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BMI isn't a good measure for individuals per se. it's for populations. throw that idea out to figure out your "ideal weight" with the BMI. there are better individualized measures that can be used as a help. Just not the BMI

THE HORROR!!!!!! but agreed - the trainer should know best. beginner programs are good cuz they're easy to implement, etc. There's a bunch of them. Trainer should know them and help you - you know, earn his/her moolah.

i think I prefer the word "churchyard" to "symmetry". Church yard. Kirkegaard... yep. definitely prefer that one.

so many congrats!!! and many more healthy conquests to you!!! YAY!

not even in college during xmas workouts? really? that's a good vid! love it! the part about the "black line" really resonated. :) captured that feeling right before the taper - the final meet in February against the rivals... fastest times of the year. ... it felt like... the lambroghini in the beginning of "cannonball…

I never said this. we were talking strength gains and had progressed beyond the OP's point. and not sure of the relevance pre 20th century. okay. I'll play. life expectency. childhood diseases. accidents with improper stabilization. whee. irrelevance.

cool, thanks!

^^^Eats -- gotcha! sorry - i was taking the "Free speech" interpretation from a different board and different thread and projected it here. :blush: Walk - north shore is really something. mmmmm. been years. must go back! good call

they should be thinking exactly the same thing, so it shouldn't be a problem for you. NOW: understanding life doen't work that way, and you're right and smart for being proactive, what the people above are saying. Sabine - your quote echoes what Bill Murray's character says in the beginning part of the movie "Stripes".…

but... but... but.... MOMMIE ALWAYS SAID..... *runs out hysterically*

funny! most probably are too young to remember the genesis of the term Jonestown, French Guyana 1979 (I think... maybe 78). Reverend Jim Jones had his cult memebers drink cyanide-laced kool ade in a mass suicide. Remember the "Heaven's Gate Cult" with the Hale Bop (spelling?) comet in something like 1997? with the white…

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go at whatever cadence you like. whatever direction you like. whatever works. have fun and elliptical away! yay!

free speech? lol. if MFP wants to censor anything, they can. this is their board. and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. if someone wants their 'free speech' to be taken seriously, they better back it up. they're not free from getting their idea mocked, shot down, tickled, held-as-gosple or what-have-you.…

BMI = good for populations BMI <> not so good for individuals. maybe for ballparking it. but it's a population level measure when it's at its best

SHE'S A WITCH!!!!!!!!

boxing? no. endurance, sure. not strangth. if you can load enough the other ones, of course. but it's hard to find DBs or KBs enough for the big lifts (squat, dead, press). rock climbing - more skill/bw based. i don't think some of those would follow #5 progressive overloading. YMMV / strength levels may vary so that's the…

that's a cool question (re: hunger around workout) - a friend on the college swim team would always be famished after the first few workouts of the year; his girlfriend was the opposite. She tended to get famished just after the halfway point of the season. just out of curiosity, who did the article? what research was it…

just be careful with Devlin MacGregor's PROVASIC. see what it did to my liver?

oh agreed! and sticking to it is the key! thanks again!

the semantics of bw movements versus bb movements notwithstanding, at some point newbie gains will go away and BW overload, even with more advanced movements, can eventually go away too. (IOW - I understand the "BW training is BW training; strength training is strength training" - different modalities for different goals.…

^^ LolBro: thinking of what you're mentioning (varieties of programming), T-nation is a perfect example of offering programs like what I think you're saying - is this right? (e.g., http://www.t-nation.com/training/12-habits-of-big-lifters; http://www.t-nation.com/training/from-beginner-to-badass-5-strategies;…

like a residency position!

or on snatches where you can bonk yer schnoz! from reading your story, TS, it looks like you're really doing great and I see this as a sign of "the next level". keep on kicking arsch! yay!

awesome! (dammit, I just spilled again... grumble) *salutes*

double lolz. NESCAC graduate, and no, not Bates. and those teachers churn out people like you. it's quite the cycle!

fair enough but then we're chasing our tails with "program /progression" etc. and just put it into blocks. point is, there are tons of programs out there and why reinvent the wheel? the basics are known - often alternatives want to get around the basics. there are many ways of doing LISS, but the basic format of LISS is…

you're rockin it! stats are scared off! and don't forget to add the extra awesome. and then stomp the hell out of the scale. Being awesome is one helluva good start to recalibrate. lovin it! :)

and dr oz and oprah and food babe are all thankful for your beliefs too. Herballife. HCG folks. exactly why "evolution" and "legitimate rape" are actual political discussions in the US... lolz.

do you even lift bro?