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"I find you bringing up how little or how much another grown *kitten* human adult chooses to eat weird and passive aggressive. If you keep doing it, I will start bringing up politics when we are at crowded bars"

SL really needs the third day to maintain it's dirt simple nature. BUT - it doesn't actually take very long once you've been through all the stuff a few times, and you should be working with relatively light weight at first so it won't eat into your other stuff nearly as much as you might think. If you really don't have…

OK. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume there's a language or knowledge issue here - "Stronglifts 5x5" is the proper name of a specific form/stabilization building program. We are not discussing the "normal" 5x5 experienced lifters do. It's essentially like physical therapy for your lifting form. The…

You would probably benefit from a therapist not because this person says you need one, but as a general "quarterback" for the team that's helping you and a touchstone for yourself. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater because someone snarkily suggested it. Your nutritionist (not to defend her manner) is probably not…

If there's a smith station next to a regular squat cage, is there any good reason to use the smith machine? No. It doesn't have anything to do with cheating or ego or whatever. You're lifting to hit a goal, the free weights work better. End of convo. There's NO REASON to use a smith unless there's no cage in the gym.…

It's very hard to describe but if you are squatting perfectly, you're actually using quite a bit of active tension in the arms and back - almost like you're trying to bend the bar over your shoulders. if you're pulling/squeezing the bar down into your shoulders firmly, it will actually relieve some of the pressure of…

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rather than focus on your chest, build a proportionate back and shoulders in the gym. And remember what nice guy eddie says in SLCPunk - "it's not that they're giving you *kitten* about ____, It's that they're giving you *kitten*" it may be that a little bit of fat on your chest won't go all the way away. There are guys in…

"Some kind of high powered mutant, never intended for mass production."

There's nothing wrong with pushups unless 1) You can't do one, in which case you need to work with less than you weigh by about 1/2 or 2) You can do 50+, in which case you might as well bench and save time.

unless you are in a place with NOTHING BUT a smith machine, don't use one for ANYTHING. If there is ONLY a smith machine, use it to hold your towels and drinks while you do burpees. they are garbage and mills for knee and shoulder injuries, especially if you are under 5'9" or over 6'... If you're worried about the need for…

You have to log accurately for any method coming from this forum to work for you. if you have intermittent internet, write it down, then put it all in when you can. It is VERY LIKELY that if you are logging from memory or guessing about your serving sizes and intake, you're getting things wrong, which is why everyone keeps…

If you're weightlifting wrong, this is true. most people lift too many lifts a day, mess around with them too long, and rest more than needed. You can see significant strength gains/aesthetic results if you just do two opposing compound lifts a day, 5x5 or so on the sets, with a moderate amount of weight, short rests of no…

The key thing that gets lost in all the hypotheticals is that a "better" diet is more nutritious (calories aside) and more satiating. The reason no one loses weight on a "donuts and candy" diet (except a few disciplined people who have done it short term to make the point that it's possible) Is because 2000 calories of…

I can tell at least some lifting burns calories because if I do a strong compound lift workout I get hungry. I can tell it's doing SOMETHING after I stop because I maintain increased vascularity and my limb diameter actually goes up. The body is doing SOMETHING to cause those responses. It is definitely doing more than the…