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I'm still lifting, just not posting as much. Nothing major going on in the gym. Will have the drywall finished tomorrow and then we just need to paint and have carpet put in and all the home repairs...

What part of your knees hurt?

My legs were quite sore from the yard work, I did, particularly my hamstrings, so I just did 3 sets of step-ups with 40 lb dumbbells close to failure. Felt quite good.

I haven't seen any recent sports nutrition studies that seem interesting. Regarding the obesity point, there was like a 6 part article published in the USA Today that I haven't read, but I think you...

Today's workout:

Flat barbell bench press: 175x7, 175x6
Seated rows: 170x7, 170x6
Dips: BW+45x8, BW+45x4
Swivel-grip chin-ups: BW+45x8, BW+45x4
Incline dumbbell bench press: 60x5
Leaning back...

Today's workout:

Paused front squats: 195x3x6
Paused bulgarian split squats: 60s x6
Nordic leg curls: 10

All felt very good. No pain at any point.

In general if you are actively cutting you'll continue to see progress as you do so and you will be working towards a goal with an endpoint; this makes it easier to stay motivated. If you are just...

Today's workout:

Flat barbell bench press: 165x10, 165x6
Seated rows: 165x10, 165x6
Dips: BW+45x7
Swivel-grip chin-ups: BW+45x7
Incline dumbbell bench press: 60x8
Leaning back pulldowns:...

Today's workout:

Paused high back squats: 225x3x5
Paused bulgarian split squats: 60s x5
Nordic leg curls: 6

This all felt great, though after I had a bit of pain close to my knee cap when in...

Try to figure out what your goals are as opposed to what you think you should look like based on the "average" person. That said, in general for health you'll want to keep your waist size at less...

Today's workout:

Flat barbell bench press: 165x9
Seated rows: 160x9
Dips: BW+45x6
Swivel-grip chin-ups: BW+45x6
Incline dumbbell bench press: 60x8
Leaning back pulldowns: 140x8
Functional...

Today's workout:

Back squats: 225x2x4
Bulgarian split squats: 50s x2x4
Incline dumbbell bench press: 50s x2x8
Dips: BW+45x4, BWx14
Leaning back pulldowns: 140x2x8
Standing dumbbell rows:...

Consider trying to make the exercise even easier so it doesn't wipe you out. Then build up from there. For example, if walking around the courtyard is too much then walk 1/4 of that distance on day...

Today's workout:

Front squats: 185x3x6
Paused flat barbell bench press: 165x3x6
Paused seated rows: 160x3x6

Simple but effective and felt good. Will continue ramping up volume each session...

Finally back at it. The basement repair got pushed back a week and it was hot without AC, but now everything is done other than making the walls look nice.

Today I did:

Squats: 135x12, 155x12...

General rule of thumb is to keep less than 10% of your total calories from added sugar. So if you eat 2,000 kcal/day, 2,000/10 = 200, and assuming 4 kcal/g, 200/4 = 50. So you'd want <50 grams of...

It cannot, you'll only be able to close it less than 1 cm or so, you cannot do full reps with it. You could do isometrics with it but I don't feel that would be a very efficient use of time (and you...

That is pretty much what it says. To summarize briefly:

- he uses NHANES data from ~2000-2020 to indicate energy intake has stayed the same (based on 24 hour dietary recalls)
- he acknowledges...

Interesting read: https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/115/6/1445/6572830

I'm not going to comment on everything but a couple thoughts not directly mentioned:
- Even if calorie intake has not...

I'm not aware of any guidelines that consider anything beyond what I posted above.