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Fitness |OT8| Dad Bods, Bulge Swelfies, and Wait...Do you even lift bro?
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Congrats dude!
BruceLeeRoy
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Lordy thats terrifying.
Growing up with two sisters if I had kids my heart would want girls but my mind would know to pray for boys.
Yeah close parallel grip and wide are all variations I have seen on a T-Bar setup.
Psychotext
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Looks like those free quest bars must have been popular. All gone for now.
Thanks for the tips guys. I would front squat but my flexibility is low (I'm working on it!) and find it difficult to squat while holding a bar in front, always end up leaning forward too much.
Jacksinthe
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Grats on feeling old! I'm with you! Also happy birthday to your daughter!
Grats to Cooterina!
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Totally saves my lower back on similar workouts.
Foam roller
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Totally saves my lower back on similar workouts.
entremet
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mdsfx
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Just indoor with the resistance set so that my heart rate is around 155-160 while my rpm matches my running cadence.
Tryna get that bubble butt, Mikey?
mdsfx
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If I kept count of how often my wife has been slapping my hindquarters lately...yeesh. It's definitely seen growth lol
Psychotext
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Grr, this moving house shit isn't working out for me yet. I'm struggling to find anything of a decent weight to lift right now... need to start moving my washing machine and the like, but they come last. =/
Mine too man, lol. Feels good.
mdsfx
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Don't be so modest, Bish lol
Dead Prince
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how does one take a phone in the sauna without it sweating. like i walk by after pee and see them on the phone.
Dead Prince
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have they improved the taste of rice cakes since 20 years ago.
Psychotext
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The idea of someone choosing to eat rice cakes on a refeed day is a new one on me. It's usually wafer thin women eating them and feeling bad because they chose to have two cups of water with it instead of just one.
You keep eating rice cakes on your refeed day tator. I'll stick to pizza and ice cream!
mdsfx
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Excellent. Me too!
God Dayumm
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Those rice cakes have only 60 calories each. I would cut with those
Hands of Stone
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Scooped up white chocolate and pb
BruceLeeRoy
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Bro what? That is a depressing Refeed.
This is what a good refeed looks like:
Guinness Honey Beer Bread
The GOAT
Ha sorry Bum I missed this. I had some holiday nog too early one day and went out to shovel our sidewalk and driveway but I started at the corner of our sidewalk and I meant to shovel out the sidewalk and then turn right into my driveway but I went down one extra house on the sidewalk and shoveled my neighbors complete driveway and was just about to do his walkway up to the front door before I realized my inebriated blunder. Thankfully he came out right about then and I got the bonus of him believing I am the greatest neighbor of all time. Best part is I didn't even shovel our driveway at that point. Yes I am aware that only me and people on a cocktail of Acid, Meth and chili dogs have had this same experience.
Well, if anyone liked MTP, it's over. This post probably made him violently pass out and smash his head into the ground.
Sutton Dagger
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Can someone explain the idea behind a refeed day and when it should be used? Is it only during a bulk or a cut phase? How many more calories over maintenance should you go? Cheers
This is the least evidence based way but I only do them when I just feel weak all over and extremely hungry. I tend to grab a big Chinese takeout or eat an entire dominos pizza or something...so I guess 1500-2000 over my calories? I don't do it often.
Hands of Stone
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There it is. Rice cakes are z tier
Psychotext
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I only use them when cutting, and I go big. At least 3k calories over what I'm cutting with.
I don't use them for diet adherence though (no problems there, I was in deficit for more than a year once), I use them because they massively speed up the rate at which I lose fat.
I don't use them for diet adherence though (no problems there, I was in deficit for more than a year once), I use them because they massively speed up the rate at which I lose fat.
Sutton Dagger
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Thanks guys. I'd be very interested in reading the mechanism behind why a refeed/cheat day helps with continuing to lose body fat.
HHAHAHAHHA
Arrowgigantic
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I don't want to say that this guy is geared up, but he has to be....
Dead Prince
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I don't want to say that this guy is geared up, but he has to be....
has R2D2 always looked like a penis
Last week I failed on ohp with only 2x170 instead of 5x170. I hit every rep on every other lift, so I was pretty upset about it. I went back today even tho I didn't get much sleep, and almost got it, it was good enough for me while cutting and mid move. Ohp with 5x130, 5x150 and 4x170, almost got all 5 but form was suffering. Racked it, waited 20 seconds and hit one more. Ended it with 10x130.
Feel a lot better then I did last week. Resting up till next week. Moving back into apartment this Saturday, going to be till Monday till I'm back to normal at least.
Feel a lot better then I did last week. Resting up till next week. Moving back into apartment this Saturday, going to be till Monday till I'm back to normal at least.
Jacksinthe
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You just wait until he extends his 5th appendage hidden behind one of them slots.I don't want to say that this guy is geared up, but he has to be....
Psychotext
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There's a ton of arguing in the internet about it, but these two make for interesting reads:
http://www.leangains.com/2010/11/cheat-day-strategies-for-hedonist.html
https://www.t-nation.com/diet-fat-loss/in-defense-of-cheat-days
Arguably it's exactly when you should go high carb. Depends on what your definition of a cheat day is. For some it's "ooh, I had a pack of chips, I'm terrible", for others it's "GIVE ME ALL YOUR FOOD, AND DON'T STOP BRINGING IT TIL I PASS OUT".
I subscribe to the Cooter Protocol, which is somewhere towards the middle to top end of that scale. I'm neither here nor there on the actual science of it, but for me, it's the only thing that gets me to low body fat levels in a reasonable amount of time.
Oh, I go high carb as fuuuuuck. Just ends up not being sweet stuff.
Yes sir that would be my definition.
bah I am so jelous of you guys and your awesome refeeds
the food porn in this page has like a gazillion grams of sodium I have to be careful with.
seriously, the CDC says noone should have more than 2.4 grams of sodium A DAY...
one pizza, not the one with the worst stuff (bacon, pork, etc), has like 5-6 grams of sodium. that's just the pizza... you guys know what that means? you guys probably land in the 15 gram area on a refeed day. Maybe more.
Now that I've been paying attention to sodium in foods, I realize how mindblowingly ridiculous is it how much more we get than we need or should and it's by far the hardest thing to avoid in food. Sugars or fat? easy detectable, you can even see it and taste it. But there's lots of "healthy stuff" that gets everything right but have 1 gram of sodium per portion, Frozen veggies? Sodium galore. that healthy fish you thought was great and "clean"? forget it.
the world keeps spinning, though and people aren't suddenly dying due to sodium overload, so I have to question whether 2.4 grams is a bit extremist. Wouldn't be surprising considering CDC is extremely cautious.
the food porn in this page has like a gazillion grams of sodium I have to be careful with.
seriously, the CDC says noone should have more than 2.4 grams of sodium A DAY...
one pizza, not the one with the worst stuff (bacon, pork, etc), has like 5-6 grams of sodium. that's just the pizza... you guys know what that means? you guys probably land in the 15 gram area on a refeed day. Maybe more.
Now that I've been paying attention to sodium in foods, I realize how mindblowingly ridiculous is it how much more we get than we need or should and it's by far the hardest thing to avoid in food. Sugars or fat? easy detectable, you can even see it and taste it. But there's lots of "healthy stuff" that gets everything right but have 1 gram of sodium per portion, Frozen veggies? Sodium galore. that healthy fish you thought was great and "clean"? forget it.
the world keeps spinning, though and people aren't suddenly dying due to sodium overload, so I have to question whether 2.4 grams is a bit extremist. Wouldn't be surprising considering CDC is extremely cautious.
FallingEdge
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I don't pay attention to sodium. My levels are just fine so I eat what I want.
Psychotext
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I only watch sodium if I'm trying to cut for a specific date. I don't go batshit with it otherwise (I've never really felt the need to add loads of salt to stuff), but I wont avoid salty food either (regularly eat salted popcorn).
...and uhhh, my frozen veg has pretty much zero sodium in it. I can only assume you're buying stuff that's been altered with butter etc added for flavour. Same goes for my fish (what little of it I eat).
Edit - 5-6g of sodium in a pizza sounds incredibly high too. Salt, sure, but not sodium. I just checked one of mine, and a 1,000 calorie serving has 900mg of sodium in it. Are you sure you're not mistaking the two? You can convert the values here: http://www.traditionaloven.com/culi...convert-gram-g-to-sodium-na-milligram-mg.html
...and uhhh, my frozen veg has pretty much zero sodium in it. I can only assume you're buying stuff that's been altered with butter etc added for flavour. Same goes for my fish (what little of it I eat).
Edit - 5-6g of sodium in a pizza sounds incredibly high too. Salt, sure, but not sodium. I just checked one of mine, and a 1,000 calorie serving has 900mg of sodium in it. Are you sure you're not mistaking the two? You can convert the values here: http://www.traditionaloven.com/culi...convert-gram-g-to-sodium-na-milligram-mg.html
mdsfx
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I add a little salt to my eggs in the morning. That's about it. Very little until dinner.
Honestly though, I don't care. You know what can kill you? Too little sodium. My high school gym teacher's heart stopped at the finish line of the Chicago Marathon due in part to low sodium levels.
Honestly though, I don't care. You know what can kill you? Too little sodium. My high school gym teacher's heart stopped at the finish line of the Chicago Marathon due in part to low sodium levels.
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