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I'm afraid that at 6'0'' and anything close to 200lbs, you will have a fair bit of fat on you unless you are a really jacked up monster.

Your genetics decide where the fat goes - if it's on your...

It's not about time under tension - that's incidental - it's possible to make a routine with very high TUT which is totally ineffective.

You can use lighter weights and higher reps for hypertrophy...

The problem is that you are at a low glycogen and water state so eating anything above what you normally eat - especially more carbs or sodium will have this effect. But it's not a sudden increase in...

So do I, it's much easier to set up than with a free weight barbell. The bar path is close enough to being straight IMO.

I've also used it for front squats (I can't get comfortable with back...

The most interesting questions revolve around predicting what will happen if something is changed - and predictions of the future of complex systems is way beyond any person - smart or not. But we...

It's about daily totals - calories burned compared to calories eaten. Worrying about when you eat during the day is mostly a waste of time.

Form check video would help to check lower back / hip position.

For me, focusing on romanian deadlifts with proper form helped - as did the hip abductor machine that you generally only see women...

It doesn't have to be formally planned using percentages and I too like the idea of reactive training such as using reps in reserve to decide how many reps to do each set. But whatever strategy you...

Not sure how useful it is to bump a 3 year old thread just to poke holes. OP is long gone. Evolve and move on.

I can't see your pictures but you sound pretty light. I would expect to advise muscle gain if I could see them.

Ignore the results of BF% scales. They are notoriously unreliable. Unless you got...

You can get ultrasound probes to use on your own. They might do something if the problem is muscular or connective tissue. They won't do anything if the problem is the joint surface or cartilage. So...

Fat is OK. If you use grams not percentages - and if you are overweight, it's better to use your lean body mass or target body mass not your current body mass when doing the sums.

Calorie level...

You don't lose anything in a week or two other than a little motor pathway learning (technique) which quickly comes back when you start training again.

Enjoy your time off, come back with renewed...

I investigated this and other forms of carb manipulation a while ago and concluded that there is no benefit to messing with carb levels day to day. There is no objectively measured evidence of this...

I echo the suggestion to read the sticky threads - we all need a certain basic level of knowledge and it's condensed into those threads.



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Fat cells can retain water to replace the lost fat. This seems to be made worse due to the stress of calorie restriction. Increasing calories relieves the stress and you are more likely to drop the...

I don't eat 6 times a day so clearly I wouldn't recommend that. It would just trigger my appetite all the time.

2011 thread...

Same here.

I have a spreadsheet which I put foods I commonly eat onto. So each day I just have to put in the number of portions and it calculates total calories and grams of protein.

Typical...

You've been losing weight, this always places a restriction on any muscle growth. Sometimes, people make no progress at all beyond the initial newbie gains while they are dieting. Although I think...