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Hm. So you reduce the whole post down to one line and decide the entire thing comes off as elitist and a-holish? What flavor is the chip on your shoulder?

this is like going from riding a bike to riding a tricycle. there's definitely a place for workout DVDs (those snowy days you mentioned, for one thing), but overall the potential for self-improvement is lower with workout DVDs.

aaaand the comments turn into a debate on pot smoking. oh Internet, never change.

Unfortunately, I feel like chicken is taking over my life, too. I regularly eat a pound of chicken breast a day. Best ideas I have are to eat it with various grains and sauces. I like couscous, wild rice, brown rice, and "cream of" soups, skillet sauces (target has some great ones, including a green Thai curry, a spicy…

How about....more chicken? I frequently eat a pound of chicken in the course of a day, plus protein shakes, egg white+cheese omelets, and tuna or salmon. Also, a 10g "high-protein" (lol) packet of Quaker oatmeal with 1-2 scoops of protein powder in it can be delicious and 35-60g protein right there. It does take some work,…

I work out before work. For a while I got up at 4am to do it, but fortunately I don't need to do that any more. I'm not a morning person, either, but I did it with the knowledge that if I waited, chances were that I wouldn't get around to it later.

Deadlift 250 Bench 135 I have other minor goals, but those are the big ones.

What is causing the pain? My first guess would be having the heavy bar on your shoulders for squats, which would cause pain if you were supporting it skeletally rather than muscularly. Do you contract your traps to create a "shelf" for the bar to rest on before you unrack it?

How many grams per day is that? You should set your protein goal in grams. A standard recommendation for those losing weight/strength training is 1g per pound of lean body mass. In a typical day I often eat Egg white omelet with cheese & sausage for 40g protein 8 oz chicken breast for 46g protein 1-2 scoops protein powder…

In fact, these regular cannolis are only 200 calories! Score!

I love peaches and I love mustard, but eating them together would be a terrible mistake. Just saying.

It's because the camera really does add weight, due to a change in perspective. http://petapixel.com/2012/07/17/why-the-camera-adds-10-pounds-seeing-ourselves-in-pictures/

I agree. It is much less effective and shouldn't be the first choice of pretty much anyone. However, progressive overload is possible.

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Definitely this. OP, I did StrongLifts 5x5 with no spotter, and plenty of people do it that way. If you use a power rack/cage, you can do everything, including a bench press, without a spotter.

Progressive overload comes from changing the difficulty of the movement. For example, a full planche pushup is unequivocally significantly more difficult than a standard push up. Free weights are absolutely more efficient at building strength, but to argue that progressive overload can't occur in body weight training shows…

The truth of a claim doesn't matter if it is irrelevant to the point at issue. Nobody said bodyweight exercises were more efficient. You're arguing a point that isn't being contested.

Special pleading and begging the question are logical fallacies, but I do appreciate the sheer effort you put into typing all those words.

How long has this plateau lasted? How much are you eating daily?

Both are strength training. One is merely more efficient. "Strength training: a method of improving muscular strength by gradually increasing the ability to resist force through the use of free weights, machines, or the person's own body weight. Strength training sessions are designed to impose increasingly greater…

Nobody questioned how far you can get on body weight exercises. It was merely asserted that they will not provide the same results as training with free weights. Plenty of lifters use body weight work to round out their programs to good results, but lifting heavy will produce faster strength gains than body weight alone.

This is a bodyweight program.

Yup. I do both of these things when I know I will be eating out. Saving my calories and eating what I really want is never a bad call.

Eat at a calorie deficit.

You should not build something custom unless you're an advanced lifter. As a beginner, you need to build your overall base strength with a preset newbie program. Something like StrongLifts 5x5 or Starting Strength.

Logging, but not limiting.

This.

Hi Rumi

It's not a powerlifting program, but it's great for cross-training. I've been doing it for the past three months and I really like it. It's a four-month mesocycle, so it's very slowly progressive, but I'm hitting rep PRs pretty much every week on it. http://www.powerliftingtowin.com/the-juggernaut-method/

Dehydration and low carbs until you make weight, then stuff your face. But seconding what whodidntante said, it's not advisable to stress your body like that unless it's for a major goal.