Recent content by DZLS

if you burn too many more calories than your maintainence level, you'll likely end up sacrificing more muscle tissue than you want, which will in turn decrease your metabolism, hence making it harder to lose weight... you have to remember that your body burns calories just to stay alive... if...

well it's certainly a low carb diet... can't say if it's good cause i don't know your stats or your goal...

I've never been a big fan of butter, but when making baked sweet potatos, i like to add some butter for flavor, and don't like mixing fats with my carbs... i keep my diet to a carb / protien or fats / protien meals... So any suggestions for a butter substitute that's low fat...? like less than...

yup the daily plate is a great tool... use it, and you'll get results...

well i learned something new today... good to know... i never consumed a crazy amount of protien so i assume i never had to worry about excess being stored as fat... of course i assume if you are on a high protien diet and training hard, you really would never have to worry about excess protein...

i'm thinking you should know if your workout was good or "useless" while you were at the gym... empirical data isn't going to give you the information you are looking for... by the numbers you did more work (volume) with the 12 reps at 87.5% of your max, but was it the kind of work you wanted...

back for more good stories... the thing that bugs me the most is bad form... saw 3-4 younger guys the other night (11pm) when i was in for a cardio workout... they were on the bench, had 225 on it... these guys were all tall and skinny (prolly 6' -6'4", 150-160lbs)... the weight was moving up...

i'm an AM workout guy, usually 9:30-11:00 range... I work 2nd shift so it's pretty much my only option unless I would work out at 11pm after work, but that doesn't seem conducive to maximum effort... i would like to see some studies done on workout times and results... disadvatnage of AM...

Good read, and the last 2 points are good endorsements of a 5x5 routine...

Thanks for the input BTP...

I hear and see dumb shit everytime i'm in the gym... it's unavoidable really, unless you open a gym and require members to take a test prior to granting them a membership... unfortunately you wouldn't make money doing so... i guess to each their own, though, cause at least they are doing...

Looking for some input on the best way to perform these for overall development, and saftey... In my past runs of a 5x5 i used an overhand grip and dropped the weight all the way to a resting position on the floor after each rep... I've seen these done with an underhand grip as well, and also...

where do i get the SL 5x5 starter program...? i don't think i have that, and want to get back into a 5x5 but want to start out very simply... from past experience after about week 5 shit starts to get real, and you'll be glad you started with what seems like it was "too easy"... ;)

pics would be helpful...

the culprit could be the way you bench... are you using more arms or chest when you press...? video of your movement would be nice...