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Frankly, no: there are no shortcuts. Most of the pills and other miracle products you see on TV are snake oil. Eating fewer calories is a matter of sheer willpower, supplemented by some tricks that...

Eating "healthy" is meaningless for changing your weight/body composition. Your diet can be nothing but broccoli and chicken breast, but if you're eating too many calories of broccoli and chicken...

These pet peeve threads are a dime a dozen, and I've always resisted joining the party, largely because most of my bigger complaints have already been listed a hundred times. But last week, I...

I guess we're quibbling over the definition of "minor." As I perceive it, the pullup variations are akin to bench pressing on a flat, inclined, or declined bench: in all three cases, you're...

The three grips – palms facing you, palms facing away, palms facing each other – are essentially minor variations on the same exercise. Pulling yourself up to a bar is a pretty basic movement, and...

Colloquially, we call it "skinny fat" - skinny with your clothes on, but pudgy when shirtless. It's typical of people who don't weight train. The common wisdom is to bulk and cut: in layman's terms,...

Diet, of course, is paramount: if you're not eating enough, you won't grow period, let alone just in the biceps.

But maybe the bigger issue is that your body likes to adjust and adapt as a unit....

The fact that so many people are giving serious answers makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

ITT: Everyone insists that their favorite sport's athletes are inarguably the most athletic.

The problem with the article's premise is that it requires a dieter to essentially avoid carbs entirely; eating carbs would restore some of the body's glycogen stores, which would then become the...

I've always had a rough notion of this "glycogen" and "water weight" business, but I don't think I ever put 2 and 2 together and realized that, when you move from a bulk to a cut, your body will...

I'm not sure how the nutritional info appears on packaging in the UK, but Stateside is always says "Servings per container: x." So, even if you don't know whether the info refers to raw or cooked...

It's worth a try. I thought I've been doing a good job of deliberately tensing and activating the exact muscles I would like to target, but I'll continue to work on it. Thanks for the reply.

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Unless you live in Tijuana, the unfiltered tap water's fine.

I've always had trouble with my chest, since my shoulders are naturally large and they tend to overpower my pecs in most movements. I've done a bit of research and found various exercises/techniques...

Invest in a calculator. If your deficit Monday through Saturday is 1000 calories, and then you eat 1500 calories over maintenance on Sunday, your net caloric intake is +500 calories. So,...

I resemble those remarks. Should I be ashamed? :(

Correctamundo...reps for saving me the effort of making the exact same post.

This is probably the best way to put it. You may not develop an eating disorder per se - e.g., anorexia, bulimia, etc - but you may still become obsessive about exactly what you put into your body....

As long as you're not eating more than your target daily calories, go wild. Eat whatever you want.

But I've had that same problem - if I keep certain foods around, I'm powerless to resist them,...