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On homegyms: Do it. A good barbell gym for the house - if you've got a ten foot square to put it in - is about the same price as a crossfit gym for a year. Mine all told has cost about USD 1500.

Barbells, plates, a power cage, a bench, and grunting, sweating, and swearing.

A statistic I read a while ago: 65% of bankruptcies have a root cause of a health crises. 85% of those bankruptcies had health insurance. Something is fundamentally broken.

On health care costs and "everyone should pay their own way"... I have an autoimmune disease that, after many years of treatment, responds only to one class of medications at this point. There is no routing around it, there are no lifestyle changes that will make a significant difference in my medication requirements.…

I wonder how much being obese over long time periods screws with normal metabolic pathways. I'm not saying obesity cause Cushing's (even I'm not that dumb) but how it shifts the entire human ecosystem around, including damaging normal processes to store fat preferentially to other tissue building process. I'm not smart…

The Jerk and Clean are properly performed lifts. A kipping pullup uses swing momentum to get the rep. Simlarly, a deadlift starts from a dead stop - hence the name. Bouncing the plates and doing another rep is using bounce momentum to get the rep. Check out the lower tiers of a crossfit games. The reps of the non-elite…

I compromise around the other events in my life all the time, setting the workouts as a lower priority than holidays and other thighs that life decides to throw in the path. If I'm routinely put in a position where "it's me or the workout" I guess I'll miss her.

Why I dislike crossfit as a whole: * If you're following the crossfit WODs, you are not training, you're exercising. * Kipping pull-ups are not pull ups. The momentum of the swinging robs you of an effective strength training technique the same way does a bounced deadlifts does. * AMRAP on highly technical lifts is a good…

People overall seem to conflate weight gain and fat gain. Most medication weight gain is water retention. It's been my experience there's very few medications that cause fat gain, and those are ones that screw with satiation and/or cortisol.

That's just someone being stupid.

Certainly is possible to lose weight at an alarming rate when your body's collapsing. Pre-Chron's diagnosis I dropped fifteen pounds in four days as my body struggled valiantly to fight off multiple systemic infections while I was leaking blood all over and couldn't force myself to eat. Spent five days in hospital for that…

What a load of crap. Excuses have the implication that the person saying it has no culpability, that the results aren't their fault because of outside forces. "I am overweight because I eat more than my TDEE" is a reason. "I am overweight but I have bad genetics" is an excuse.

ATP requires time, and you can't speed up biochemistry. Ten minutes is about the most you should need if you're pushing multi-set singles.

I can't work out the way you do! Nor could I, at the beginning, work out the way I do now. I don't eat that much "not that much" is not a measurement I haven't lost any weight this week! You started this week. I tired counting calories, it didn't work! You stopped eating mostly protein-laden foods for five days then binged…

Imma gonna let you finish, but you immediately conflated losing WEIGHT with losing FAT. They are not the same.

MyProtein USA isn't terrible either. Their delivery is fast, the product seems good, and their isolates are very mix-able. I've yet to get any product from them that wasn't good (aside form the Rocky Road isolate, which tasted horrid). If that's not enough, they have sales all the time and currently have a 20% off running.…

I've found I do really well on 25/45/30 protein/carbs/fat diet overall. And, even though it's relatively high protein, if I space out the protein intake to 40g max every few hours I don't get the dreaded toxic gas.

"There's no such thing as an essential carbohydrate." --Will Brinks

My experience has been the more highly-processed and/or "fortified" a food is, the worse it tastes. I've also lost my sweet tooth.

Is that a Rogue SML-1 rack with spotter arms I see? A proper home barbell gym can take up as little as a 10ft x 10ft space.

I would love to see "entire package" as a serving size in parallel with a sane "per serving" size.

Did you eat it? Does it have calories? THEN RECORD IT. How hard is this concept?

Because no one likes the ideas that* their weight gain was entirely under their control the whole time * weight loss is not necessarily easy * lifting weights is hard * persistence is required that's why.

So, it'll be a cat?

I always start from the premise on a supplement that it's worthless unless and until I can find significant studies that can show otherwise. All supplements I take are for a very specific purpose:* Fish oil, for the autoimmune disease I have; * D3 because it's still winter where I am * Multivitamin because SWMBO gives me…

Need to buy new pants - waist is perfect, but my thighs are bigger thanks to weight lifting

Pulled a 295lb deadlift... on a misloaded bar... one side was 10lbs heavier than the other. Oops/

Your OB/GYN sounds like an insufferable dope if s/he thinks a treadmill is dangerous or you're so fragile that a slip and fall will seriously injure you or the fetus.

Over 9000 this. I video my lifts all the time to work on eliminating a range of small errors.

Squats should always be below parallel, by which I mean the crease of the hip is lower than the crease of the knee. Squatting high - where the hip crease is consistently higher than the knee crease - is a lot more likely to cause knee injury from the stress of changing direction. Weight doesn't matter as much as good form;…