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Start from these defaults:* All supplements are useless * How many calories you eat determine your weight * You'll get further with a good weight training program * Even the 'good' supplements are a rounding error in the fitness math If you're going to supplement your diet, know why and with what. Don't simply add…

No one dies from not having the other forms of insurance. I have several genetic factors that I can do nothing about - there are no lifestyle changes that will make them less of a problem. The medications to keep me relatively healthy in spite of these is billed to my insurance at roughly USD 50,000 a year. Without them, I…

By default, they already go with increased health issues requiring more doctor visits, more hospital stays, and more medications as they lapse into the Sick Aging Phenotype.

The difference between success and failure - in fitness and damned near everything else - is doing the work that needs doing even when you don't feel like it. Motivated people are in the gym in January. Disciplined people are in the gym on July 5th, nursing a hangover, and getting their workouts done.

Stronglifts app is good - if you're doing stronglifts. Once you're completed your linear progression and move to an intermediate program, you're going to need that flexibility in exercise choices and programming.

It depends on what you're pursuing. I have a love-hate relationship with Jefit for lifting, like Runtastic for outdoor walking/running (but it's crap for treadmills). But really, for weight lifting I find a notebook and a pen, along with videoing top sets, to be pretty sufficient these days.

Reducing a pile of dirty fill to usable soil. Pickaxe, shovel, screen, and wheelbarrow. I've gone as much as around 1200 in three hours that way. Burns you up good.

Pretty much this. If I'm doing a first-thing-in-the-morning workout I'll use them (BCAA 2:1:1, L-Glutamine, and 200-400mg caffeine) and get to it.

I hit it hard with a cocktail of Zyrtec, Mucinex, saline nasal rinses, and occasionally Benadryl to sleep. An incline pillow seems to help me sleep as well without drowning in my own snot.

I'm a geek about numbers, but view the calories (and to some extent the macros) as less hard and fast TRUTH than fields of probability. If six ounces of beef is supposed to be 300 calories, I'm going to figure it as such and presume the regression to the mean will normalize it over the long term.

Had a double inguinal hernia repair, orthoscopic under general anesthesia and mesh. Was back to lifting six days later, and was back to the usual lifting regimen with lower weights in two weeks.

I ran Starting Strength after cardiac surgery and went from just the bar (45lbs) on all exercises and in nine months got to: * Squat: 250 x 3 x 5 * Bench: 180 x 3 x 5 * Seated press: 115 x 3 x 5 * Deadlift 280 x 5

I only count the active part of cardio, and don't count weight lifting calorie burn at all.

You coach is an idiot. Continually training to muscular failure is a great way to need an orthopedic specialist.

Caveat: Haven't read 122 replies. You're tried being nice. Tell him to *kitten* off, and if he talks to you again go to gym management using the magic words "hostile environment", "harassment", and "stalking".

If squats are hurting your knees you need to have a coach who knows what the hell they're doing form check you.

At our workplace a flu strain's been circulating along with two different cold viruses. Knocked me down for a month of exactly what you're describing - head cold, recover some, all achy and sore throat, recover some, back to head cold.

"Marketing isn't screwing the customer; marketing just holds the customer down while sales screws them."

Pretty sure I know the yellow devil you're talking about. There's also [redacted] stack that works by upticking metabolic rate and downregulating hunger signals, but even on either of those you've still not learned anything other than taking pills works to drop weight.

Myprotein whey concentrate, and occasionally a preworkout that's a combination of 2:1:1 BCAA (leucine, isoleucine, valine), 20g L-glutamine, and 200mg caffeine.

Oh, I have. And I think they're all as full of *kitten* as Dr. Oz, and half as useful.

Seriously, try different sneakers. I've found I can burn out a pair of sneakers in about six months.

dudebro, what are you doing? I get lower back pain on my five reps when my form gets sloppy; specifically, if I lose tightness and my lumbar doesn't stay locked in extension. Doing 20-rep sets is a good way to lose that tightness without any benefit of strength gains.

Blood type diets are 99.94% crap by atomic weight.

Protein shakes are convenient food, not magic. 100 Calories, 20g protein. It either fits with your calories and protein, or it doesn't.

It depends on your workout. A morning lifting workout it wouldn't be bad to hit 20g BCAAs and maybe 20g L-glutamine beforehand and a high-protein breakfast afterwards for better muscle protein synthesis.

@jemhh put it far more concisely than what I was working on. Heavy is individualized - my heavy squat's weight is going to be a different from yours - but both will be five reps or fewer.

A scale measures the reality of youe weight. What you do with that knowledge isn't the scale's fault.

I've found if I sit too long or too much my back acts up. My (not a doctor) opinion is that the overwhelming majority of people don't have a "bad back" - they have a weak back, which can only be solved with proper resistance training. I've gone to the gym with my back aching, done my low bar squat warm up sets, and had…

For a more drastic version, when i had open heart I came home 35 lbs heavier - and lost roughly a pound a day in water weight.