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That's a big increase, chances are that you've got the muscle power but you've conditioned your central nervous system to deal with the weight. Otherwise that's a mad 20% increase in strength!

I'm skiing too on Sunday, my chalet has a 'gym' but I don't imagine it will be anything heavy enough for a workout. Probably just a spin bike and running machine. Excited nonetheless

Mon: chest and tri's Tues: shoulders and bi's Wednesday: back (upper and lower) Thursday: legs and abs Friday: rest Sat: abs and cardio Sunday: rest Finally onto the bottom row of dumbbells for chest press, 30kg! Mike, the gym is an all accepting place where you go to better yourself. People won't (shouldn't) judge you as you're there with mostly the same goals as them.

That's not an completely unreasonable amount, depending on the macro's of that meal and how much exercise you're doing. (I also saw that status!) I tend to make a meal, with approximately the same calories as yours tonight, and divide it into two/three takeaway containers eating once at 4:30 and again at 7:30. By the time 7:30 comes around chances are you're not starving hungry and could easily have a yoghurt or something less calorie dense and save it for tomorrow.

Once you start eating small meals, your stomach shrinks and you're full SO much easier. I've been eating like that for a month now, and tonight I struggled to eat 1.5 cups (400g) brown rice, (200g) chicken breast, a handful of broccoli and some pasta sauce. Today was carb refeed day, as they have been cut a fair bit in my diet. I ate that meal twice today and feel like I've eaten a football! Today was squats and abs day for me (strange I know) but these were the things left out of my workouts this week. I squatted 70kg for 8x8, which is pretty terrible but definitely something to work on. In more positive news I have got my deadlift sorted and can do 80kg 6x8, and feel comfortable enough to start racking the weight up.

There's only one rule, and that's that there is no* rules *except maybe in the bumall, sorry Dann

Interstellar, watched it last night and it was probably the best film of 2014. Really clever and will appeal to anyone who likes physics/astronomy especially.

It's sunny! I live in Swansea and I've forgotten what the sun looks like, turns out it's pretty warm.

Is anyone having brown rice tonight? If so could they weigh how much one protein scoop (27g) of rice (uncooked) weighs when cooked? I'm at uni and we don't have scales, I use the scoop to measure put one serving but need to know how much it weighs cooked for calorie purposes. A big ask I know!

Of course I was exaggerating a bit, if you're retarded you can hurt yourself doing anything! I haven't watched the video as it says *warning graphic* and I'm eating some food, but I can imagine her leg bends and crumples under the weight. Yeah you can lock your knees out, which is a terrible idea but if you're on one that the seat remains static and the weights move like this: you're pretty darn safe compared with a free-weight squat. The ones where the seat moves up an inclined plane are horrible due to the angle at which you push at encouraging you to lock-out. edit: the text on the image wasn't me, and isn't true.

Wooooooah there Dann, you need to get back on that. No matter what it takes!

I can leg press a HUGE amount more than I can squat, leg press keeps everything straight for you so you can concentrate on pushing rather than balance. You can't possibly hurt yourself either.. Is it a free weight leg press or a cabled one? As the cabled ones the actual weight lifted tends to be less than is indicated. Edit: also don't bother putting peanut butter in hot chocolate- it's like a turd floating near my upper lip.

I love the second he'd finished, he gets his iPhone out to see if he's got any messages- so casual

Dann that exhaust is infuriating me, one tip is about a yard longer than the other!

I agree, I want something like that to provide me with 'quality' calories rather than processed sh*t. Every two hours feels like it works for me, just need to add another meal in! Going by the rule that you can have 9 calories for every lb of body you have (bodybuilding.com told me this), I can cut at around 1400 calories as long as I once a week have a high carbs day in order to keep my metabolism up. This is all new to me really, as I never really thought about my diet as something that was so important. Learning a lot about what I need/ don't need to eat to feel healthy and trim down.

You must have bought the best one out there as I paid £300 for my first 106, and frankly I probably overpaid! But yes, something like the Alfa (I'm bias because I really like the Giulietta) or a diesel A3 would be perfect. A LCR is probably a bit off for what you're looking for, comfortable enough to do a 2 hour motorway journey, but the Alfa is more... civilised. I'm going to be driving the 106 to Swansea in a few weeks, any tips on how to tolerate the induction drone? It's going to drive me mental.

Eating meals that are approximately 200=250 calories that's actually quite a considerable amount. I'm really struggling to get my calories in though, I've had 1131 today and have had 2 llama burgers (for the extravagant student), brown rice, eggs, zebra sausages (blame musclefood), veggies and a bowl of tuna mayo. Perfect diet for cutting, but you do have to eat every 2 hours-ish otherwise you're not hungry but you haven't had enough!

It depends on the market but I believe you'll be getting the entry level Giulietta for 10k unless you're willing to get one with around 50k miles on the clock. Think about what you want in terms of power, MPG, boot capacity, etc and I'm sure people can give some recommendations. The more modern Fords are likely to be a good shout, as they are crazy fuel efficient and suitably cheap that you could probably get a very new one.

Really liking the 5 smaller meals way of eating, I feel like I've eaten so much today but I'm only on 1030 calories. I know that's too low and I'll go into starvation/conservation mode, I really thought I was near 1700 until I checked. I properly recorded everything too, all sauces and drinks included. 123g protein, 91 carbs, 23g fat P.S Zebra sausages for the win.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmH3Gwf9UiY :pretendthisisembedded:

That's good work, I'm trying to do the same and am probably around 22% bf. I stick to my diet every day if I'm eating at home, but if I have to get lunch out it all seems to go to sh*t, nothing even remotely healthy available on campus for a reasonable price.

From what to what? And also how do you measure it, presuming it's electric scales in which case it's best to take a few readings and average it. 4.1% is massive! Congrats dude

New PB?

Get rid, you've already got a big powerful 4x4 capable of your racecar towing needs

I like the message in that video, but ultimately almost every professional athlete is focussed on their 'movement' so this is really only aimed at people who lift weights in their spare time to get fitter/ gain some muscle mass. The most time efficient way of which is going to the gym and lifting weights, using movements which isolate the muscle that's being focussed on. What he is saying makes total sense, that you'll only be strong in a single plane but that's what most people are willing to have if it means you can have a big chest doing 3 workouts a week. I think he's correct that complex movements will make you stronger in a more linear and overall sense, but 'getting back to the more natural state our bodies are capable of' shouldn't necessarily be everyones goal. Interesting video nonetheless and is inspiring to do more creating things rather than press all day long.