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What with all the Dairy Hate?
So where ever I seem to read, everybody seems to be saying eliminate dairy, dairy's no good for you, switch to soy milk or skim milk or something else, etc. Even just as recently, that Tony Horton chatroom rant he was saying "no dairy" switch to almond milk and I'm just like where does all this anti-dairy talk come from?…
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Succinct breakdown of how to Cut or Bulk
This is a pretty nice outline of how to either cut fat or put on muscle. Pretty straight and to the point: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=401681611#post401681611
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What would be your perfect Scientific study regarding diet a
Okay, so there's allot of studies that are done that prove/disprove some supplement, extreme deficits in calories, etc. There was recent anecdotal one where that professor lost weight while eating just twinkies and junk food. The purpose of this post is to allow you to suggest what study you'd like to see done. For…
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What's a good rate of weight gain for muscle gain
I started overweight, cut back on the calories, did more cardio and some weight training and ultimately hit my goal weight about 25 pounds lighter than I started. I brought my body fat from roughly 22% down to about 13.5% (at least according to the impedance body fat monitor), this was all in about a 6 month period.…
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Today I joined the darkside...
...And became one of those obnoxious people who talk on their cell phones while doing cardio at the gym. After a decade of gym membership and 8 months of consistent weekly gym attendance (as of late), I swallowed my dignity and joined the masses of disrespectful punks who refuse to end their conversation just because they…
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How important are carbs when building lean muscle mass?
This thread isn't so much about losing weight, as it is about gaining lean body mass (muscle). It's pretty much accepted that muscle mass cannot be put on while eating at a caloric deficit below maintenance. I'd like to know why... If a person has about 10 lbs of fat that he'd like to lose, and at the same time he's like…
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Weight Lifting: Recovery time improving, but, getting weaker
For the last 4 weeks I've stopped cutting calories and started focussing on (re)building muscle. With that in mind, I'm not so interested in any of these circuit training routines that are so in style, and after a short period of not wanting to spend too much time looking for a program or getting my head full of…
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Reached my weight goal but not body composition
Hi guys and gals, So after about 5 months of really focusing I managed to reach the weight-loss goal I was looking for, went from a 5'7" - 172 lb overweight down to 148 lbs by doing allot of jogging, some weight-lifting, but primarily through watching the calories, cutting out the sugary stuff (pepsi, cookies, ice cream)…
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Body Building Grandma Runs Marathons at 73
Check out this link: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/mess-ernestine-shepherd-body-building-grandma-benches-150/story?id=10480184 Body Building Grandma Ernestine Shepherd Bench Presses, Runs Marathons At 73 Grandmother Up Every Day at 3 a.m. and Says 'I Feel Better Than I Did at 40' What's so amazing about it was she just…
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How long after exercise should we stop tracking calories on
When I work out I use a hrm that has a "chrono" feature that tracks the heart rate during your exercise period and when you stop it you can go to "review" mode and it will give you info and calc your total calorie burn during that session. I usually keep it tracking my heart rate for at least a half hour after I've…
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Not sore after lifting - Does that mean I'm not lifting enou
When I first started lifting my muscles would be sore the next couple days and I'd give it 3-4 days before returning to lifting with that muscle group. The next time I'll try to gradually increase the weight by 12-15 lbs or so on at least one of my sets (I'm usually doing 3-4 sets of each exercise). After being at it a few…
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Is my HRM lying?
So I got this new HRM, the Timex T5H881 Zone Trainer Digital Heart Rate Monitor, set it up, put in the info, etc (It asks for your weight and max heart rate, never asks for your sex or height) and it calculates the calories burned. Anyways, I'm on the elliptical for about 70 minutes, the elliptical says I burned 600…
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Is there a Diff between exercise every day vs every other da
I initially set my exercise goals for 60 minutes a day of cardio or whatever and I'm finding that I end up doing more like 120 minutes every other day. The difference being either because of being busy or my legs being sore and wanting to give them some time to recover. It balances out by the end of the week by averaging…
