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Does anyone think you need to gain fat to heal a burn or a cut? Can your body heal while losing fat? Can you only recover from an injury and lose weight if you are a noob to healing? Have any of you taken a a biology class or do you feel a cert that can be gotten in 6 weeks is better then a PHD? All this answered and more…

I have done some research in to this and from what I have come to understand it has nothing to do with your skin but the stuff under it. The hypodermis is beneath dermis which is beneath epidermis. It is used mainly for fat storage. It is often referred to as subcutaneous tissue though this is a less precise and…

I think the problem comes from most peoples very unrealistic goals from just how much strength and muscle some food is going to give you. If you have been training and eating right for about 2 years the best you are going to get after that is about 4# a year. For a man that's about 5 10"-6 ft. they will max out at about…

Hell yeah! One thing I learned is nobody likes people who feel sorry for themselves (even if they have good reason).

Like you I was about 300#. I have never bulked once, I have only cut and recomped. So pics or it didn't happen right. That is about 1 year worth of recomping, the pics are a little old now so I have a bit more muscle now, but not much. The magic formula is to know your body fat %, if you get under 12% eat more if you get…

Oh no not this one again! Well all I can say is what happened to me once. I had a female friend that wanted to get in to shape so I said I would show her what to do at the gym. I was showing her how deadlift and squat and her being a gym noob, didnt know I was looking at her with the mirrors. Its hard to catch women but…

I had the same problem too. Well still have it, it was worse before. Sometimes you just are hungry, and there is nothing else to it. Other times you just don't want to feel left out. It can be hard to tell.

I found the best way to build muscle, (this will be a big shocker to most people) enjoy your work outs. If you hate bench press you will never push yourself on it and will get no progressive overload. On the other hand if you love dips and want to push yourself on them, and feel good pushing yourself very hard on them you…

After looking on Wikipedia, it seems like it was understood that insulin and IGF caused hyperplasia before the pathway was found. (Not to be confused by the hypertrophy caused by steroids).

Oh I know I could regain all the weight, and fast too. Its good that you are taking the first steps but if you didn't feel shame you wouldn't be sneaking food. You have to toughen yourself up, because people suck and wont always be there for you. I was lucky I had real life friends helping me out but I also had more trying…

Step 1: Find low cal food you enjoy eating Step 2: Find exercise you enjoy doing Step 3: ????????? Step 4: Profit Oh we all get that feeling at some point. That we are alone and no one understands or at least I know I did, but feeling sorry for yourself isn't the answer. If I did know the answer I would be a very rich man,…

When people start calling you M.C. Hammer

Being a type 1 diabetic you have to inject all your insulin. You sure could get a large spike like that...thinking about it, anyone could inject insulin. Why would anyone worry about what carbs spike what, when you could just take the stuff. Oh hold on a lot of pro bodybuilders and powerlifters do! So I am going to put…

Dont worry all men are monsters and you shouldn't lose weight for us.:laugh: On a serious note, if it is a lifestyle change you need to make it for the right reasons, if you want it to stick. If you just need to drop a few # your reasons are your own and do whatever it takes to drop them.

Regulation of myogenic differentiation is controlled by two pathways: the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Akt pathway and the Notch/Hes pathway, which work in a collaborative manner to suppress MyoD transcription. The O subfamily of the forkhead proteins (FOXO) play a critical role in regulation of myogenic differentiation…

OMG NO. This is not an anatomy lesson, this is cell biology. Knowing the components of cells and how cells work is fundamental to all biological sciences. "Training and nutrition" will increase the overall amount of cells within the muscle. That in turn will increase the strength and size of the muscle. What it wont change…

All skeletal muscle looks like this, no way to change it with training.

Every where, because it is now known that is not how myogenesis works. You can control your muscle tissue ratio's just as much as you can control where you reduce fat. There is only one type of hypertrophy. Bodybuilders and power lifters have the exact same muscle.

Not true. The sarcoplasm is the cytoplasm of a muscle fiber. Most of the sarcoplasm is filled with myofibrils, which are long protein cords composed of myofilaments. The sarcoplasm is also composed of glycogen, which provides energy to the cell with heightened exercise, and myoglobin, the red pigment that stores oxygen…

What you understand is wrong. The hypodermis is beneath dermis which is beneath epidermis. It is used mainly for fat storage. It is often referred to as subcutaneous tissue though this is a less precise and anatomically inaccurate term. The hypodermis is not part of the skin, and lies below the dermis. Its purpose is to…

The reason why this doesn't work so well is, what happens if you get hurt or sick and cant run? That is why better eating habits win out over exercising in the name or poor ones. I am not saying what you are doing is bad or doesn't work but it does have that flaw.

I said I didnt mean it. I squat all the time but its not the end all and be all and can be replaced easy enough and get the same or better results.

You will deadlift more then you can squat and that will use more muscles too. Walking lunges use more muscle and they can be used in real life too. The fact is you dont need to squat, and by selling this myth people are doing more harm then good. I cant tell you how many people get turned off by the whole squat or go home…

this is right the article don't even bother with it.

Back squats are the worst thing you can ever do! Ok that should wake most people up. No I dont mean that, but in real life at no point will you ever need to perfectly balance a bar on your back and squat it down then back up. Picking up a dead weight off the floor that is in front of you people do all the time. There is…

As a fellow cosplayer losing weight has let me to play almost anything I want. It feels so great not having weight hold you back and just having fun like normal people should. Getting to go up and show off your hard work sure is great. I like going as people from fighting games. My baraka from mortal kombat.

Hell I have been rejected because I have been to fit. Some women have to be better looking then the guy they are going with. Anyway guys get rejected all the time, for just about everything. So this should be a double wake up call for you. Getting turned down is something you should get used to as it will help you find…

Most guys at 5'10" are never going to get past 180 at 11% bf no matter how many bulks cuts we do. Some guys are super lucky and they have a good frame and a lot of other factors and they can get up to 190. Once you get past that bulking/cutting is silly you are not going to put on any more muscle. So I think most people…

I think its better to try to help as much as I can and give them the real deal when they ask me. People only ask if they want to lose or they have some one in their life that needs to lose a large amount of weight. Every so often, I do run in to people that wont care what I say, and will only want to hear what they already…

I am not sure you get how this program works, or any program for that matter. Rep ranges are not what causes strength or size gains. What does this is progressive overload, and its the same for powerlifting as it is for bodybuilding. In order to minimize injury and maximize results, the novice begins at a comfortable level…