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What is the optimum training intensity to prevent atrophy when on a caloric deficite?
I know that when I'm on a caloric surplus, I stimulate hypertrophy best if my training intensity lies somewhere between 6-12RM.
Now let's say I'm on a caloric deficite. What intensity is optimal for ...
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Should I do more reps or take more rest?
Many programs that I've come across (e.g. 100 push up challenge, 7 weeks to 50 pull-ups, etc.) prescribe a minimum rest time between sets and mention that you can take longer breaks if necessary, but ...
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Do seniors(age 60+) need to be treated differently in training?
Apart from the obvious fact of lessened degree of training intensity, do seniors bodies respond differently to training stimuli? Besides increased risk of injury, is there a reason for a senior couch ...
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Creating a swimming workout schedule
I'm looking to create myself a good swimming workout schedule and need some advice. What is the best schedule to get optimum results? How often should one have rest days? I'm currently looking at ...
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Training Program to become stronger alpine Skier?
I'd like to hear from someone who is more of an advanced downhill skier, like someone who has competed in slalom or mogul events, or is a veteran back-country skier.
Is there a template program you ...
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Cardio: Longer Workout with Lower Heartrate or Shorter Workout with Higher Heartrate?
I have an exercise regimen for muscle building which works fairly well. However, my cardio is not exactly the best and I'd like to burn as many calories as possible with my time alotted.
I have a ...
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Reason for some variations in doing crunches or other ab exercises
In fitness classes I have often seen that crunches were done in a specific pattern, for example:
10 normal crunches
10 crunches in 2 steps (i.e. up hold 1 count, up hold 1 count, down, down)
10 mini ...
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How can I correctly log the calorie burn of circuit routines?
I use both Fitocracy and The Daily Burn to track my exercise. I find that one limitation both of them have is that, when I do something like a bodyweight circuit routine, I'm able to record the ...
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What's the benefit of a long tendon and short muscle belly in the forearm?
In bodybuilding the benefits of long muscle bellies are fairly self evident, just look at Ronnie Coleman's out of place biceps and compare them to Sergio Oliva. For any sport requiring strength there ...
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Calves hurt in the front (the tibialis anterior muscle) from walking fast?
I often brisk walk for rapid reaching of destination, and my legs aren't in bad shape; I have always been a walker, do calf exercises, but the front part of the calf (as mentioned in title). Why would ...
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What to do if you have backpain due to many hours of sitting although going to the gym between those hours?
What to do if you have backpain due to many hours of sitting although going to the gym between those hours?
I mean that are there any good (rather finnish if possible) sites on computer ergonomics? I ...
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Integrating Front lever into training plan - which muscles are used?
I'm currently doing a typical push-pull workout in the gym, mostly with basic exercises (bench press, squat, dead lift, weighted pullup, ...) and low reps. Now I would like to integrate the front ...
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Building strength with Spondylosis (L5-S1 degeneration)
I realize YANMD but I've been frustrated with my lack of progress. About two years ago I was finally struggling enough with my back pain (difficulty standing for long periods, pain when lying flat, ...
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getting bigger arms by doing just bicep / tricep exercises
I try to find time for 45 - 60 minutes, 2 - 3 times a week for resistance training, where I follow a circuit-training routine. Sometimes, I don't manage, but would manage to squeeze a short one of ...
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Yoga and Strength training
I have been working out for the past 6 months and realised that I need to incorporate a change in my workout routine to avoid boredom creeping in. I started alternating between yoga and strength from ...
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How can power tracking tools such as MyoTest or Tendo Unit help my weight training?
I'm investigating tools that can be used to analyze weight training performance. Let's say I'm doing a squat. Besides my gut feeling, how can I know how well I'm lifting? How much force am I applying? ...
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How to train muscle which goes from buttocks to the waist?
This year I have returned to alpine skiing and found myself relatively fit for quite intensive skiing session (up to 10 runs per hour for 3-4 hours straight twice a day for 5 days) except for two ...
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Few Body Building Questions and Recommended Books Request
I have been training to build muscle for 2 years. I had a lot of mistakes along the way.
I gained notable muscle and learnt a lot of new important things about body building over the last two years.
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How do you properly 'focus' on one or two muscle groups?
I have a couple of muscle groups that I consider to be 'falling behind', or that I simply want to get bigger as quickly as possible regardless of sacrifices I have to make to training other areas.
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Gym time after lunch
Normally, when I wake up I don't have any hunger. I eat directly at 12:30 sharp due to work hours so I can go to the gym in afternoon? My question is: how much time should I wait for before I ...
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Firstbeat Energy Expenditure Algorithm
I am looking for an implementation (or a document that describes the actual algorithm) for the energy expenditure/VO2/EPOC calculation from the heart rate variability.
A few white papers about
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Why am I falling back when I am squatting?
I started doing squats a couple of weeks ago, and I'm having trouble maintaining balance near the bottom of my squat (when I'm trying to go below parallel). Let me describe the situation.
Squat ...
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Running: How much should I speed train (% of total mileage)
How much should one speed train, in relation to my total mileage? Some resources (this one for instance) say that the amount of interval training should not exceed 7-15% of your total mileage. My ...
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Bouldering Routines for Lunch Breaks
Could anyone suggest some good Bouldering specific routines (flexibility/strength/endurance training) that can be done without any equipment during a lunch break (30 mins). I Climb about a V5 and have ...
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How to integrate box squat to my weekly leg workout
I'm usually free squatting (8x) and leg pressing (4x)
For a change, and also to see whether I can improve 1-my hip flexors and 2- the bottom part of my squat, I want to include 4x box squatting, ...
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Using a stepper once in a while
When visiting my parents I have access to their stepper.I only visit them every now and then - lets assume once a month I can use the stepper.
I don't have a specific goal, I normally ride bike and ...
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Protein supplementation when doing conditioning on caloric deficit
BACKGROUND
For about four months now I have been on a low carb diet, and during that time I went from 93 to 78kg. I have been lifting some weights (some squats, overhead pushes, bent over rows) at a ...
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Body Fat Caliper - How to Calculate
One of the trainers in my local gym did my measurements with a fat caliper.....he unfortunately has not had time to calculate the fat %.
I have the numbers and figured might as well do it myself but ...
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increasing muscle size / mass and protein intake
I have a mild chronic kidney disease, through which I have an elevated creatinine level and decreased kidney function. Due to this, I cannot take good amounts of protein, and need to follow a ...
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What could be a training for a just Saturdays and Sundays?
I don't have much time to do my trainings, I just do my long run on Sundays mornings, but I would like training on Saturdays too, but maybe the training of Saturday could affect my long run of ...
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What should I be looking for in bio monitors?
I recently got an android phone and with the power of technology I hope that added data on how my body is reacting to exercise may give me insights into what my fitness regimen may be missing. What ...
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Cable Squats vs Smith Machine Squats
Are cable machine squats easier to do than squats on a Smith machine? I'm able to do about 220 pounds on the cables, but I'm doubtful whether I'll be able to replicate the results on a Smith machine. ...
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Any advice for improving my diet chart?
I am 30 years old woman and weigh 53 kgs.My height is 5 feet 2 inches (1.57 m). I have been working out for 5 years now with 1 year gap in between when I gave birth to my girl in 2011 December. I have ...
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Any scientific info about effects of air pollution during exercise?
In my city, some advocacy groups are raising awareness about the dangers of vehicle exhaust nearby parks and other places where people exercise.
However, we couldn't get to "the heart" of the body of ...
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Alternating exercises from workout to workout?
For my strength/hypertrophy based training program, I've chosen following exercises:
Deadlifts (2 work sets of 4 reps)
Press (3 work sets of 5)
Ring Dips (3 work sets of 9)
1-Legged Squats (3 work ...
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Isometric deadlifts instead of barbell deadlifts
Would an isometric deadlift be a good substitute for a normal, barbell deadlift?
I know that's difficult to engage as many muscles in the same way as barbell deadlifts. (I read Are there any ...
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One arm chin/pull-up and the lat pulldown machine
I'm currently encountering a weird discrepancy between the force I can genrate to lift my body with one arm and the amount of weight I can pull down with one arm at the lat machine, using a one hand ...
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Does anyone know what causes muscles to shake uncontrolably while under stress?
My question is related to the following, I think:
Why is my body shaking during certain exercises?
But I would like to know how this works on muscle/biology level. The best thing I can imagine, ...
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My ribs are aching after a pushup. What's wrong?
This is not the first time i'm doing a push-up but i think this is probably the first time i'm doing it well hence the pain on my right rib. I want to know if this is normal and if it is, should i ...
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Caloric benefit to working out in hotter temperatures?
I have noticed a difference in my workouts when the only factor I change is the temperature of the room in which I workout.
I am aware that there are risks and benefits to exercising in hotter ...
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What is the best way to improve speed with the Total Immersion stroke?
I've found excellent results with endurance, per se, with the TI stroke, but as I've seen great gains there, my speed had remained relatively constant.
What is best to focus on to turn on the jets ...
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Are there papers about Starting Strength or Strong lifts?
I read a bit abut these programs, I see some results in forums and in internet in general, but any reasonably good method and proper nutrition can get results.
I would like to know if:
Are there ...
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On smaller in between workout activies and the interpretation of resting phases
I have a three days a week workout plan (weight lifting Mo,We,Fr, basically an arms/torso, shoulder, back split respecively, for an hour or more) and I do cardio in between (depending on the time of ...
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Almost Olympic bar — collars don't fit
I obtained an almost Olympic sized bar -- all my plates fit on but none of my collars do (I have the spring kind). Where or how can I get collars to fit it?
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nutritional value of Common Sea-buckthorn
Where can I find more scientific information about the nutritional value of Common Sea-buckthorn ?
I once observed that its juice cured my muscle-soredness quickly, or at least helped in increasing ...
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Natural Running - less injuries or not
In context of running, one of the most discussed subjects over the last many years probably have been whether "Natural Running" will prevent injuries or actually be the source of injuries.
I have ...
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How do I prevent the scraping that occurs when I rotate my leg about my hip?
I recently started taking parkour lessons and after a full day of vaulting and jumping around, the area around my hip flexor (or possible the hip flexor itself, I'm not a doctor) hurts. For some ...
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Optimum amount of aerobic exercise to induce Angiogenesis for bodybuilding purposes?
So I have always noticed that my endurance-oriented friends have always been more vascular than me at similar bodyfat levels. I stumbled upon the term, Angiogenesis, in another post on this site so I ...
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Aerobic exercise: Any updates or comments to the Cooper method?
I read a book published in the 80s (by Kenneth Cooper, MD), Aerobics, in which Dr. Cooper suggests a way of getting fit without risking one's cardiovascular health. He devised a point system of ...
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Exercising before going out and drinking alcohol
I've been having a debate with a few friends. We are trying to understand better how exercise and metabolism react with alcohol.
I think if you have been exercising a few days before going out ...
