Taylor Kimmel

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bio	website	twitter.com/tdkimmel88
	location	Michigan
	age	25
visits	member for	8 months
	seen	Jun 14 at 16:34
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Full-Time Computer Programmer, Part-Time MMA Fighter.

Proficient In:

Visual Basic .NET
ASP .NET
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
SQL

	155 reputation	bio	website	twitter.com/tdkimmel88	visits	member for	8 months
7 badges		location	Michigan		seen	Jun 14 at 16:34

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Jun 14	comment	Why am I anxious when I don't work out? I feel you on this, I dread the day or two I take off every week.
Jun 14	comment	How can I get in shape in one month? I can't express how much I love this answer. It gets so old hearing people ask about "get ripped quick" schemes. Everyone today is looking for a shortcut.
Mar 29	comment	Help understanding my weight loss results +1 for the last 2 sentences. If you are lifting while exercising, I would focus more on how you actually look and feel, instead of the weight itself.
Mar 27	comment	Long overtraining - What is the solution and how much time is needed to recover? Sounds nearly identical to my situation, except I probably have a bit more free time since I've finished by Bachelor's Degree. I also workout/lift 6 days a week, as well as MMA training 3-4 days a week. I think if you re-design your workout routine (to be sustainable for 6 days a week), you can get back on track once you've "recovered". I would try more relaxing exercises until then, like swimming and yoga.
Mar 18	awarded	Commentator
Mar 18	comment	Can I drink beer and do gym? +1 for "Just don't be stupid".
Mar 18	comment	Quick body development tricks You want to be in the gym for 4 hours a day, drink beer and gain a good personality quickly? Either this is poor translation, or a joke question.
Mar 14	comment	What is courtesy in a gym? So many people make me angry at the gym with their general lack of awareness and respect for others, yet somehow I think your list addresses everything I have a problem with. Well done.
Dec 7	accepted	Combat sports weight-cut: How to handle the last 4 days?
Nov 13	awarded	Critic
Nov 8	awarded	Scholar
Nov 8	accepted	Looking to maintain (not gain) while working out 6-7 days a week
Nov 6	comment	Combat sports weight-cut: How to handle the last 4 days? Yeah, it didn't sound like a whole lot to me, but apparently Men should drink about 3 liters a day to be hydrated. So, 8 is definitely over-hydrating. I'm going to give that a try the next time I make a major cut (in February as it stands). And I wish I could sleep through it, but a full-time job stands in my way. That would make it much more bearable.
Nov 6	comment	Combat sports weight-cut: How to handle the last 4 days? 5 liters of water is only a bit over a gallon, that doesn't seem like "overloading" your body with water a few days out. I'm really curious if this is a viable tactic or not. The rest of this just backs what I normally do, but I could use a trick or two to make the experience less...not fun.
Nov 1	asked	Combat sports weight-cut: How to handle the last 4 days?
Nov 1	comment	Looking to maintain (not gain) while working out 6-7 days a week About a year and a half. There's a few weeks during the holidays, right after hard fights or I get tattoos where I have to slack a bit, obviously.
Nov 1	comment	Looking to maintain (not gain) while working out 6-7 days a week Yeah, that's the key: I have to stay around the same weight. And I have martial arts stuff 3-4 days a week, but I like to workout 6 days a week. When I workout I can listen to music full-blast and just zone out. Martial Arts I have to concentrate and learn new things, they are different activities mentally for me. I'll try probably 3 x 5 or 4 x 4 for a while and see how it affects me. I'm just glad no one has said "You're overworking yourself, you are doing more hard than good, you have to cut back". That's what I was mostly checking on.
Oct 31	comment	Looking to maintain (not gain) while working out 6-7 days a week Yeah, I more just do the elliptical work to shred calories and listen to music. I'm interested in mixing in some slow burn lifts, but do you think with how often I workout it might be a bit too much? The link you provided suggested only doing those once a week.
Oct 31	comment	Looking to maintain (not gain) while working out 6-7 days a week That link you provide in the first paragraph with the charts is rather interesting. I've always been under the impression that doing exercises 4 x 4 (4 sets of 4 reps) is the recipe for getting big, but that information claims the opposite. I started lifting like 3 years ago, and have went from 130 lbs to 150ish. Granted, I was very scrawny. My gains have peaked out for a year now, so I'll definitely try less reps with more weight. As long as I keep cardio involved in my workouts, I hopefully won't put on mass. And I can't restrict lifting to 3 days a week, I'd honestly go insane.
Oct 31	comment	Looking to maintain (not gain) while working out 6-7 days a week I was under the impression, ever since I've been lifting, that less reps with higher weight = bigger size. More reps with a lower weight = more endurance. Also, I do three lifts for each group. So like Biceps I sometimes do: Single Arm Curls, Hammer Curls then Uppercuts with the Cables. If I only did one exercise, I would A) get bored, and B) bet out of the gym in 30 minutes. I like to be there for a while.