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Hi guys. Here is a video of me doing 5x120kg. (it's blurry only in the first couple of seconds) I think there's something wrong with my hips as I think most of the movement is performed by the upper part of the body (which also would explain the pain the day after in the lower back which goes away in around 2 days). Looks like I do the movement in two parts: lift and then hips forward. How would I fix this? And I realized my head is pointing up instead of being neutral. What do you think?

I'm going to program a new food plan for the new season and I wanted to calculate my TDEE (which I'll increase of 10% for bulking purposes). My BMR is 1529 cal/day (according to Mifflin-St Jeor formula) but at this point I don't know how to consider strength training. For which factor should I multiply the BMR to get it? I'm on 5/3/1 and consider myself at intermediate level. Thanks

Hello people, I'm back. On Monday I'll start 5/3/1 (need to measure my 1RM first after coming back from holidays). I'll start bulking using Sundays as intermittent fasting days.

As I'm back from my holidays and start 5/3/1 I don't want to start bulking because I gained some fat that I want to loose from my previous bulking period. I read about "recomposition". What do you guys think?

Let's say that you're cutting and on SL. You keep the same weight for each workout?

How can you be in huge deficit and still make progress?

I'll introduce chin-ups. As for the diet: Mehndi himself suggests the anabolic diet: http://stronglifts.com/anabolic-diet-101-the-definite-anabolic-diet-guide/ This looks quite interesting and indeed was kind of my idea. So, when I'm back from my holiday I should stop SL and start 5/3/1 and work with accessory exercises to work on my weak points. Although I didn't get your point on subbing power snatches for BB rows while cutting. In general I also didn't understand three things: 1) when did you decide that was time to go back to SL and 2) do you follow a different program while cutting? 2) for cutting do you mean keeping the caloric intake to maintenance or below?

Thing is that I'm gaining too much fat! (I'm on anabolic diet, btw)

Definitely I want to get bigger. I'll start taking creatine as I'm back. I want also to loose some belly fat and for that I want to try Eat Stop Eat 1x week.

Hello everybody. I started stronglifts 5x5 in January, had couple of setbacks due to illness, pain and muscle problems. So far I managed to get to the following results: Squat: 90kg/198lbs (3x5)Bench Press: 77.5kg/171lbs (3x3 and can't progress)Barbell Row: 60kg/132lbs (5x5)Overhead Press 47.5kg/105lbs (3x3 and can't progress)Deadlift 110kg/242lbs (1x5)And here are my body characteristics: Height: 167cm/5' 6''Weight: 60kg/132lbsI'm quite a skinny guy and from January I gained 8 kg of muscles and fat. I'm satisfied with my strength gains but not that much with my general body aesthetic. I know that I'm strong but I don't look like, you know what I mean? Furthermore I was thinking: how strong do I want to become? Right now I feel that my goal is reached, I don't want to squat 300 lbs, or deadlift 500 lbs! I'm leaving for two weeks holiday in South East Asia and when I come back I would like to change program. I still wanna be this strong but also look like I am. What do you guys think I should do? Keep doing stronglifts or switching altogether to something else?

The thing is that stronglifts didn't make those muscles stronger to start with

I watched it but I guess I asked the wrong question: should I do those exercise together with my normal routine or just those auxiliary exercises?

Hello people. I have been to a new and way better PT. The problem was the erector spinae and not the piriformis. Now the pain is almost gone and I'd like to start lifting again (with lower weight). I've been watching the series "So do you think you can squat" and reading a lot and I realised that I need to strenghten my abs, lowerback and hamstrings. What can I do to improve those?

I feel that I'm falling backward! How would you prevent that? (sorry for the ridiculously dumb questions) My PT told me that I can put something under my heels (like a weight plate) to make it easier: it creates a sort of thickness.

This is exactly what my PT said! Still I can't manage to do that! I tried to google "squat leaning forward" but it's always about the ascending part of the squat while my problem is in the descending part. Does this kind of "problem" have a name?