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Not necessarily true. There have been numerous studies showing HIIT improving endurance and stamina. Tabata is probably overkill though.

Unless you're really going all out on one or the other, it's not going to make a difference. Cardio and strength training are complementary despite what you may have heard, especially for non-competitive purposes. Both are both necessary for general health and fitness.

Snatch and clean/jerk.

Haha! What?

If you're confident in your form, you're better off upping the weight to a point where 5x5 feels challenging. If you're getting 20 reps, you need to up the weights big time. In fact, if you can do ten reps, the weight is too light. But ONLY if you're confident you're using good form. When I ran SL a year ago, I jumped from…

SL 5x5 is a linear progression program (you add the same amount of weight every session). Eventually, you won't be able to do this and you'll plateau. At that point, you should look at moving to an intermediate program with periodization. 5/3/1 is probably the most popular intermediate programming template out there. You…

I weight daily and average the numbers at the end of the week. That's my weight. I'll measure every now and then if I'm curious.

Thanks for your response. Maybe this is a stupid question but how come I log total calories without considering the amount burned during exercise? [/quote] The amount burned during exercise will be accounted for in your weight. Calories in is simply the amount you eat each day. Your weight at the end of the week will tell…

In this thread: a bunch of guys who think they have a lot more muscle mass than they do calling BMI worthless. It's a good rule of thumb for the vast majority of the population. People are much fatter today than they were 50 years ago. What we THINK is not fat today would have been considered fat fifty years ago. Yes, for…

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If you try again, my suggestion would be only enter the last two months of data. Less chance for error and data from a year ago probably isn't even relevant to your current situation.

Hmm. I don't know. My intuition is that there was a data entry error somewhere but who knows? Anyway, sorry it didn't work out for you.

How long are your walks and how strenuous are they? At your weight, a one-mile walk at a moderate pace will burn around 35 calories. So if you're taking three one-mile walks per day that would work out to around 100 calories expended due to exercise. If you're walking five miles per walk, then we're getting into the range…

What do you mean by 30k steps per day? If you have a 2.5 foot stride, that works out to around 14 miles. Are you walking an additional 14 miles a day in addition to your regular activity or are you just using a pedometer or activity tracker to track your steps? It makes a big difference in the calculations. Your sheet said…

Just curious. What do you think your tdee is and why do you think that?

The sheet uses the data you input to calculate your current TDEE. Using this, it reports the recommend daily caloric intake to lose weight at your desired rate. It's simply a tracking tool like anything else.

That isn't true. Perhaps it didn't give you the number you were expecting, but this does take activity into account because it uses nothing other than weight and calorie intake to determine your TDEE. If you search through the Reddit r/fitness sub you'll find hundreds of people who have used this sheet to track their…

You really don't have to spend your time squatting or benching the bar if it's too easy. Up the weight to a number that is more challenging but not so challenging you can't complete it.

You need to go heavier. :D

Heavy squats are an anaerobic exercise. I can get my heart rate up to 170+ doing a set of heavy reps. But burpees are better for sustained, elevated heart rate. You can do burpees slowly for an extended period of time. Not so with squats.

Ah yes. The Cool Hand Luke fitness program. :)

Your TDEE depends on your weight, age, gender and activity level. It is the total energy you expend in a day. It doesn't depend on your caloric intake. Your caloric intake determines your rate of weight change depending on your given TDEE. The sheet will calculate your TDEE but you need to be accurate and consistent in…

First, it's not my spreadsheet. It was made by a Reddit user on /r/fitness named nSuns. The original is at https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/wiki/getting_started#wiki_step_1.3A_fixing_your_diet If you want to dig into the guts of the calculations, you can expand the hidden columns by selecting the arrow on the X column near…

Also, my logging isn't always entirely accurate. I always round my calories up to the nearest 100 at the end of the day. That's going to throw the calculations off a bit from time to time.

The first few weeks are relatively inaccurate as the tool starts with an estimate and as water weight comes off. After a month or so the numbers get dialed in. I do exercise six days a week though, mostly strength training and some HIIT/LISS cardio, but it varies from week to week. The important thing is that it will give…

It calculates solely from your weight and your caloric intake. You don't need to account for exercise calories (or anything else) with this method as long as you are accurate in your caloric intake. You do need to give it three weeks or so to become accurate.

Want to snatch my BW by the end of 2018. Need to get down to at least 77kg to have a shot. Five more to go!

Hike for fun and to keep your body healthy. Ignore calorie burn; it's going to be inaccurate. Get your diet in check to lose fat.

And math. ;)

I'm 5'10, 181. I work out six days a week (four olympic weightlifting, one 60-min HIIT session, and one 30 mile bike ride). My maintenance level is over 2600 calories per day. I'm losing over one pound per week at 2000. It depends how active you are, but 1500 seems pretty low. Of course this all depends on how accurate you…