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intermediate lifter starting SL. question?
I've just came back to this group after being away for couple years. I've been lifting consistently mainly doing the big lifts squats, deads, and bench along with a few auxiliary stuff such as pull ups, dips etc. My question is where should I start this routine weight wise? My dead lift and squat are over 300# and my bench…
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intermediate lifter starting SL. question?
I've just came back to this group after being away for couple years. I've been lifting consistently mainly doing the big lifts squats, deads, and bench along with a few auxiliary stuff such as pull ups, dips etc. My question is where should I start this routine weight wise? My dead lift and squat are over 300# and my bench…
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Antibiotics cause gain?
I asked this in another forum and didn't get much attention, so maybe this forum is better for this type of question? Anyways I'm just wandering if anyone know's if these can cause weight gain while on them? I'm sure they don't cause fat gain, but can they cause water retention, which translates to increases on the scale?…
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new to crossfit and have a diet question
I just finished my 2nd week of the beginner classes. I have seen alot of improvement since I started. My main goal is to lose weight at this time. Anyways my coach recommended me to try the paleo diet. Well the last couple of days I did a strict diet of meat, vegis and nuts while drinking lots of water. Today after 2 days…
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This really works, broke my plateau!
Hello, so I just started really doing this diet last week and i'm really happy so far with the results. Just a little about me, I have been on a mission to lose 78 lbs since new years. I don't care how long it takes I will do it. My starting weight was 278 and that was my heaviest ever. My goal weight is 200lb. I am 6ft…
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question about selling tactics
Recently I sat through a short presentation by a distributor of this product. I had never heard of it before. Anyways I wanted to ask is it common to claim using this shake magically causes muscle gain over very short time periods? Basically what the guy selling it said was he gained 5lbs of muscle just by using this shake…
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Hello, new to this group
Hi, I have been reading up on most of the info from this group and I beleive it is time for me to do this. Just alittle about myself. I have been actively trying to better myself on MFP since January. My start weight and heaviest weight ever was 278. I am currently hovering around 245 as I have been in a off and on plateau…
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bodymedia fit-please post your resting calories
So i've had mine for one week now. i was reading another post where one guy said his low burn is 2.4cal/min and this got me thinking what is a usual resting calories burn with this device. I'm pretty big guy (6foot 250) and my low is 1.4cal/min. But my normal range when sitting down and doing nothing is 1.5-1.9 cal/min. Id…
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Antibiotics cause gain?
I'm just wandering if anyone know's if these can cause weight gain while on them? I'm sure they don't cause fat gain, but can they cause water retention, which translates to increases on the scale? I'm taking 2 of them since saturday and i've steadily went up a little everyday since then. I'm up about 3lbs compared to my…
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Any hrm's able to monitor your whole days calories expenditu
I've asked this in other open hrm threads but havn't gotten an answer yet. I am looking at purchasing a polar but not quite sure of which model to get yet(ft4/ft7/ft60 are looking good). Do any of them do this? I think it would be cool to be able to leave it on all day and see how many calories you burned total. Pretty…
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Calories in steamed calrose rice?
Well I had 1 cup of steamed california calrose rice today. Well the bag says 1/4 cup =155 calories, so I was surprised that 1 cup would be over 600 calories. Then I realized the info on the bag was for uncooked which is alot more rice then I had. Anyways Ive tried to search on the net for the exact calories for this rice…
