Again, you are wrong. This is not a topic I can debate with you since this isn't the appropriate setting and you don't know enough about the subject to discuss it.

I'm really interested in this subject. If someone has some particularly good articles on this I'd love to read more.

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/mus...-changes.html/

Thanks!

Just wanna say that I am sure that this is more than I used to eat before this post and that I have lost weight, while training the same, after eating like this.

I guess it needs more calories, as ~3k isn't enough.

Vitamin newbie...what can you tell me about Kroger vitamins as compared to others in the market? I bought Fish Oil 1000 mg today. Wanna make sure I didn't throw my money away.

Thanks!

Evalute the actual EPA and DHA content. 1g of Fish Oil could be something like 250/200 EPA/DHA and the rest just plain old fats.

If I'm looking for advice / critique of my daily diet, is this the best thread to post my info. in, or should I create an entirely new thread under "Health & Fitness"?

Either is fine

all of the hip stretches generally suggested don't seem to focus on getting the angle between your lower back and thighs to be more acute (while keeping your back neutral).. is there anything that focuses on that specificly?

Frog stretch?

kaby - look into the resting squat.

I've been doing dead bugs and bird dogs - but I don't really feel any burn or much of anything really. Is that common or am I doing anything wrong? I try to hold it for 5-10 seconds as well, but still don't really feel much of anything.

yeah just doing squats is prob the best way

rav, frog stretch doesn't really do that right? or maybe I'm doing it wrong

no I meant sitting in a resting squat as a stretch. Its a good hip stretch and generally works for me.

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Caloric deficit is fine. 1500-1600 a day. Your split given your lack of equipment is ok but you'll need to work out how to progress. Upping the reps until you can use the heavier dumbbell at lower reps and repeat. I'd swap some.of the exercises around tbh but it doesn't matter much. Looks like you have a pull up bar. Tbh I'd probably be emphasising that and having pull ups or chin ups as my main exercise one day. I'd also do flat bench instead of incline. If you want to do more than 3x a week as you feel it's too many days off then just do every other day instead. That's 3.5x a week and gives a recovery day between each workout and is better than doing them on consecutive days.

New to the vitatmin game. Started taking Fish Oil (Krogers) last week and checking into Saw Palmetto. I saw there's an extract and actual herb version of SP. Which is the best to take? Is there a dramatic version? Also, do brands of vitamins make that dramatic of a difference?

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For fish oil, the EPA/DHA content you're getting daily is what's most important. Aim for somewhere between 1.8-3gr of EPA+DHA daily which would be 6-10 capsules. I haven't read any studies on this but how the fish oil is derived is most likely not going to make any significant difference and any normal extract will do the trick.

Vitamin brands are not going to make much difference apart from price and vitamin/mineral composition. You get much more bang for buck with some brands than with others. You can check out best-sellers on sites like iHerb or the Bodybuilding.com store and compare their profiles to see what makes most sense for you.

For most people any multi-vitamin is going to be plenty of supplementation. One more thing that makes sense to buy separately is vitamin D3, which you can take 5000-10,000iu/day of (assuming you're an adult male that doesn't see much sunlight like most of us nerds) and is usually not included in high enough amounts in the multi.

My Kroger Fish Oil (1000 mg) container says to take 1-2 a day? Is that enough?

Just do the math based on whatever it says the epa/dha content. But it also depends on how much fish you eat, or whether you're really deficient in general.

If you're really going to start supplementing vitamins and such, you might as well put in the work and get blood work fairly regularly (quarterly seems decent enough) and actual track your levels.

Q1. When should i increase weight? So for instance... First set: 12 (not failure) Second set: 12 (failure) Third set: 8/9 (failure). Should i be looking to increase weight here 1-2.5kg? Or weight until its a solid 12/12/12

Q2. ive been watching A LOT of athlean-X videos. Think theyre great at explaining and helping with any pain i do have. In his chest fly video he suggests doing it on the floor and overload. Isnt a big part of chest flies the ability toget the weight back up to the middle? Thats what i feel when ive been doing them, most of the chest is working getting it back up. On his vids he overloads, focus's on it moving down...then presses the weight back to the middle.

vid here:

Does anyone have any resources to find a highly qualified WL coach in MA?

Googling has found various WL gyms with no real way to determine quality of PT instruction.

Found the answer to this: RWL weightlifting in Franklin, MA

For weightlifting, I would start here.

http://www.teamusa.org/usa-weightlif...wc/find-a-club

Then look up their coach info.

Ranked as follows,

Sr. International Coach
International Coach
National Coach
Club Coach
Advanced Sport Performance Coach
Sport Performance Coach

http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Weightlifting/Coaching

Click Coach Rating Explanation

I can't remember where you live exactly, but I believe you are in/around Boston, so should be easy to find someone decent.

Based on the quality of US WLing and the quality of various coaching credentials, I'd suggest not paying a large amount of money for a dude with a sheet of paper.