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One winter my son asked me if I'd seen his $50 bill he'd left on the end table. I said no. The next spring I found it chewed up in the dogs area. U.S. currency is strong enough to survive a trip through a dog's digestive tract. Very True Story.

This one time, at band camp....

What does your scale say?

The Sopranos when it was running; currently looking forward to the new season of Archer.:glasses: Who is Archer? Just the World's Deadliest Secret Agent. Unfortunately, it's a 50/50 chance that the next person he will kill is one of his own...

I see where you say what you want him to do, but I do not see where you say what he wants to do. Guess that would be the first step - find out if he wants to add muscle or not.

Try Alternating 1 Legged Romanian Deadlifts. See how awkward you feel after those. Lunges will feel graceful (at least they do for me).

Body composition is tough to accurately measure, especially through a scale. Skin fold calipers are a better choice, but to get real accurate with those, you'll need someone who knows what they're doing to take the measurements. I can't recall the name of the product, but there is one out there for $20 or so (I think it…

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Another vote for getting completely tested, medically speaking. I'm a former smoker and former runner (ran a 38:11 10K while smoking a pack a day) and had no problems like this when I was smoking or when I quit. Living in Michigan, cold weather is part of life. I could run all through the winter without much of an issue…

I use MFP for the food journal and as the guide to how much more I can eat for the day. The calories here are what I go by. I use a HR monitor to measure the calories burned during exercise as FitBit Flex never seems to think I exercise as much as the HRM. When I'm doing strength or bodyweight training, the Flex doesn't…

If someone approached me asking my advice, I would be polite and give them a response. I give no unsolicited advice. I would and have interjected some safety warnings when I saw something happening that could injure someone, but generally I would report such to the gym management. Like Knockingon50, I would not accept the…

Squats will hit your entire leg and hip area, not to mention a host of other body parts, in some fashion. Doing them in one way can have an impact on which area of the leg feels it the most. However, the way you squat should have more to do with safety than with which muscles you're hitting. I've heard a lot of people say,…

It just goes to show that we, as consumer's of fitness information, need to research what some of these yahoos tell us. That is one sad, effing statement. My wife, who recently had surgery for an inner ear issue, was told not to lift more than 5-10 pounds post-op so as not to increase internal pressure in the ear. Medical…

My wife and I both use a Fitbit Flex with MFP and have for the past couple months. Very happy with how they work with each other. We use MFP for logging our food intake and exercise.We don't log much on the FitBit site, just use the Flex more as a motivator than anything else.

Building strength does not have to mean adding weight, or bulking. Strength can also come from training the nervous system to contract your muscles harder in order to generate more strength. A great deal of strength can be built using this method. Many people confuse muscle size with muscle strength. Sorry, but bigger does…

One of my favorite sandwiches from back in my younger years; peanut butter, honey and coconut. Throw in some banana slices, good eating.

I think what you're looking at is that your hands haven't adjusted to what you're asking them to do. There are more than a few solutions, but getting straps takes away a valuable part of the exercise, and that is increased grip strength. If you're not concerned about strengthening your grip, there are implements out there…

We are all "experiments of one". We respond to inquiries made here with what experiment has worked for us in the past. Science is not necessarily the answer, at least not where the science of diet and exercise is today. Too many bogus claims of the efficacy of this method over that through "studies" that are so biased or…

I used to be able to do this a a teenager about 40+ years ago. If you google planche progression training you'll get quite a few hits on various programs to progress to this level.

$0.00 I work out in the park, the backyard or in the basement. I stopped paying gym membership fees many years ago. I buy my own equipment when I think I need it. Saves a ton of time and money.

My wife and I use our HR monitors to determine calories burned. We do not burn calories at the same rate. You can edit the calories MFP says you burn and plug in the numbers from your HR.

Define "functional". What's "functional" about lying on your back and pushing a heavy bar off your chest? Very few have to do anything like that in everyday life. What's "functional" about standing under a heavier bar, bending your knees and standing back up again? See above statement. Just because it's a multi-joint…

Biggest con I can think of is a choking hazard.

As a personal trainer, you by now probably realized you left out a very important piece of information: What are your goals? You described the type of routine you are looking for, but what are you looking to accomplish? If you're looking to increase your strength, but not your size, I would suggest Power to the People…

What I noticed from you log is the consistent overages in your carbs and the more than occasional overage in sodium. Try to lower these. Sodium will cause you to hold water weight; glucose has the same tendency. I would also up your water intake the 8 cups per day as a minimum. I find that some have a tendency to sub other…

I'm following You Are Your Own Gym. Started the beginner program about 4 weeks ago before I joined up here. I'm really liking it due to the variety it offers. My goal is to get through the remaining 6 weeks of the beginner program, then assess where I want to go from there. I've done the whole weight training thing for…

Try a heart rate monitor that calculates the calories burned.

Pull-up bar Freestyle Trainer (I'd get one with rings-I have the Trainer and wish I'd gone with rings, but either will do). http://www.ringtraining.com/shop/equipment.html I'm more biased towards bodyweight training these days. Lots you can do with only bodyweight to get stronger and leaner. Use the leftover $300 or so for…

Just eating at with the calorie deficit will allow you to lose the weight. Just don't go too far into calorie deficit and turn it into a crash diet; you'll likely crash before the diet does. From a personal standpoint, I prefer bodyweight training these days, 3-4 days a week with a Nordic Track x-country ski machine on the…

A banana-plain, simple and direct.