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Treat abs like any other muscle. Give them days off.

First of all - good luck! A strict and healthy diet along with exercise should go a long way. Keeping good records of what you eat will help a lot. Often when we exercise we end up eating more than...

Snatch grip deadlifts are a great combo exercise to work them more than usual.

With no disrespect intended to IC and others, this misinformation pops up frequently and I find it surprising. I'm sure there are a few people out there with anecdotes about diet being king but it's...

Right on. Make sure you balance your pushes and pulls, otherwise you're setting yourself up for disaster.

Diet alone won't do it. Exercise is the necessary ingredient and can lead to weight loss even without a change in diet. Diet + exercise is best.

One hour is more than enough time. Try getting...

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Change it up. Do different exercises every month or two. Change the set and rep schemes from workout to workout.

I do them once in a while, but chances are you are hitting them enough with other exercises in your workout. Take a look in the mirror. If it looks like you need more work, add in shrugs. Otherwise...

I don't think you're actually doing the Texas method, as it is a 3 days a week program. A volume day, a light day and a heavy day. A detailed writeup can be found in Rippetoe's Practical Programming....

It's a decent routine for strength gains, focusing on one lift. It's fairly intense and I can't go too many weeks before I start getting fatigued and need to rest and switch up the routine.

Looks very good through the important parts of the lift. Don't hyperextend the back at the end - stay upright. Minor point - try getting the but down a bit more and sitting back on your heels.

Stop doing it for a while. After a certain amount of time your body will adapt to the stimulus and it gets extremely hard to get further gains. Take some time off. Switch to a different exercise to...

Warm up before, stretch after.

I give advice to my friends (those who I knew long before they started going to the gym) and only because they are new.

I never give unsolicited advice to strangers.

In the past I've give a few...

Swimming is probably the best form of aerobic exercise in my book. Sprinting is a close second.

Bikes are great for the knees but generally give a poor workout. The biggest problem I find with a...

First of all, are you taking time off on a regular basis? Something like a week off every 6-8 weeks? This is an absolute necessity for many lifters.

I find 3 days a week of lifting to be about...

Leg press is definitely not required. Squat variations are the essential leg exercises. Adding a leg press won't give you anything that you're not targeting already.

The benefit of getting a leg...

Copying articles from March 2010 Fitness Rx magazine verbatim and posting them on a forum probably isn't a good idea.

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There should be plenty of resources out there for diabetics on proper diet. That information should trump anything you pick up from bodybuilding sources.

With exercise, start slow. Don't overdo it...