For BG fitness fanatics, a question..

[Cream Soda]

I have the same issue. There is about an inch diff between where my left and right shoulder start. Makes for an uneven bench press since when both arms are locked, one has further reach than the other. Even moving to dumbbells as a primary movement (didn't do barbell bench for over a year) there's still a clear diff in my pecs. That said I stopped giving a shit and now do both movements

[richardd]

Was having a discussion with my roommate about something that REALLY annoys me after the gym this morning:

When you are asked or talk about how much you bench / lift / whatever how do you respond?

For me, the only true response is the weight you can do 8-10 reps of your final set with.

Others seem to respond with what they can do with 1 rep, fresh, with a good spot. "I bench 380 bro"

I think the latter is fucking stupid, because in my opinion the response to that 99% of the time is just "No you fucking don't, go home". The latter response actually really annoys me, and I wanted to hear your opinions on it.

From my point of view, I bench full reps at like 140-160 (including bar) and I'm okay with that. I'd rather keep myself grounded and really appreciate my progress over some fairy tale.

people who ask that question have a horrible 1st impression with me lol. it shows me where their mindset is and sometimes even their work ethic.

im never concerned with other people's weights but my own. there are some people lb for lb who are strong like freaking ants, but im more than happy benching my weasely little 225 on my incline when stimulating hypertrophy


but..... when i go to a real underground gym, i am intimidated when people ask me that. if the bar is not bending, im a weak little punk lol.

[Orden]

I have the same issue. There is about an inch diff between where my left and right shoulder start. Makes for an uneven bench press since when both arms are locked, one has further reach than the other. Even moving to dumbbells as a primary movement (didn't do barbell bench for over a year) there's still a clear diff in my pecs. That said I stopped giving a shit and now do both movements

Yeah. I'm just gonna stop giving a shit.

[Orden]

Okay BG, so I've been lifting with a passion since I got my nutrition in check. My macros are good (150+grams of protein a day, probably closer to 200-260 if I have time to eat) but I'm not getting enough calories. What do you guys eat to fill out your energy balance? I need ~3300 calories and on a good day I'm getting ~2200+-400 if I had the chance to eat some bread or fruit that day.

[Cream Soda]

Calorie dense foods, such as peanutbutter, milk, etc. If you're getting your macros, you can fill in the blanks, just do it intelligently (aka eating out of a tub of peanutbutter is gonna be better than a 1k cal bag of lemonheads that I can put down in 10 mins)

[AidenCarby]

Was having a discussion with my roommate about something that REALLY annoys me after the gym this morning:

When you are asked or talk about how much you bench / lift / whatever how do you respond?

For me, the only true response is the weight you can do 8-10 reps of your final set with.

Others seem to respond with what they can do with 1 rep, fresh, with a good spot. "I bench 380 bro"

I think the latter is fucking stupid, because in my opinion the response to that 99% of the time is just "No you fucking don't, go home". The latter response actually really annoys me, and I wanted to hear your opinions on it.

From my point of view, I bench full reps at like 140-160 (including bar) and I'm okay with that. I'd rather keep myself grounded and really appreciate my progress over some fairy tale.

Bench press retards are the funniest imo.

[Orden]

Thanks

[Wulfgang]

I just avoid the whole conversation. Crossfit works pretty well for that as it's a whole lot of unconventional (unconventional in that it's not bench / curls / tri pull downs and fin) movements. Everyone has a pretty good dose of humility. My backsquat max? Yeah it's solid. My overhead squat? So embarassing haha.

[Moss]

Okay BG, so I've been lifting with a passion since I got my nutrition in check. My macros are good (150+grams of protein a day, probably closer to 200-260 if I have time to eat) but I'm not getting enough calories. What do you guys eat to fill out your energy balance? I need ~3300 calories and on a good day I'm getting ~2200+-400 if I had the chance to eat some bread or fruit that day.

I bring a big bag of peanuts with walnuts and chocolate chips mixed in to work every day. The calories add up quick.

[Meresgi]

http://www.aworkoutroutine.com/steroids-vs-natural/

Taking steroids and NOT exercising is a lot more effective then exercising naturally apparently.

Group 1 (no exercise, natural) experienced no significant changes. No surprise there.
Group 2 (no exercise, drug use) was able to build about 7 pounds of muscle. That’s not a typo. The group receiving testosterone injections and NOT working out at all gained 7 pounds of muscle.
Group 3 (exercise, natural) was able to build about 4 pounds of muscle.
Group 4 (exercise, drug use) was able to build about 13 pounds of muscle.

[Buffy]

Does anyone have a website/formula they trust for saying how many calories they should be burning a day?

Here is what I mean. I'm currently 255, have lost about 30 pounds. I'm only 5'8", so I'm still obese by any metric. My work life is sedentary, and my home life is sedentary. All of my physical activity for a day happens ONLY in the time I spend working out.

My target weight is 180 pounds at the moment (which would mean that at one point I was 100 pounds overweight - what the hell), I have a very stocky body type, so I have no idea if that is realistic or not, I just remember being 200 when I graduated high school and I was overweight then. I'm currently 36 years old.

This website: http://www.calorieking.com/interacti...es-calculator/ says that my lifestyle combined with my age combined with my target weight is 2,000 calories a day.

How accurate are these? Can a metabolism be worse than what they account for? Should I be adding how much I exercise to that calories a day total? Like if I do an hour of cardio and the machine says I burned 700 calories, can I trust that? And lets say I do 12 exercises, 4 sets of 12 each....how do I know how many calories that accounts for?

Guess I'm just confused.....lots of new info...I'm trying to change my diet, exercise for the first time since playing sports in high school...I don't know well...really anything.

[Orden]

Nice, Moss.

[Gryffes]

Does anyone have a website/formula they trust for saying how many calories they should be burning a day?

Here is what I mean. I'm currently 255, have lost about 30 pounds. I'm only 5'8", so I'm still obese by any metric. My work life is sedentary, and my home life is sedentary. All of my physical activity for a day happens ONLY in the time I spend working out.

My target weight is 180 pounds at the moment (which would mean that at one point I was 100 pounds overweight - what the hell), I have a very stocky body type, so I have no idea if that is realistic or not, I just remember being 200 when I graduated high school and I was overweight then. I'm currently 36 years old.

This website: http://www.calorieking.com/interacti...es-calculator/ says that my lifestyle combined with my age combined with my target weight is 2,000 calories a day.

How accurate are these? Can a metabolism be worse than what they account for? Should I be adding how much I exercise to that calories a day total? Like if I do an hour of cardio and the machine says I burned 700 calories, can I trust that? And lets say I do 12 exercises, 4 sets of 12 each....how do I know how many calories that accounts for?

Guess I'm just confused.....lots of new info...I'm trying to change my diet, exercise for the first time since playing sports in high school...I don't know well...really anything.

Eating 2000/day will probably get you down to the 200lb range, track everything you eat in myfitnesspal.
If you want to make it easier, go low carb high fat.

[Meresgi]

Hmm at 5'11 and 220 that site says to be around 2300-2500 to maintain. Ive been trying to cut down to 2k a day to get down to 200lb at least to hopefully get a little more definition. I might download myfitnesspal's android app just to make it easier to track everything.

[pohibaba]

I used the Noom app for about 6 months and it helped me drop about 30 pounds.

[Chrius]

About that time again
scale

Spoiler: show

Date-------Weight---Fat
4/14/2013 274.057
4/28/2013 270.050
5/12/2013 264.886
5/26/2013 262.100
6/16/2013 258.429 60.874
6/30/2013 255.486 58.543
7/14/2013 251.571 56.963
7/28/2013 249.286 54.487 <-- pure fat weeks!

lifts, props to Milkster for introducing LPs to me

Spoiler: show

Start: May 7th ; reset squats and deadlift after switching to deep squats about a month in
5 rep work sets
Squat: 115 -> 257.5
Bench: 105 -> 155
Deadlift: 145 -> 305

[Fievel]

Very nice, keep it up man.

That's some crazy strength progress

[Guitarman]

Doing IF 18/6 splits, light exercise made me drop 14 lbs and lose 2.5 inches off my waist in a little under a month. Notbad.jpg.

About 17 more pounds and I'll be happy. I gotta get more muscle on my arms, though. I wish I could build at home somehow.

[Chrius]

Thanks! I probably could have started a little heavier, but I took the first workouts of SS to the letter. The set where my speed slowed the slightest bit, I quit there and made that previous set my starting workset.

[Fievel]

Looking for a few recipes for boneless skinless chicken breasts, either oven baked or done in the crock pot. I have a couple already but considering I eat chicken breasts for dinner 7 days a week I'm looking for a little more variety haha.

Any help is appreciated! Thanks