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Hmm...really? I'll give that a try sometime. :)

Here are a couple of reasons against extremely hot showers after heavy lifting: Extremely hot and cold showers or sauna baths should be avoided after exercise. These extreme temperatures increase the workload on the heart. Especially after an intense session, a shower that's too hot may cause...

Yup, soreness, pump, "burn" are hype terms that don't necessarily equate to squat in terms of muscle growth. They may be motivating or pyschologically gratifying but do not mean much otherwise. All that matters is getting stronger and developing your muscles.

Supposedly, if you must shower immediately after lifting, you should take a luke-warm/room temperature shower. Neither a cold nor hot shower is good for the muscles after intense training.

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Good advice...You're not supposed to be jumping up 20#'s. It should be a incremental load increase of 5#'s each week assuming you were able to hit all reps & sets. But good progress. :bigthumb:

That's a good question about sleep...I know first hand if you're not getting enough it'll kill your lifts in the gym. I haven't been getting enough sleep (roughly 5.5 - 6 hours/night) and I'm on a low-carb diet (have been for the past 8 mos.) so when I don't get enough sleep I definitely don't...

Yup, you're right. When doing db side lats, you should come up parallel to the shoulders and make sure that you're pinky knuckle is higher than your other knuckles <-- Like pouring a glass of water from a pitcher. Very good analogy. :)

If it was just beef and beans, it wouldn't be too bad for you. But there are other things you need to look out for such as sugar & fat content.

It's not that bad (in the 2nd pic)...Perfect symmetry is nearly impossible (I can only really think of Zane when I think symmetry). His back looks fine and all I can say is learn to take pics better. (<-- Both pics, your friend is tilted...Why? This distorts the perspective and skews what we're...

If you're going to do that, do an ME day and have a DE day. I don't suggest working the 5x5 system two days a week for the same body part.

Needsize: Thanks for clearing that up to all those that don't understand it.

Have fun overtraining!!!! Seriously, as previously mentioned by a couple of others, do not work out a bodypart more than 1x/week. Unless you're a newb to training...newbies seem to be able to get good growth despite overtraining/bad training/poor diet, etc. But if you've been lifting for a...

Way too much sodium! You'll also probably gain wait from water retention from all that sodium if nothing else. If need be for convenience sake, switch to canned tuna (if you don't like tuna you can buy canned chicken). Dunno if you're on a keto diet, but if you are add some full fat mayo and...

Doesn't matter what exercise you're doing. You need to be starting off lighter if you can't go up 5lbs the next week. That means if you have to start with the bar so be it. I had to do this with some of my lifts and bring it down quite a bit from what I normally did and it was embarrasing at...