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I agree on wearing a belt if your going to failure. You should never ever go past failure or perform negatives on DL's because your form gives out and there is nothin to compensate because you are already utilizing all the available muscles- unlike going past failure on bicep curls where...

Well i know when your in a state of ketosis your body breaks down the fat to use for energy and gets joules out of it to complete whatever tasks your doing. I just assumed that energy was in the form of glucose. Not sure hey

Can the glucose created when fat is broken down for energy be used to fill glycogen stores when you are in a depleted state (ie low carb cycling, or ketosis maybe?)? Im thinking no, otherwise whats the point of a carb load? if not why cant it be used?

Thanks for the answeres guys. cw what i was saying is you could do say 60 mins at 125bpm steady.. or could you use interval training so that your heart rate would go like this (T=Time, this is roughly what i noted with todays session ) T = 110bpm - Begin sprint T+5= 110bpm T+10 = 120 -...

Are you able to use interval training ( ie. sprint for 7- 10 seconds then rest for 40 seconds and repeat as many times as necessary) to keep your heart rate in fat burning zone which for me is around 110-135 and produce same results as low intensity cardio that keeps heart rate constant...

Can someone tell me if there is a way to determine which training regime your body will respond best too. Does certain regimes working for some and not for others depend on how many fast twitch / slow twitch fibers they have, the ratio and or their metabolism?? Surely there must be some way to...

cool thanks guys.. i was curious cause this sorta applies to me... i gained about 8 kg initially when i started lifting and since have gained only 1kg but in that time of gaining 1kg my max bench has gone up 50lbs

There are two guys, one focuses mainly on size and trains 8-12 rep range he has gained like 50 lbs of muscle but only squats about 200lbs more than when he started. the other is mainly a strength athelete like olypmic lifter or sprinter etc and trains in the 1-5 rep range and only weighs about...