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Recommendation for a 4 day Upper/ Lower Split Routine
Time for a new routine and after reading some of the Helms and Shoenfeld data about hitting upper and lower 2x per week each, I'm in the market for a routine. Anybody have on they recommend?
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How to Make Sure Your Whey is Good Quality
An interesting article from rippedbody.com on how to judge the qualiity of protein powders. https://rippedbody.com/protein-powder-scams/
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New Meta Analysis on Max Protein Intake and MPS
Just published from Alan Aragon and Brad Shoenfeld. Relevant to some discussions here lately. https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12970-018-0215-1
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Keto Researchers Alan Aragon et all Part 2
Here is the 2nd in a series of articles on Keto diets and Keto research. Very balanced and objective. http://sci-fit.net/2018/investigation-keto-scientists-companies/
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New Research on BCAAs-Don't waste your money.
New study from The Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition on effectiveness of BCAAs. Short version, don't waste your money. Long version here: https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12970-017-0184-9
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Snacks
Hypothesis: Eating snacks just makes calorie compliance harder for most people. Discuss. ETA: After the very good question about most, I'm going to say a majority of the population. I don't really have a tighter definition in mind but am open to input.
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Multi Point BI Body Comp Testing
I have seen this referred to here on occasion but I don't know much about it. The small warehouse gym I go to (mostly an MMA gym with free weights) offers it for only $10 and I'm scheduled to get it done on Saturday. If I recall correctly, I thought I remember seeing that it is reasonable accurate but not nearly so much as…
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Stronglifts Deload?
I've been doing Stronglifts 2 to 3 times per weeks since early March. Progress has been great but I am hitting a point now where I'm just not recovering as well and experiencing some fatigue. Ironic from the guy that posted in the first few weeks, "is this really it? These weights don't seem very heavy." lol. I'm not…
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My Heavy Lifting Wife/ Progress
Here is a picture of my lovely wife. She began Starting Strength with my help back in mid July. She has always been small at 5'5" and 112 lbs so she didn't have to lose weight like most of us (I know, we hate her!! lol) But, she had little strength or muscle conditioning and little noticable muscle mass. She was at about…
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Potassium? How Much?
In some reading I've been doing recently, it has said that potassium is the nutrient that regulate water retention in the body. In googling I've seen some info that says for an active person, you should be getting 4 to 4.5 grams per day. I'm not even close to that. It also says too much is toxic. Anyone know the dope on…
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Strength Training Benefit for Women, Bigger Boobs?
I began training my lovely wife in a basic Starting Strength routine about a month ago. To fill in a little background, she just turned 53. She was bordering on underweight at 5'5" and 110 lbs with very little muscle mass and was completly untrained. her boobs were not small but kind of deflated, for lack of a better term.…
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Metaboic Weight Training
I'm am currently doing heavy lifting in a 3x5 format, 2 to 3 times a week and some cardio, either running or bike a couple of time a week. In reading one of Lyle McDonald's articles, Weight Training for Fat Loss 1 & 2 he suggests mixing in Metabolic Weight Training as an alternative to cardio for rapid fat burning. Anyone…
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Creatine: Week 3
i'm on my 3rd week supplementing with Creatine and I have a few observations and would welcome input and comment. - I've learned to rest a little more between sets to allow the ATP-PC system to work. 3 minutes. I was resting a minute or less but it was pointed out to me that I wasn't going to get the benefit of Creatine if…
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Accu-Measure Calipers vs Omron
I have both and as I'm getting leaner, the gap between them seems to getting bigger. According to the Accu-Measure calipers, I get a consistent 10 to 11mm. That means 19% according to their chart for men. On the Omron, I get reading from 23.4% to 24.7%. Very inconnsistent. Using the Accu-Measure calipers, I've seen a…
