out the link and the guy literally looks worse in the second picture, says he lost reps on an exercise, and can "definitely tell he lost some muscle". I don't find 1g/lb…
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What's your potassium intake like? The negatives of sodium are GROSSLY overstated. I would argue that many links between sodium and heart issues are correlation as opposed to causation i.e. many high in sodium foods are low in other important micronutrients (like potassium). Issues like high blood pressure which seems to…
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Yeah not gonna lie that example looks like it has a criminally low amount of fat, but I'd be interested in knowing exactly. Extremely low fat intake is unhealthy and assuming you aren't pounding down saturated and trans fats etc there is no real reason to avoid it at all. Too many carbs -> more insulin -> more salt…
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If you're actually eating well below your burn you should be continuously losing weight. This also results in making any real muscle building progress very hard. Regardless, without a decent protein intake you will get nowhere. A protein shake would be a good start in that it will increase your protein and is an extremely…
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You can either eat at a deficit (aka cut, somewhere in the range of 80% of your TDEE) or eat at maintenance (often dubbed recomp). In either case you should keep eating lots of protein (preferably at least 1g per lb of body weight). Eating at a considerable deficit will drop fat quicker but you will also have a harder time…
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Both, but doing before hand can be a great way to loosen up muscles that don't often see a whole lot of action. One great example is lower back before squatting.
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Main purpose of the warm up is to get the blood flowing in that particular area. With this in mind full body warmup (like jumping jacks or cardio) is generally useless. It's not targeted well enough. Is it your first chest workout of the way? Take 50% weight off your bench or dumbbell press and just do 2 or 3 sets of 15-20…
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It is almost definitely related to diet. Assuming they recently started eating more to bulk, they are likely taking in more carbs. More carbs -> more insulin, more insulin results in higher sodium retention -> more water retention. It's likely largely water and glycogen storage. If you continue trying to gain mass it will…
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Add me also. Currently targeting 3450 calories. Up ~18 pounds (142 - 160) since June 7th. I cheat and eat a scoop of Serious Mass every day though.
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Honestly don't care who has their shirt off. They're just nipples.
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You could probably make something that works out of: -a carb powder (waxy maize starch or fine oats) -peanut or almond butter -protein powder -water Throw milk in there if you want. Of course that's basically what you put just with the added carb. I actually think I might do this.
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If the lowest fat content of all of your weight gainer is the milk and protein, then the best ratio you could possibly do is 100% milk and some protein, because the milk has more carbs than your peanut butter and oil. So no, you literally can't make a mass gainer with those things in any ratio to hit normal (~60/20/20)…
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Not to take anything away from your hard work but I just put this together in MFP (1 cup whole milk, 1 scoop protein, 1 tbsp of coconut oil and peanut butter) and ended up with 19g of carbs, 31g of fat, and 42g of protein for 520 calories. Personally, that's WAY too much protein and fat for me in a "mass gainer". The point…
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Labdoor is awesome. I don't buy anything they review without consulting it first. I personally use the Doctor's Best brand. That being said I agree this probably a magnesium issue.
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Do what you gotta do.
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Not sure how you're extrapolating that I think all fat is bad from what I said either. Yeah you can eat everything in moderation. "just eat tons of mcdonaldd and arby's" doesn't seem to be implying moderation which is kind of the point, right. I implied that you should not eat tons of McDonalds and Arby's to do it. Sue me.
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"The idea of dirty bulk is simply to eat as much as possible, adhering to no real nutritional guidelines other than getting a boatload of calories down your gullet." I just mean if you're just eating tons of Arby's and MacDonalds to bulk I'd call that dirty bulking as you obviously have no regard for nutritional content,…
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The people that pound cable weights on every rep and the people who do exercises directly in front of the free weights are probably my biggest pet peeves.
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Mix everything (except oats and grains) into a smoothie if you can handle the disgusting taste and texture. Mask with protein powders, chocolate works best.
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Or just eat more healthy, calorie dense foods with a fraction of the sodium, harmful fats, nitrates, etc intake. Dirty bulking is nasty.
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Because I should totally have no problem setting down a 90 lb dumbbell that I need someone's help to get into proper benchpress position initially. Or I should slowly lower a massive deadlift. This might be true for people who don't lift big weights but sometimes you need to give them a break.
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Interesting. Maybe you're right. I have no intentions of stopping for the next 10 weeks so let's see what happens!
