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High protein, moderate fat, moderate to low carb, more carbs from fiber

As long as you're eating enough protein and enough fats it doesn't really matter.

I used to be so good about eating vegetables but now I eat them maybe once a month or less. I ate seaweed the other day, but I take a multivitamin and have no problem getting my fiber from other sources like coconut flour and high fiber bread.

Sugar is just a carb. As long as you're eating enough fats and protein, your carbs/sugar aren't particularly important unless you have a medical issue that requires carbs/sugar to be monitored. However, it should be noted that fructose and sucrose can only be stored as liver glycogen and not muscle glycogen. The liver can…

Cheat day/meal vs. Refeed Cheat day/meal: Eating whatever you want (usually within reason, but not necessarily) for a meal or day. Used as a "mental break" from dieting. Refeed: Structured over eating, very high carb (but low fructose, mainly complex carbs are eaten), high to moderate protein, low fat (<50g). Used to spike…

Zyzz: Son of Zeus, brother of Hercules, father of aesthetics.

I feel you. When I look in the mirror or look at pictures I always feel like I'm way too small. Then I figured out what it was. I took a picture of myself and cropped my head out of it. Then I saw that I really do have a good amount of muscle, I'm just way too critical of myself sometimes. When I look in the mirror I see a…

Yep! At one point I had mapped out a 4 mile loop around my neighborhood that had a shopping center with a Dairy Queen and McDonald's just so I could run there and back while stopping to get ice cream. The running burned off the ice cream so it's like it never happened lol.

I do this but with almond milk because blah blah blah soy blah blah blah estrogen

Misread this as funnel, like funnel cake. :frown: No funnel cake recipes for me then...

Lifting light weights/high rep = cardio and/or waste of time Lifting heavy weights/low rep = increase strength **Lifting medium weight/medium rep = increased muscle size** "Lifting heavy" isn't what you do to get bigger. That's how you get stronger which down the line can help you get bigger. If you want your muscle to…

Bruv, if you want to get big you're going to have to give up your precious abs for the greater gains. You'll get them back very soon, but focus on mass at this point.

If you're trying to gain weight but you have a small appetite you need to cut out low calorie stuff or find a way to add calories to low calorie stuff. Like if you want to eat broccoli, smother it with cheese. If you want to eat salad, drown it in ranch and put tons of cheese, nuts, dried fruit, etc. on it. For high…

With squats just set it a little higher and start at the bottom. Use a platform for dead lifts.

Nice haha I had my little brother do it for a while and he had some nice gains. We squished it into two sessions a week, bench/squat day and dead lift/press day. He would be there for like maybe half an hour. It's great for people that are busy or just don't want to spend a lot of time in the gym.

Squats and dead lifts

Battle ropes

5/3/1 I'm not doing jacksh!t template One lift, four times a week, three sets. You can be in and out of the gym in less than 20 minutes. One day squat, one day bench, one day dead lift, one day press. You'll see results with minimal time spent lifting.

I NEVER lift with shoes on. For upper body stuff it doesn't matter but squats and dead lifts are done barefoot. That's how you're supposed to do it. Idk if you can see it, but even in my profile pic I'm squatting 205 with no shoes on. I still wear socks, but wearing shoes throws off my balance, plus, you don't want your…

You have a few options. 1. Pick a cookie cutter program like Starting Strength, Greyskull, 5/3/1, etc. These are good because they're already set up, all you have to do is follow the program and possibly do a little math to calculate percentages. 2. Hire a personal trainer This is good because you have someone tailoring a…

I have teeny tiny little 13" calves. Drop the running and just lift. I've just recently started running and I've finally seen my calves develop now. Calves typically need high volume/frequency to grow so running is one of the few ways you can actually gain some muscle from cardio. Doing 5x15x305lbs calf raises have made…

...Why does it have to be in powder form? Egg whites are already 100% protein. I buy cartons of 2lbs of egg whites for <$5 from the grocery store. My favorite ways to make egg whites are either as an egg white omelette with spinach and onion, or my absolute favorite, coconut cake with coconut flour, almond milk, and…

Lel don't care. If I can eat a whole can of tobacco in one sitting and a pinecone I can take some GMO.

I normally just use a pre workout like Jack3D (I still have a small stash of the old formula :P ) but I drink monster sometimes, too. I haven't found any reason to avoid them. I drank two monsters and a scoop of jack3d yesterday before my workout. If you want to stop drinking them just replace it with coffee. It's…

I probably don't eat as much as I should. Some days I only end up at like 50g. On an average day I can get 70-80g. I feel like my results might be better if I ate more protein but I find myself eating way too many carbs. However, my lifts do much better when I eat high carb. From my experience, this is how it works for me:…

watermelon is ~50 calories a cup. Low, but not "literally nothing."

You can get them at whole foods, giant, and wegmans. Probably other places, too, I just know of those. It's like a puffier mix between a rice cake and a chip.

Heavy is relative to the person and to the lift. I can barely bench triple digits but my dad can warm up with one plate. A one plate squat is a warm up for me but basically 1RM for my dad. Most people do some variation of 5x5 in which case you should be aiming for roughly 80% of your 1RM. That could be just the bar or it…

I take a blueberry cinnamon pop cake (see below) and put 1/2tbsp of fat free cool whip on each one and sprikle with cinnamon and splenda on it (mix cinnamon and splenda together first, trust me). I usually eat four of them so it ends up being 79 calories total.

Tired, weak, headaches, and pain in upper abdominal area.