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Thanks partyrocking, I'll pay more attention to my hips on my squats and deads. With deads I always try to feel like I'm exploding into the bar with my hips which is what causes me to hyper-extend a...

Ok so this was my 2nd day in the gym back after a long layoff (4 months) due to an ankle injury. I hopped back on Bill Starr's 5x5 on Monday and the second workout ("light squat day"). I dropped my...

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Probably the most annoying voice I've ever heard in my life. If I couldn't get her out of my head it would be because of that voice and nothing more.

As stated above, there is no workout program that is designed to get you to gain weight. The only thing that will get you to gain weight is eating more calories. Now the structure of the program...

My personal opinion, your legs and lower back support you on just about every major compound exercise worth a damn in turn making you better at those lifts. You'll be hard pressed to improve those...

http://www.defrancostraining.com/ask_joe/archives/ask_joe_08-10-03.html. Start about 2/3 down. Great stretching routine that has helped me greatly in increasing my ability to get lower on my squat...

^^ This. What I find really works well is doing cable lateral raises where you hang onto the cable machine and lean out to the side you are working. If you do it right it's constant tension on the...

Yes I mean 300 for a 1 rep max. Not that it's set in stone but it's a good number to shoot for before worrying too much about the different parts of your chest. I'd work on upping your bench...

Something like Iron Addict's Simple Power Based Routine is something that I know has worked well for a lot of people. You can have a look at it here...

The only important question is, are you making progress? If the answer is yes, don't change anything. If you are stalling, then I'd probably add more rest days into your routine.

First off, you've gained 15lbs in half a year, that's pretty darn good progress. You wouldn't sign up for 30lbs in a year? Secondly, how much have your lifts gone up? Are they continuing to go up?...

How big is your chest overall? How is your strength? Generally you just need to get your chest bigger overall. If you're not benching 300 yet, get to work on that before you start worrying about...

This is basically how I piece together my diets and it works all my clients.

1. Determine maintenance level of caloric intake.
2. Add or subtract appropriate number of calories (roughly 500 is...

I'm not sitting here saying you won't be able to make gains. But it's also fairly conclusive that you can only see so much sarcoplasmic growth. Increased tension is by far the main stimulus for...

You are making the muscle more resistant to muscular damage. Muscular damage is the main stimulus for hypertrophy. It's not preventing it from happening, it's just way less optimal.

Think of...

Excerpt from Kelly Baggett's article titled "We Must Protect This House":

"Even without that nutrition, your body will still stimulate non-size related muscular adaptations that enable it to...

Maintaining what you have is a lot easier than trying to obtain it. The workouts should basically stay the same in a sense but you can cut back on your volume and frequency and still maintain your...

Given that you are a beginner, I would advise that you stick to more of a full body program with less volume. You would see much better results, especially in the long term. However, knowing that...

These "strategies" and "tactics" you're referring to are just tools that advanced trainees use to keep them progressing when the simple basics will no longer do the job. It sounds a little bit like...