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Squat Hip Pain Help
I have pain in my hip when I squat. It's there when I'm near the bottom of my squat. It's only on my left and is localized to aprox. 2" below the point of my pelvis bone. I squat in flat sole shoes similar to chuck taylor's. The pain is there no matter how much weight I'm squatting, Empty bar up to my 5x5 work weight of…
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How much of a setback to expect?
I am trying to gain muscle but picked up a stomach bug and today's diet has been atrocious. Next to no protein or fat. Assuming 2 to 3 days to recover and get back into my routine. What kind of setback should I expext? Should I deload?
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When to increase weight?
I'm doing SL 5x5. The program calls for adding weight for every successful workout for a given movement. I'm at the point where I'll fail once or twice at a weight the be successful. Is there any harm in changing this to being successful twice (or 3 times). This failure then success seems awful taxing.
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My Bulk Progression!
So I'm a Month into my bulk and just thought I'd post a progress report and ask for any input on changes I should make. 28 Year Old Male 6'1" 175lbs Category/Start/Today Weight/173.1/175.2 Squat/125/175 Bench/70/100 Row/90/120 OHP/45/75 Deads/175/215 Pullups/5/13 Dips/8/13 Bicep/11"/11.25" Waist/32.75"/31.5"…
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Are these Goals realistic?
I'm a 28 y.o. male 6'1" 175lbs. Currently eating in a surplus. Doing Strong Lifts 5x5 Current lifts are at this: Squat 180lbs BP 100lbs Row 120lbs OHP 75lbs Deads 225lbs My goals are to get my squat up to 250lbs and my Bench to 175lbs. I would like to be to these numbers by April 2016. at that point cycling season will be…
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Cycling Calories Burned
Ok, I have a question. I get HUGLY differing calorie burns for bike rides. For Example: Sunday I did 40.1 Miles Avg. Pace was 13.8 MPH Moving Time was 2:54:16 Elevation Gain was 1208ft. Strava says I burned 1213 cal(30cal/mile) MFP says 1806 cal(45cal/mile) My Polar M400 with HR strap says 2202 cal(55cal/mile) Multiple…
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Failed rep?
Would you consider this scenario to be a failed rep? Doing a 5x5 program. Say you are on your fourth set. Just finished your third rep and instead of taking a second to re set your self you take 3 or 4 seconds. Then do the left with good form. Would you say that is a failure?
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Stronglifts group?
Is there one? Can't seem to find it.
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Am I ready to bulk?
Start with some stats. Male 28 years old 171lbs 6'1" I started my weight loss journey last June at 250lbs and I've been maintaining ~170lbs since May of this year with 2500 cals/day+eating excersize calories back. I would like to add some muscle mass to my frame. I lost the weight doing cardio(running and boot camp…
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Early morning biking
If you live in a rural area and have not experienced a sun rise on a bicycle seat you are missing out. That's all.
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RAGBRAI
Anyone familiar with this event? It's a annual bike ride across the state of Iowa from west to east(Missouri river to Mississippi river) 400-500 mile, 7 day event. Most days average ~70 miles with lows around 55 miles and highs as much as 85+ miles a day. I'm seriously considering doing this next year(always the 3rd week…
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Possible to squat too low?
When doing squats in an effort to make sure I'm going low enough I go really low. I have noticed lately though that I get a pain in my right hip. It goes away within a day and comes on as soon as I do my first warm up squat with an empty bar. Am I squatting to low? Any tips for knowing you've broken parallel?
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Leg cramps?
I'm doing strong lifts 5x5 and I've noticed that days following lifting that my calfs are crampy in the morning. I get plenty of water a day (atleast 12 cups a day). My diary is open. It has everything logged except water. Any input?
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Stronglifts twice a week?
Any problem with only doing stronglifts twice a week instead of 3? I like to do other things and now that the weight is heavy recovery takes to long if I do something on the rest days.
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TDEE or mfp maintenence calories?
Would you recommend doing TDEE or mfp maintenence calories with excersize calories? My only issue with TDEE is it assumes I'm going to set a strict number of workouts a week. Some weeks I workout 3 times others 6 and everything inbrtween. My concern with mfp and excersize calories is how accurate it is ( I use a hrm for…
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Stronglifts form check please
These vids are of workout b. I'm doing a today and will post those later. Would love some feed back! https://youtu.be/CV5zvb3Kgfo https://youtu.be/RIap0Yx_0sw https://youtu.be/hZveUWWNaAM
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% of fat burn question.
I've got a Polar M400 I use for my workouts and as an activity tracker. when I log a workout(running, cycling, whatever) I get a calorie burn number and a percentage of fat burn number. I'm attempting to lose some belly fat while maintaining my weight or gaining some muscle(I'm doing SL 5x5) so for eating back calories…
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Strongli ft 5x5 favorite lift?
I'm 3 weeks into sl5x5 and was curious what everyone's favorite and least favorite lift is? Me I love squats and deadlift as the weight comes on fast and has been the easiest for me wright and form wise. I absolutely hate overhead press. The weight gat hard almost instantly and keeping good for has proven challenging,…
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Popcorn?
Noticed on the bag of microwave popcorn that unpopped a serving is 2TBS for 120cal. but 1 cup of popped is 25 cal. the bag says it has 2.5 servings unpopped and 4.5 servings of popped, so in the whole bag there is 300 cal unpopped, or 112 cal popped. where did the other 178 cal go? can I really eat the entire bag for 112…
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Weighing ground beef question?
When I brown ground beef for things like taco's, I cook it then drain the fat off, I know the general consensus is to weight raw but what do I do about the fat I drained off? this last time I poured off 150grams of fat from 2lbs of beef. do I subtract the calories from the fat? 9x150?
