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Sure Dio, we'll let you head up that undertaking

I always found dips very awkward and hard on the shoulder joints. If you wouldn't normally consider doing decline bench, then dips are just as silly. I'd go with the diamond push-ups. Or, barring that, just regular push-ups. Triceps don't *really* need extra work

Yah, definitely depends on your goals. If healthy blood pressure and cardio health is what you want, walking a few times a week is fine. As long as you maintain an elevated heart rate for 10 minutes or more.

I've a few forums online where you can get experts to eyeball your BF levels. Depending on the person/pictures taken, you could actually get very good measurements. Why? Experience in the industry. You learn after seeing X number of people with Y bodyfat, how people look with certain amounts on them. BMI IS pretty good though, unless you're like BBing size. Don't kid yourself and say you're heavy because of excess muscle when you aren't lifting silly amounts of weight.

Used to play waaaaaaaaay too much COD, but I moved back home away from the PS3 and now I just finished running Twilight Princess. What to do next...

Admittedly, I think cardiovascular health is one of the first things you should look for when first getting into fitness. All things aside, it does the most for overall health and energy levels. Add everything in at the right times though, and there is no reason for anyone not getting into BBing or marathons to tend toward one extreme or the other.

Hey guys, to anyone hating on the man, I urge you to visit his blog and read/watch his stuff. Regardless of what he set out to do, the guy (at least seems to be) is going through an emotional rollercoaster while doing this. I'd say it's worth reading the actual blog at fit2fat2fit.com before making any judgements.

If you want to really win at bacon, get back bacon, otherwise known as canadian bacon to you non-canucks out there. All the great taste of bacon, a hell of lot leaner. Even if you want regular bacon, it's really not all that high in fat, assuming you cook it properly. All that juice left in the frying pan is all the fattiness that used to be in it! Now if you cook your eggs in it afterwards, well...

It's hard to really comment on the article without seeing what he looks like a year out. I definitely think muscle memory is going to play a huge part in this though; the fact that he was once in shape is going to make it much easier for him to re-gain his muscle mass than someone still trying to build their base. Not so for the fat though; I believe he'll have a harder time taking off the fat than putting on simply because in the act of gaining 70 pounds, he's bound to have generated a new host of fat cells within his body, and THOSE will not come off easily, if at all, without some extra help.

As a proud caffeine addict, I have to say that there really isn't a way to escape the lethargy that comes with caffeine deprivation. Just like hunger when you go on a calorie reduced diet, you pretty much have to suck it up and deal. The good thing is that your body re-adjusts and should operate normally after 7-10 days off the juice. Of course, to me at that point, I just begin consuming caffeine again and continually up my dosage until I'm back at like 4 cups a day >:]

Did a full cycle during my last year of highschool. We literally did P90X for my personal fitness class:P In the end, it definitely worked well... for some muscle groups. Namely abs, back, and lower body explosiveness. Didn't do much for chest or arms really. But if you want to get to the point where you can do pull-ups and you can't right now, it'll get you there.

Also new here, and I have to ask. Since it was taken down, can someone point me towards a cached version of the original webpage? Just so I have something to salivate over until OMFG 2.0 comes out!

Well since you asked! Short term, I want to get my body fat level down to an appropriate level for what I do: play rugby. Currently around 16%, and should ideally be sub 10. Long term, there are a lot of fitness aspects to rugby that all need improvement. One step at a time though, and some can probably even be met while cutting down the size (you need a HUGE aerobic engine to perform in rugby so that ties in rather well). My plan for the next few months can break down by month pretty much: - For the rest of October, I'll be maintaing current strength and endurance capabilities, maybe minor improvements, until the season ends early November. Making gains right now would be difficult as I practice twice a week (pretty gruelling too) with two games on the weekends. So working out by myself more than once/twice a week is un-ideal. - Once the season winds down, I still have one last tournament at the end of November. However for that month I'll be practicing once/twice a week and my schedule opens up. After maybe a week of recovery, I want to start active cutting. My plan of attack for this is the UD2, created by Lyle Mcdonald. If you don't know what that is, it's essentially a cyclical ketogenic diet designed to quickly empty your system of all available glycogen, followed by a hayuuuge carbload that over compensates your glycogen stores in order to have a MASSIVE work out at the end of the week. Did a three week test run earlier (would have gone longer but ran into over-training/injury problems during the season) and the results blew me away. Came out the same bodyweight as I did going in, but made about a 10% gain on most my lifts: BP went from 185 to 205, squats from 250 to 300, etc. - After either making my BF goals or running out of time, I'll transition to a high-carb diet with aggressive endurance/interval training. Ideally this will start about 8 weeks prior to the season, which we begin sometime in April. So that makes the transition period begin around February. That gives me about three months to drop 6% BF; aggressive, but I've seen much bigger results on the UD2. - Once the season hits, well, its a 6-7 month season, so body composition & strength will have to stay at maintanence levels, but hopefully I can peak my overall 'fitness' by August to be fully prepped for post-season. Well THAT ended up being longer than I intended! It's also the first time I've fully laid out my intentions and plans though, so feel free to critique!

Honestly? Hangovers and workouts are best friends for me. Lurve sweating it out after a good night out. Mind you, I'm also more of a clubber. Side note; I work at a company that manufactures rail cars. Small world. Do yourself a favour though and do HIIT on non-workout days. You'll hate your life less that way.

Well, there is a time and place for 500 cal a day diets. The time is when you are morbidly obese with a need to shed massive amounts of weight or die within a matter of weeks. The place is probably in a hospital, supervised by doctors and nurses. I guarentee they would not feed you pregnant p**s with it too though.

You know you read that in your best Sloth impression too! Just joined after some issues getting set up! I'm hurr to basically join the commotion and meet up with some like minded fitness nerds! Too many other forums either perpetuate the horrid 'broscience' or even worse, promote fad diets like ... that thing where they drink eau de pregnant lady! (HCG diet, I wish I was, but I'm not even joking >.>) Sooooooo uh yah :3