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In order of increasing accuracy: Hand-held monitor < Calipers < DEXA scan < Total body immersion < Waiting until you die and then setting you on fire to work it out! What's important in body fat measuring is the trend in the measurements. So if your monitor says 22% one week, then in a couple of weeks it's 18%, then 17%;…
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Weightlifting is great for fat loss! Lifting heavy weights is a lot of work, so you burn a lot of calories this way, although it's more difficult to quantify than the amount burned doing cardio. You also burn calories in repairing and building new muscle, so the fat loss continues on rest days too. If you are overweight…
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Bacon is delicious, and peanut butter sticks to the roof of your mouth. I'm not sure why the 16g of fat in the bacon serving is any worse than the 16g of fat in the peanut butter serving?
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Fruit sugar isn't any different to sugar from any other source, once your body breaks it down. Fruit is a healthier option because it contains lots of vitamins and other good stuff. It is also a lot less energy dense than sugary junk food, so you will be full well before you can eat a candy bar's worth of sugar in the form…
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_rich_ over on Fitocracy. Ambut, I'm guessing DIEL? means do I even lift. *checks* Yeas, you do! Nice deadlift numbers!
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Barbell bench press and overhead press will certainly help with this. I would focus on compound lifts that will help you tone up all over if you are fairly new to exercise, rather than just doing isoloation exercises like overhead extensions. No reason not to do them in addition though if you want to.
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Probably not. You're not going to be used to the extra weight on your wrists and for kicking and punching the extra weight could cause you to injure yourself. There have been video studies of martial artists using wrist and ankle weights, if anything they get a poorer workout as they tend to punch or kick slower, being…
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This looks like a pretty good routine, similar to Stronglifts or Starting Strength in a lot of ways. I like how you aren't vain enough to plaster the internet with banner ads about your "method" though!
