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I bastardized mine from the name of Rydia, my favorite Final Fantasy IV character. I've been using it for over nine years and have seen less than a handful of others with the same username. Lucky...

My collarbones seem OK to me, but I can get my ribs to poke out scarily. It disturbs me that I have a pretty good amount of muscle on my back (I'm not exactly Ms. Olympia material, but there's some...

It depends on how drastically you're trying to change your physique. I'm not trying to get especially humongous or cut up, so as long as I keep my caloric intake in check and generally eat clean,...

Cardio is useless for bodyfat loss unless done in a fasted state.

Squatting below parallel will damage your knees.

Despite having a fraction of the testosterone of an average guy, a typical...

Personally, I don't worry about the calorie reading on the machine because HIIT's fat-loss benefit occurs after the workout is over. Calorie for calorie, HIIT has been demonstrated to induce fat...

I love whole eggs fried over hard and lightly salted. Along with cottage cheese, raw oatmeal, vanilla extract, and Splenda, eggs make an absolutely fantastic pancake batter that cooks into sweet,...

I generally stick to clean foods during the week and relax a bit on the weekends, which is when I like to go out for some really delicious but non-optimal food (example: Kasespatzel, which are eggy...

I do HIIT once or twice a week on non-lifting days. All of my workouts consist of jumping on the elliptical trainer and, after warming up, running hard for 15 seconds, jogging moderately for 45...

I personally like to do a rather aerobically oriented HIIT workout on the elliptical trainer:

1) 3-minute warmup, after which I restart the machine for the actual workout.
2) Set the resistance...

Agreed. I'm a woman with a mesomorphic build. I train with high weight, low reps, and an emphasis on compound exercises, and I eat plenty of protein (>100g/day at a bodyweight of 145 pounds). This...

I do HIIT on the elliptical trainer once or twice a week on non-lifting days. I warm up and do 15/45 intervals (a hard run alternated with a ~10-minute mile jog) for 20 minutes, trying to get as far...

Stretching keeps you limber so that some tendon or another won't get too tight and pull on other nearby parts of your musculature, causing mystery owies. For instance, a tight iliotibial band can...

I'm a 145-pound woman. I can do a total of nine chin-ups in a ladder (a bunch of short sets with ~30 seconds of rest in between). I know I can do at least one pull-up, but I've never tried to see...

Agreed. As long as you account for the calories in the beer, you're fine. I eat cleanly during the week, and on one day each weekend, I relax my diet and have some treat foods. I still keep track...

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*is female*

*is dying reading this thread*

Then again, maybe I shouldn't laugh too hard...even though they're small, my boobs get in the way when I bench. :p

Decrease workout time and jack up the intensity. High-intensity interval training induces bodyfat loss far more efficiently than endurance cardio. (link)

Cardio doesn't need to use fat as a substrate during exercise in order to be effective for bodyfat loss. Case in point: high-intensity interfal training, which burns mainly glycogen, has been...

I never liked Sweet 'n Low or any other saccharin-based sweeteners because they taste disgusting to me. Aspartame, which is found in Equal, is decent as a sweetener and tastes good in diet pop. ...

It's a zero-calorie sweetener that is made from real sugar, so it tastes very similar to sugar. You can cook with it, too.

Proten powder actually dissolves very well when mixed with oatmeal. You might have to add a bit of extra liquid (I splash skim milk on mine), but the result has a puddinglike consistency and no...