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I didn't say a single mean thing. Sorry if you think I did, but I didn't.

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lol I'm only going off of what you've logged for the last month and what your goals are set to. BTW eating protein makes you less crabby.

It's only hard if you don't try. I'll be honest just from looking at your diary - you don't really seem to stress protein intake. Most everything you eat looks pretty carb heavy with just some protein thrown in. If you concentrated on making even a little bit of shift from your carbs to protein, I think you'd achieve what…

If you increase your protein intake, you will be MORE full while still staying under your calories for the day. For instance, chicken breast: Chicken Breast (Boneless, Skinless) , 1 ounces 36c 7p 1f 0c 0 So if you eat 6 ounces of chicken breast that's only 216 calories, but 42g of protein! That is EXTREMELY filling, you…

Pushups are a fundamental movement that everybody should practice no matter if you're trying for bench press or not. I agree with the trainer - try to do them during your training. BUT, doing a lying down dumbbell bench press (sounds like what you may have tried doing with the 15s?) is what you should try. Use 10s or 7.5s…

Actually thinking now, I did pause squats the other day. Pause squats are stopping at the bottom of your squat and holding it for a second. Then you really have to work harder to lift up out of the bottom of the squat. This would be great for hamstrings/glutes.

From Mark Rippetoe on Squats and hamstrings: ... All styles of squatting tend to make the quads sore, more so than any of the other muscles in the movement. This soreness occurs because the quads are the only knee extensor group, while the hip extensors consist of three muscle groups (hamstrings, glutes, adductors). They…

http://www.timinvermont.com/fitness/fund.htm You should start thinking about your programming more and how hard you are working in each workout to maximize your goals. If you are going to the gym every day and lolly gagging around, you are not working hard. If you are going to the gym every day and giving your best, you…

I have a sports nutritionist who set my goals, and he keeps me accountable. These are the macro ratios I use and have seen incredible results (for me) with because my goal is to 1) keep muscle 2) increase my lifts while losing weight 3) keep my weight consistently dropping without major fluctuations. When I eat high…

I do full body 3x a week because I'm obsessed with squats and bench, so I do them every workout. The fill in days I'll do sprints at home or go for a jog. I used to do something complicated when I would go to the gym more often like: Day 1: Legs / upper pulling Day 2: Legs / upper pushing Alternating that. Now I just…

Congrats on your goals, first off! A lot of people don't have them or even realistic ones, but yours are very attainable in a short amount of time. You are doing great by starting off lighter than what you know you can handle. Use this time to work on your form; you won't regret it! You may even be surprised that adding…

Grab a gallon of milk and do goblet squats or kettle bell swings. Do sprints outside! Unlimited Lunges. Pushups and planks.

I find it weird that you guys are thinking in pounds and in ruining things long term. Our system is in a constant process of creating energy and using energy. What she did was create a surplus of energy in her body. I'm not sugar coating it and saying it's just water, because it's not. We don't overeat and just have…

She went over in calories. It's going to turn into fat, no matter what. Our bodies are pretty efficient at doing things quickly, so yes... insta-fat is a great way of describing it.

Cute, but wrong. She went over calories and went over in carbs. She will gain, and it will be fat.

BTW, why do you have carbs as your 40%? For fat loss, it should be 40% protein, 30% fat, 30% carbs.

You went way over on carbs and that's the bad part. Going over on anything is bad though because you're not going to be losing fat if that's your goal. Protein can turn into fat just like carbs. You aren't ignoring calories... you are setting your macros to meet your calories and filling in the macros.

I guess I'll be different. OHP is one of the most dangerous exercises you can do, primarily for your lower lumbar. It is how I herniated a disc in my spine. What I did instead, because it is safer for the back, is seated overhead dumbbell presses.…

Don't talk to a doctor about nutrition - they know nothing. Talk to a nutritionist if you must, but just know that this whole anti-soy movement is seriously overblown.

You're going to have to do some research on how resting is one of the most important things for building muscle. Proper recovery is extremely important and you're not really doing that.

This of it as upper body and lower body days. And I would say that depends on how often you get to the gym. If you are going consistently, rotating upper body and lower body days is easy. If you're going with big gaps in between, I would do full body workouts. I do full body workouts every time because I give it my all in…

Honestly, you're lifting way too often to make progress. 5-7x a week?? No good program will ever suggest you do that. Other programs will, like Jamie Eason's Live Fit does... very frowned upon and just thrown together without thought or care as to why you do what you do.

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Hey Monaco... I'm not in the same boat as you, but I think we need to find a middle ground with each other. I weigh 129 now, cut from 136 or so on this diet. Currently I eat meat and a ton of it. I consume 1450 calories a day. 145 g of protein, 110 g of carbs, and like 45 g of fat. Those are estimates because I'm just…

Honestly, I have tried deloading and when I get back up to the same weight, it feels the exact same. However, my boyfriend would deload all the time and break through "the wall" he was hitting prior. But I don't deload at all. I do something until I am comfortable doing it so there is no reason to deload. I have used…

I can't tell you experience on any particular brand because I don't remember what I used... it was a set of different color bands for different weights, that is all. Probably only like $10 bucks on Amazon. Anyway, it is great to use, and you will see a lot of progress very quickly. Before I could do a pull-up on my own, I…

That's a great idea. Sometimes you just need to step back and do what works for you. I injured my back doing overhead presses that were absolutely too heavy for me. I took a half year break... did physical therapy and cable or goblet squats that kept weight off my back. Built up my core and focused on lower back exercises.…

Hey Abozoki... I'm making strength gains while cutting weight. I bench more now than I did when I was 20 pounds heavier actually. Now to Stronglifts. I had to give up the idea of making gains every time I worked out. If I feel like something was too heavy for me, I'll work it out three times that week and go up the next…

This isn't true at all. I don't know where this myth came from, but it really doesn't even make sense if you just stop and think about it.