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An excellent all round post and did a better job at summing up what I was trying to say :) For me, I think this last paragraph was an excellent summation and is worthy of a second montion!

Oh dear, it seems like I've been misunderstood :( Again my intention wasn't to belittle anyone or the choices they make. If anything the sheer fact they have started to take an interest in what they eat, what they do is a step in a right direction. I was simply giving my opinion on the matter. But in the interest of trying…

Argos is probably your best bet, or sports direct for cheaper weight sets. Maybe even check ebay, or the classified ads...at the end of the day your body wont know if you are using a shiny new set of weights or a rusty old set. Best of luck!

Personally I think it is simply a way of people cheating themselves into believing they can eat more calories. Wear the HRM, count the calories from cleaning the house, enter it as exercise and then have extra calories to eat. But by that logic I assume these people wouldn't clean their house if they weren't on a diet... I…

Excellent advice already put forward. Obviously depending on level of fitness and running experience the advice can be altered to suit your experience level. The only thing I'd like to point out is that the notion of "toning" your muscles is not actually a reality. You will drop fat if you are eating right and you are…

Rest is vital as others have said. That is the time the muscles repair and grow. It is a good idea to also split your workouts as well so you give your muscles a break even when you are not resting. Cardio is a good way to combat muscle soreness as it gets the blood flowing around the muscle groups. But as already…

Thanks for the recommendation I'll try to track it down and have a watch.

Hiya, Welcome to the forums! Yes I'm well aware of the Twinkie diet. In fact that is what spurred me to make that comment about two diets for comparison. I hadn't read the article you posted, and will do so after I walk the dog. But I have skimmed through it. I've seen no mention of the professors body fat percentage…

I really wish I could agree with you on the calorie in vs calorie out mentality. But I can't. A calorie is not just a calorie. There is a difference between weight loss and fat loss. If you're only concerned with the number on the scale. Calories in vs calories out is great. You can eat what you want and as long as you are…

Well, as I said in my previous post, I'm posting a section from a book. I didn't type all that. So don't worry I did waste too much time. Thanks for your concern though, I have better ways of spending Saturday night. Now, while I appreciate that not everyone will subscribe to more meals and meal frequency, and while I also…

Firstly, some people if they are genetically gifted can get away with low meal numbers, eat what they want and burn through it all without storing anything. These are the people who seem to do very little at the gym and always end up looking good.... Let's ignore them. Obviously everything is slightly different for all…

Hi there :) Just had a peek at your diary. 1200 a day is an anemic amount of calories...especially for a man. I obviously don't know your health conditions, current weight, exercise routine etc etc but here are some suggestions: 1) Increase your calories - seriously! I've been doing a lot of reading and it seems to point…

Flip your menu around...you are eating hardly anything in the morning and then potentially over-eating at night. The snacks you're listing are they after differ snacks? How long between snacking and bed time? Ideally you want to try and eat complex carbs rather than simple carbs such as the white breads, and all those…

Cardio, weights and small frequent meals WILL boost the metabolism. Your body is a very clever "machine" it will adjust based on the above three factors. Sitting on your backside, hardly eating or "starving and stuffing" WILL NOT boost your metabolism. Pills and supplements probably work, but do you know the health risks?

Two things, you can't loose weight in a specific area and you can't tone up...there really isn't such a thing. You can only drop body fat, which in turn leads to a more "toned" and tight look on the muscles. Also since you want to gain muscle your weight loss should actually be fat loss. To do this you need to watch your…

No worries, best of luck :) A small tip, I'm actually doing this, each day just make a note of the calories you're meant to be eating and put that in the note section for that day. Doing this allows you to go back and look over your food diary and you know what you were meant to be eating for that day.

From what I've seen and understand fill in the details get your seven day split and then you simply have to change your goals within MFP every day in accordance to the ZigZag calorie count. This is less than ideal as MFP will change the calorie count for all your days, but it is the only way to be able to track everything…

How many days a week can you train, and for how long each time? This will ultimately have more of an impact on what routine to follow than anything else. I would argue at first it is more important to get the different workouts down, so maybe don't worry about splits and different mixes, but more about getting the…

To have gained 4lb of muscle from running 5k is very unlikely...In fact I would have to say impossible. If indeed you have gained 4lbs worth of muscle can you share some of your genetics with me please :) In the grand scheme of things you will put on muscle and lose fat if you maintain a healthy diet and exercise…

Think about taking a 30 year old car that has done very little in those 30 years and then racing round a course of your choice. How would it respond? Would the breaks work, will the engine overheat, will the tyres end up flat? So many things can go wrong. (Please note the numbers and the example were purely by chance) The…

Do you mind giving an indication of your build? Weight / Height / Approx body fat? It is always easier to drop fat and in turn weight if you are already overweight. But once you drop down to single digit body fat the impact of carbs, protein, the timing of meals etc all play a major role in any further development. In fact…

One thing that struck me from the OP was the mention of carbs in the evening. This seems counter intuitive as carbs are much harder to process and in the evening your body is winding down. Why would you eat them in the evening? Was this based on any research? I agree with pretty much everything else said. But carbs in the…

Hi, Unfortunately you cannot force your body to loose size from a particular muscle group. Spot fat removal is not possible, you simply workout, eat at a calories deficit and your body will decide where to loose the fat from. Doing extreme sessions of cardio, we're talking about several hours a day, will lead to…

The machines are only accurate if you enter all your details, weight, height, age into them and hold onto the handles the whole time. Even then, accuracy is not 100% as they measure heart rate not calories burnt, they simply assume that at a certain heart rate for the info you've entered you will burn a certain amount of…

Today I did the elliptical For 35min I got the following HRM - 400 MFP - 421 (if i recall correctly) Machine - approx 600 I found that for every 10min the machine was almost 100 cal out. I can always do another test tomorrow to see if I can replicate these results.

I actually like songs that get me thinking of something else rather than just a beat...most of the songs mentioned are my preferred driving songs. However Travis Barker's "Can the Drummer get Some" album was a good listen. My most listened to workout songs however are: Eminem - Recovery Album Eminem - 8 Mile Soundtrack…

throw in some new cardio dude, the same thing over and over starts to loose effectiveness. If you can get on a bike / arc / elliptical they are much lower impact. Mix up your routine, maybe opt for heavier more intense but lower rep workouts or lighter longer more rep workouts. If you haven't swapped exercises in the past…

Those electric scales are horrible, the readout they give you is based on BMI and activity level. If you change your activity level the BF% will change, best bet is to use callipers and the mirror.

The regulations controlling the supplement industry in the US is not as stringent as the UK as far as I am aware. As a result UK proteins are actually in my opinion (and from my research) much better than US counterparts. I would shop online rather than Holland and Barrett, Argos, Tesco, GNC etc.. you'll get much better…

Would you be able to post a few pictures of the display when in "real life" use? I'm thinking in direct sunlight, when held at an angle so I could get an idea of what the screen looks like? I can't seem to find such pictures online.