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Again, once you do this it will become clear how it works, but here is my solution.

When you spin the plates to loosen the collars one will always come off. I take the collar that did loosen and...

I was working out in my basement and taking a 45 off the bar. I don't have matts over the entire floor, I just put them down for doing deadlifts under the weights.

I dropped the 45 and with...

It might not be how I workout but it's still better then the vast majority of people in this country, be it young or older.

I'd give the guy a high five and tell him I hope to see him next time.
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Someone once told me that simply looking at the Misc. Forum will lower your IQ by five points every time you do it. I need all the points I can get so I have stayed away.

Also, unlike most in...

I don't know weather to laugh or cry about that one.

Sex for married people is like space travel. If you miss that window of oppourtunity you need to just wait till the next one, which is...

There is a small family run gym a few miles from were I work so it's there two days a week with runs in the park the others.

Actually my runs are more like circuits. I run around the park once...

I used saw horses and benched from the bottom before I built my rack. It's not the easiest thing getting under the bar but it worked fine.

Put the collar on, with the threaded part facing the plates, then use the wingnuts to hold the clamp in place on the bar.

Then you turn the large threaded collar to put pressure against the...

Given the current state of the Olympics the only way bodybuilding will ever be recognized is if it can be shown that the IOC can make money from it. Modern day professional bodybuilding makes money...

Just so I'm clear you want to put something on the bar to protect the rack.

Most places will have some type of nylon/UHMW on the rack itself. They are usually mounted with a few flat head screws...

Given the DHEA/Estrogen concern can you give any assurance that someone won't get DHEA with Placebo ATD.

You also need to define what a workout means.

I only lift weight twice a week but I alot of other stuff for four more days that don't involve weights but I consider a workout.

Follow Samantha's advice and open your stride up.

By doing that you really have to roll thru your foot heel to toe.

Most people when they start go very slow and may even use a stride shorter...

Let's see if I have this.

For a 300 lb snatch, as an example, they had 285lbs of weights and 15 lbs in chains.

What kind of effect were they expecting with that setup?

Edit to add: I had...

That's why I never refer to it as maintenance but Total Caloric Expenditure, although Eazy is correct in his definition. Total caloric expenditure just seems easier to understand.

I think many...

Just to give you a little perspective this is something that almost all of us have gone thru at some point.

As Bmol said just make a decision and go with it.

One of the worst things that you...

I agree with that as well.

I left squat behind when I lost my ego. My legs responded better to leg presses so that's what I went with. I spent many years dealing with the whole "your not a man...

This was many years ago but I read an article that said clenching your teeth durring a lift makes you weaker.

I don't know if it's true or not but it makes sense to me. Your expelling energy to...

I read down to the point were it mentioned you needed to be on a significant amounts of growth promoting drugs.

At least he is honest about saying that this type of massive bulking followed with...

Maybe he was trying to get himself mentioned on a bodybuilding forum.

In that case his workout was very effective.