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Workouts should be missed for family obligations, injury, and illness only, irrespective of whether you're taking creatine monohydrate or not.

MFP for food. Jefit for my weight lifting. Runtastic for my cardio. http://www.startingstrength.com for some of the best workout advice you'll see. #powerlifting on the Freenode IRC network for are, who's helped my squats and deadlifts (thanks dude)

"You can't solve a problem until you know the breadth and depth of the issue." --me, explaining troubleshooting tech students

Seven minutes of cardio. Try to contain your disappointment at how few calories it burns.

I've added butternut squash and mashed sweet potatoes to the waffle blend. It's a great way to use up those leftovers and they taste awesome.

Homegym. There is no excuse for not working out when the barbells are only a light toss of a baseball away. At this point motivation doesn't matter to me - if the program says I'm deadlifting on Tuesday, barring injury or illness, I'll be deadlifting on Tuesday. It takes about a year to build an exercise habit. After that…

I find the community unintentionally hilarious a lot of the time.

These are the specifications for a server rack I received:* Total cabinet area: 23.54 inches x 44.3 inches x 78.97 inches * Weight: 146.66 kg (323 lbs) * It took an hour from pallet to installation, which included moving it twice as one doorway on the house was mis-measured and I had to start over from a different entryway…

Still chasing a 1000lb total.

About half of my workouts I "don't feel like it". I go anyway because I love the results. I like putting more weight on the bar every week and crossing out the previous PR on the board. I enjoy being more functional and able.

I would suggest you look at any of the programs Starting Strength, Stronglifts, or The New Rules of Lifting for Women - all are solid beginner programs to get you stronger, fast.

Started at around 200 lbs and these lifts Squat: 60 Bench: 75 OHP (Many months later): 65 Deadlift: 115 Rows: 40 Current PRs @ 180 lbs: Squat: 270 Bench: 190 OHP: 121.25 Deadlift: 285 Rows: 145 (don't do them often) Mind this is with three hard resets for unrelated-to-weightlifting medical issues.

In a word, no, not if your goal is to get strong in an efficient manner. Look at Starting Strength, Stronglifts, or another linear progression program.

Keep at the weekly calorie goal while hitting the protein goal.

From HR while filling out the I9 form (IRS form for proof of work eligibility): "Holy *kitten*! That's not you!" My driver's license photo is from when I was 230 lbs and around 40% body fat. I'm at 180llbs and 20% now. Any day you can get the HR rep to swear is a good one.

Chopped down a tree that was damaging the roof. I had to brute-force it over with ropes and physics after it didn't fall the way it should have. Said tree is thirty-feet tall, ten inches thick, and hung up on the peak of a two-story house. Took an hour total.

I killed something around seventeen zombies last night. Why the hell were they all carrying candy?

Zero. Bought the gear for my own.

Home gym, best of all worlds.

Interval training has been shown to give the largest CV benefits in the shortest time.

There's a couple of possibilities:* You're retaining more water than usual * Your calories are higher than what's being measured * Your workouts aren't burning the calories you think they are * You're in body re-composition - fat is being burned off at close to the same rate as lean body mass is being built * The "whoosh"…

Imma gonna let you finish, but I just wanna say fluctuating ± 2lbs isn't a big deal, really. Weight within a single day can easily vary ±6lbs depending on when and what you've eaten. This is well within the bounds of normal. Persistence and consistency definitely pay off. I dropped a full third of my body weight, gined…

Barring a medical issue, I wouldn't worry about it.

Somewhere, a chemistry and biology teacher are both banging their heads on their desks. Fat is less dense than muscle. Fat does not "turn into" muscle any more than muscle turns into fat, or bones turn into skin cells.

I adore the Rogue SML-1 with spotter arms. If I remember it was around USD 600 delivered. The big benefit is it uses West Side spacing - two inches in the range for the hooks for squats, and one inch in the range where you'll be bench pressing.

Starting strength (a very similar program to SL) has a warmup for each exercise this way:* 2x5 bar only * 1x5 40% working weight * 1x3 60% working weight * 1x2 80% working weight ... then your work sets.

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I had exactly NO support at all for my workouts or goals; my wife and mother in law thought I was losing weight too much and too fast - at dropping to ideal weight and a pound a week on average. If you're in the similar boat, do it for you. NOTHING is harder because I'm more fit, and a lot of things are easier.

If your bodytype is overweight eat less. If your bodytype is underweight, eat more.