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As somebody mentioned, it is not the exercise that causes the lower back pain; however it can cause more stress on it further especially if you have had a lower back and weak hamstrings to begin with. When the stiff-legged deadlift is used correctly, it can help benefit your lower back and hamstrings by effectively targeting them and growing them stronger in ...
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If you want to gain weight, then you can, but you can't do it halfway.
I was skinny all of my life, averaging 6 foot four and 170 pounds. About a year and a half ago, I went on Mark Rippetoe's plan (minus the gallon of milk a day).
Within nine months, I was deadlifting 300 from practically nothing, and benching 225.
My weight went from 170 to 205.
Two ...
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You need to know that BMI is a poor indicator if you are not middle aged with a sedentary lifestyle.
BMI was developed as a tool to look at averages across a large population not as an individual assessment tool. Although, due its popularity has become a defacto tool used by many to do this, when it wasn't designed that way.
You have two options, you can ...
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It's possible and effective, but I would recommend going for the strength using compound movements first and the more specific hypertrophy second. The primary reason for this is fatigue management. The fatigue induced by a heavy set affects the longer lighter sets less than the other way around.
Wendler 5/3/1 program is built around this approach. The ...
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