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Depends on your strength building program. If your program has you squatting (like SS, SL, and other beginner strength programs) regularly that will build legs. There's other reasons to do cardio though beyond great legs, such as building conditioning to utilize your new strength gains.

No love for Mark Rippetoe's Starting Strength?

to echo @Dano74 - if you're tired, go. If you're tired AND it's late, or if you're tired enough that you can't focus, don't - but do go the next day. Do the process, but don't be a fool.

When you record, try to get a 45-degree angle from the back at around knee height - it's the best angle to see everything that's going on. Make sure both your feet AND at least one end of the bar is in view as well.

I bring chicken to work. I put the portion I want in the freezer the night before and it stays reasonably cold until lunchtime.

In a word, no.

Cut into strips. Pan fry in as little butter as you can. Mix with a can of Goya black beans and two cups cooked brown rice. Heat through on low. Devour.

For $300 you can get a beginner's barbell weight set at any decent sporting goods store and get a hell of a lot more out of it that this piece of crap.

Barbells can be wildly variable. Cap-branded barbells (as seen on Amazon) can range from 15lbs to 45lbs depending on the length, construction, and purpose.

While you don't have access to a barbell gym, the same principles can be applied to your Bowflex workouts. As a beginner, you can work out three times a week and increase the weight every workout. The adaptations are really that fast. I'd suggest amping up the resistance and doing five repetitions. Your starting resistance…

If you're new to the weight room the regulars are wondering who this new person is, same as if someone new starts at the workplace. Who cares what they think, really, though? It's not about them, and if they don't like the "fat chick" in "their" area, that's just too damned bad.

Started at 45; finished and got to the goal at 47, eighteen months later, with a 73lb loss. Harder than if I did it in my 20s? Probably. Harder does to equate with impossible.

Rebuild by squats, deadlifts, overhead pressing, bench pressing, and barbell rows. Realistically, whatever workouts you were doing previously, if they got you to your goals, work also for rebuilding as well. Also, you may have to punch up calories to heal; repairing trauma takes energy.

The main difference between food and cigarettes is you can't quit food cold-turkey. As @txtfyreflye pointed out CBT, I'l continue along that path with being exceedingly mindful of WHY you're eating as well as the WHAT. I try to self-dialog with "Am I actually hungry?" when I go to graze, and if it's not an adamant "yes"…

If the article and legislation talked about banning overweight models we wouldn't be having this discussion because it'd be seen as stupid, unnecessary, and discriminatory for no good reason.

We are. It's not my spouse's decision on what I do with my body - especially when it comes to demonstrably making it healthier. To accomplish this, I took no drugs, didn't purge, wasn't on whatever diet or pill of the week was on Dr. Oz. I ate less and moved more. No matter how many times I explained the end goal and how I…

Rebuilt the gym. The hastily-built platform I used to have rotted out because wet basement. New one eight feet wide like it should be, is raised off the floor on 2x4, and the deadlift "drop zone" is completely filled with 2x4 so breakthroughs won't be an issue. Total build time was under three hours. Before and after pics:

If we put them in a padded cell with kittens and puppies, they'd quickly find out kittens have claws and puppies like to bite.

None at all. I find music to be an incredible distraction.

Yes, let's enforce by law the notion that words can cause hurtful self-realizations. In the USA there is such a victim mentality that it's nauseating. Posting pictures of your own weight loss and fitness success somehow "shames" fatasses and is "triggering". That catfishing and being rejected for being deceptive is…

Got called "... the poster-child of the Righteous Path" when it comes to weight lifting by a guy who squats twice as much as I do. What he means, he explained, is I'm " ...doing everything right that [he] should be doing" by the way I train, test, and get stronger simply because I can.

Try looking on the USDA's website. A google search for USDA SR28 will bring you to their lookup database where potassium is listed for 8000+ foods.

OP: If you're breathing, it's not too late. The tl;dr version of my story:* Started age 45, fat all my adult life, at 105kg/230lbs * Ate less, walked a lot, started weight training * Dropped to 72kg/156 lbs over eighteen months * Open heart surgery out of nowhere (unrelated to fat or weight loss) * Told it would take at…

"I am working out, not working." Yes, I'm blunt.

Buddy of mine does it and maintained well as long as he stayed on it. Blood numbers were fantastical as well across the board.

Seems an unnecessary complication to "eat less than your TDEE".

And people lived to the ripe old age of "Died of dysentery."

Anyone who claims, without evidence, that "squats are bad for the joints" has shown you their opinion can be totally ignored with regards to weight training because they have not the slightest idea what weight training does to a body.

I don't have to eat the WHOLE egg to know it's rotten.

I went through an eighteen month weight loss, averaging just under a pound a week over the whole process. The only time it felt hard for a long stretch - as opposed to just a bad day - was toward the end when I was close to my goal weight because at my height, age, and weight I needed to get down to 1400 calories or so to…