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If you don't have a rack then you have a perfect excuse to learn the Olympic Lifts. Watch some tutorials on Youtube and really focus on your form

You will gain some size and strength initially because you are a newb but you'll hit a wall at some point because of the caloric deficit. If you want to do cardio, I would recommend doing it before or after you lift so that you can actually rest on your rest days. It's would be beneficial to your strength gains to not do…

Only use free weights. You don't just need to get stronger, you need to learn to coordinate your movements properly. This needs to happen intermuscularly and intramuscularly so no machines. You should squat with a wide stance onto a box with your knees forced to the sides as hard as possible. Try to sit back really far…

Only use free weights. You don't just need to get stronger, you need to learn to coordinate your movements properly. This needs to happen intermuscularly and intramuscularly so no machines. You should squat with a wide stance onto a box with your knees forced to the sides as hard as possible. Try to sit back really far…

It's a good idea to specialize in taking overweight women as clients because A) that must be your niche since you're a woman who has lost a good deal of weight and B) Overweight women are what you're going to get as clients regardless of how you market yourself. The only thing that sucks about taking only overweight women…

Expecting to make $49,000.00 as a personal trainer is ridiculous. That might happen if you have a bachelor's degree and CSCS credentials + 10 years or more of experience and have been working in one high end gym for a long time and developed a large client base and reputation. However, coming out with no experience you'd…

The most reputable certification would be the NSCA. Then some people would say ACSM although I would have to disagree and ACE would fall far below at third. Just keep in mind that most personal trainers have no idea what they are talking about because proper exercise technique, programming and periodization is not included…

It's not BS. I don't curl or do tricep work. I squat and deadlift like an mf'er. My arms are bigger than your's. Case closed.

I have 21" arms without a pump. I don't know what they would be with a pump because I don't do direct arm work. If I got really lean they might get down to 20" without a pump. If you want to get big arms (or a big anything for that matter) you need to: 1) Gain weight 2) Get really strong It really is that simple. My…

So if the glutes and hamstrings aren't "firing" properly, then the muscle group primarily doing the moving would be the quadriceps. So how does Valgus collapse not have anything to do with your quads? We see this issue a lot in powerlifting with newbs who don't know how to sit back into their squat yet so they use…

Whether or not you like it, most fat people got to where they are by making excuses. It is also for that reason that most of them will remain overweight. So fostering the idea that they can log some sort of activity everyday without having to go to the gym is dangerous because many of them will do just that. You must…

She's just so manly

Getting as fired up as I can. Snorting ammonia, heavy metal and smashing siht.

You fot ripped the F*&^ off. Welcome to 24 hour fitness :)

^This. I also use a baseball

Cleaning your house is just living life, not exercising. The trend I have noticed is that people who are fat try to count everything as exercise to make an excuse for why they didn't get on a treadmill or lift weights. I deal with diabetic patients who try to play this card on me all the time and they're still going to die…

Box squats. Sit back until your knees are actually slightly behind your ankles. This will overload your glutes and take the stress off of your knees simultaneously.

I would run stronglifts 5x5 or starting strength and follow the same progression but only lift twice a week. Then I would run three days a week with varying intensity. For example: Monday: Short run but pushed for speed Tuesday: Stronglifts Wednesday: Easy run Thursday: Stronglifts Friday: Off Saturday: Big *kitten* run…

There's no right or wrong answer to your question. It's a matter of opinion. Also, if you're tripping because you weigh 106lbs instead of 104lbs then maybe you have bigger things to worry about than your meal timing.

Regardless of your diagnosis or medical treatments it will ultimately be up to you how well your back recovers and how much your exercise is limited. Nothing beats a patient who is constantly trying to get better and better at managing their condition. I personally have some SI issues but am still able to train hard and…

That's true. I always do band pull aparts and external rotations as part of my warm up on pressing days. Some times I'll do bent over dumbbell raises and reverse shrugs too

Here's a link to the "So you think you can bench" series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHx1gYTA-Rw Here's a link to the "So you think you can squat" series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ME8gEN54Ao I also thought I'd throw in a few other example training sessions to get him started: Example 1: Standing Barbell Overhead…

I would need to see a video of him benching but I am going to go out on a limb here and say that he is benching the way that most guys do with his back flat and his elbows flared out really wide. I am also going to assume that he is bench pressing frequently and rowing, deadlifting and squatting infrequently. I make these…

That depends on how strong you are. Judging from the question you asked I am assuming that you aren't very strong, so you could probably increase the weights every lifting session for several months before you stall. If you're serious about getting stronger, check out stronglifts 5x5 or starting strength, they both have…

This^. After you have lost some weight and are very proficient at bodyweight exercises you can start adding weights to exercises that do not directly load the spine (weighted push ups, dumbbell rows, chest supported rows, chin ups, dips). After you have developed a significant amount of strength with those lifts then you…

She has a pronounced brow ridge and mandibles which are both beginning signs of agromegally (caused by too much growth hormone) also, there are anabolic steroids that do not have androgenic tendencies and thus do not cause virilization in women (the most popular being boldenone and nandrolone)

Becca Swanson i stronger than me and I'm a 310lb competitive powerlifter..... Do you seriously think she got that way without the aid of exogenous androgenic hormones? It's a lot easier for women to bulk when they have superphysiological levels of testosterone.

Buy a 100lb bag of cement.

Overtraining isn't something that most of the people on this website are in danger of. It takes a lot more than you would think to reach a state of overtraining.

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