Understood, ty for you time
I'll be around

Muscle's great and all, don't get me wrong, but the caloric burn from increased muscle mass is vastly overestimated. 1 lb of fat burns about 2 cals/day, 1 lb of muscle only burns about 6 lbs a day. If you switch out 30 lbs of fat for muscle (a ridiculous change), that's only an increase of 120 cals/day.

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/res...ch-review.html

I know what Nuclear said, however in fitness world, you can find many opposite thoughts... and I get confused

If you aren't already, try some tense bracing of your core (preparing for a punch to the stomach) to increase the tension already being put in place by holding your body straight.

I experience this shoulder fatigue also, but mostly because I've done some upper arm/shoulder work before hand.

Also make sure your upper arms are perpendicular to the ground. Part of the fatigue is coming from the fact you're likely leaning forward or backward some on your arms and the pressure that should be exerted from shoulder to elbow/forearm is on the muscles in the front of your shoulders. This will reduce some of the fatigue you are experiencing.

At least, this is what I've found for myself.

Plus, any muscle fatigue you feel also means you're working a muscle that normally doesn't get worked, so its not entirely bad. Call it circuit planking

12 pounds a year sounds pretty good actually.

yeah that's like 6 'free' beers a week no?

Sure, 120 cals/day is decent, but the -30 lbs fat +30 lbs muscle would take about 1-3 years depending on various factors. Not saying don't gain muscle. Just saying don't have your reason for gaining muscle be so that you can have a couple extra cookies a day 2 years from now...

Has any of you guys ever had a neck spasm when doing presses? I had a bad case of that yesterday. You know, the kind that feels like you strained your neck sleeping on a bad angle and can't fully rotate your neck left or right without serious pain at the end of the ROM?

Yeah...took about a week to recover. Lacrosse ball the **** out of it.

I've lived with that feeling for ~15 years.

Do that lacrosse ball thing at the beginning of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzozw2Aso3M
Do it daily. Some of your neck muscles are affected by those that get rolled doing that.

You can take a lacrosse ball directly to the neck, but that might not be enough if you're like me. I need to use either a Theracane or my knuckles to get deep enough into those knotted up neck muscles to make them better. Do it daily. You'll get better results if you're lying flat on the floor so your neck muscles dont have to support your head.

ART and deep tissue massage are the best ways to treat it imo, but both of those cost money.

God I hate that video that Cha always posts. But, b/c of that video I do that with a lacrosse ball almost every day. I really ought to watch it again but the guy doing the video just tilts the @#^$ out of me, lol. Thought I'd share as I always feel like I'm inadvertently being trolled when I click on it before I remember that it demonstrates a super valuable SMR technique.

yeah, he has an annoying personality, but the content is so good and unique, I've become immune to the annoying part.

seems pretty cool to me. your view of him probably really depends on where you live.

Bump?

This has probably been covered ad nauseum, but...:

Let's say you are doing 2 lifts on a given day, eg. squat and bench. Assuming you have the equipment at hand etc, what is the main reason not to do SquatSetOne, BenchSetOne, SquatSetTwo, BenchSetTwo etc? Convenience? Assuming you normally take 5 mins between each set if you do only one lift, you can probably cut it down to 3-4 mins here, which would 1) cut down your time in the gym and 2) increase the amount of rest* between each set of a given lift. I'm not talking super-setting.

*obv not complete rest as you do the other lift. You could counter this with increasing the rest time. The only negative impact I can see is that particular muscles might get cold as the rest between each set of a given lift could be too long then.

Guy seems OK to me as well.

I think Yugo grew up near where that guy is from......

At first, the guy seemed a bit overenthusiastic, somewhat phony to me. Once I paid attention to the stuff he is talking about, I was over that.

It could be difficult to maintain form switching between different near max effort exercises. Also any chest work before squatting throws off how the bar sits on my back during squats, and I assume it would be the same for others.

I don't think you need to worry about muscles getting cold though. I take 7-10 minute breaks between sets pretty regularly.

Depends on your gym, re: getting cold. My gym is cold-ish in the dead of winter with temps near 0 F/-20C. Helps with cotton sweat pants and hoodie though.

k-star borders on douchiness but he ultimately seems like a pretty cool guy. He'd be fine to have a beer with as long as he didn't talk about paleo and xfit.

This can't be right.

Man, this place has become troll central lately. Can we at least keep it to the LC threads?

anyone?

You mean the temperature conversion? It's pretty correct, I didn't bother google converting it.

Listening to your doctor> asking on here.