fivethreeone Member

seems more like OP is broken.

You get out of here with your logic! Can't a girl just rant and make excuses in peace around here?!

the crab apple doesn't fall far from the crab tree, I guess.

It really depends on the nature of the injury, how trained you were prior to the injury, and how long you took off from working out. The good thing is that trained muscle responds faster; you'll get your noob gains again and you'll also probably exceed where you were in less time than it took you to get there initially.…

The most simple approach: Eat at maintenance and focus on fitness. Lift, run, swim, hike, do whatever you enjoy. Level 2 approach: eat at maintenance, lift heavy 3-4 days a week, and maybe run 1-2 days a week. Level 3 approach: bulk/cut, lift heavy 4-6 days a week, and get one of those shirts that says "Yeah, no. Don't put…

Come on now, that's too easy. You clearly like hay and grass.

Jealousy looks bad on you, Dave. :laugh:

You are awesome. So much commitment and dedication has gone into this transformation, and I'm proud of you. Happy I got to be there for it. :smiley:

You poor thing :( Op, I would have just rolled with it. Built in excuses are the best.

You must mean that sarcastically. I just can't take all this judgment.

HOW DARE YOU, SIR!

Today I learned that a truly amazing number of people can turn even a compliment into an offensive comment.

17.4% body fat is low for a woman. That's a perfectly acceptable body fat percentage to begin a bulk at.

Just so I understand.... you don't know what squats and deadlifts are, so you're asking for people to suggest things that you HAVE heard of?

The grass is always greener. There have always been plenty of negative people and there always will be plenty of negative people. Whether you choose to let that cloud your vision is up to you.

You're sort of conflating two things. Losing fat and gaining a lot of muscle are two separate things and pretty much never happen at the same time. What you need to realize is that size is a matter of diet, not exercise. Most people lose fat while weight training as a matter of eating at a calorie deficit. Then, once they…

No problem :smile: Here's a good place to start http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/articles/

If you are a normal, healthy human, no single food will hinder your weight loss, assuming you are within a calorie deficit.

If you bulk you *will* get fluffy. The amount of fluff you add depends entirely on how much you eat, but you will gain muscle and fat, that's just how it works, and from what you said mentioning bulking and then cutting it sounds like you do understand that. As you have not yet reached your goal weight, it is probably not…

Same here, basically no ab work. (a few sets of HLRs once a week, but definitely no Dedicated Ab Day or real focus on abs in training). Not that my abs are on your level, but the idea that abs only come from doing certain exercises definitely needs to be dispelled.

DANGIT. Now I'm a zombie.

This isn't really true; as you said in your OP it depends on your weight.

IMO, eggs have a really poor protein:fat ratio so I rarely eat whole eggs and I don't really think of them as a high protein food. Obviously, chicken and fish will help you out, but the main issue is that you're not eating *enough* of your protein sources. Like chicken, you had 4 oz. That's not very much. Maybe go for 6 oz…

But does your face look nice enough as you're saying that?

Lol, you're a dude?! I just went to your profile like, wtf who is this celery and cracked up to discover you're a 35-year-old dude. That's it, I'm out. This is the apex.

"Gym rules" are general standards of etiquette that a lot of people ask about around here. As such, the list given in the OP is a pretty accurate representation of how people should behave in the gym. BFDeal rules are, fortunately, no BFDeal.

Really? Now you want to tell me what expression should be on my face in the gym? When I'm in the zone I do look hyper-focused, which some people might take as looking angry. And no, I'm not going to try to adjust my face into a pleasant configuration in order to not scare you. Instead I'll say, "I might look angry, but I'm…

I mean, you can take it how you want. Either read that and think, "Hey, I should re-rack my weights so I'm not a jerk," or read it and complain that someone didn't package their advice in your particular favorite color wrapping paper.

I'm a fan of those Hint of Lime ones, but yeah, pork belly and hoisin would blow my mind.

What ILiftHeavyAcrylics said, as well as focusing on an appropriate warm up and cool down. Many times soreness can be caused by not recovering the muscles properly. I like to spend a few minutes doing some dynamic stretches in the sauna before and after a workout and it keeps me from feeling sore even after a particularly…