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@servant52 No it is not an efficient way to accelerate weight loss. Cardio is likely not going to play a major role in your weight loss objective. The way people think about "adding" calories burned through exercise to your total daily energy burn isn't how things actually work. Guess it takes...

@ecs867 You say that your reps dropped the very first time you used them? And not even on all exercises? Seems pretty normal to go through an adjustment period when you try something new and not a cause for concern.

@nowhereman Can you give an example of your strength gains across different lifts? Did you start lifting two years ago as an absolute beginner?

@iamacountnotasaint If OP swapped out rice for veggies, he would effectively be on a zero carb diet, leaving his fat intake as his only energy macro. There are many reasons why this is less than ideal, especially if you're still training and trying not to lose muscle in a calorie deficit. I'm...

@iamacountnotasaint Why would OP want to swap out the rice for the caloric equivalent in veggies? Won't that make the glucose/carbohydrate he's getting out of the food even "less available"? He's not getting the carbs from any other source. Or do you think that the rice in his super simple...

@iamacountnotasaint You referenced starvation mode in the paragraph where you discuss Pontzer, in the sentence immediately after you say what you think the gist of Pontzer's book, is and you describe it as a form of metabolic adaptation--the subject of Burn. Sure seems like you're attributing it...

@iamacountnotasaint Pontzer is a strong proponent of dietary CICO and even has a whole passage in Burn about book about how low carb/keto/paloe-type diets that tout enhanced weight loss due to the marconutrient profile have it all wrong. The ENTIRE thesis of his book is that your body will...

@uzezi Facts and reality (in this case at least) support your opinion.

@uzezi Absolutely baffled by the downvotes. You would think the fitness dogma would have cracked a bit at this point in the face of overwhelming evidence. But I guess it took people a long time to accept the earth wasn't flat. And of course there are still stragglers...

@lynnmarie143 All that sounds great. Congrats! If you're able to get a result you're happy with, it really doesn't matter what the mechanism of action is. But just because you're not counting calories doesn't meant that your success in shedding fat isn't overwhelmingly attributable to your...

@sharkbait13 Yeah, all those youtubers have quality info- although sometimes they conflict with each other; but you have a brain so make your own decision in the end. Mike Israetel recently did a video about how front squats suck and basically almost everyone in the comments disagreed and many...

@fionar Ok--so you're not extremely overweight. As others have noted, as you get leaner, its going to be harder and harder to progress your strength while in a cut. That being said, no harm in going hard to see what happens. If you run into plateaus or regressions in strength--you'll know why...

@fionar What is your weight and height?

@tongdtbds3 In this case at least, people say it because its true. Unless you do extended bouts of strenuous, cardio-based exercise pretty much every single day, it will not result in a meaningful calorie deficit. And even if you DO do that your body will downregulate other calorie burning...

@sharkbait13 I love deadlifts just as much as the next guy, but RDLs are every bit as good as doing deadlifts. All the hypertrophic benefits with a better stimulus/fatigue ratio and lower injury risk. You're missing absolutely nothing by not doing deadlifts. Just my opinion, of course, but an...

@wally1648 Have you considered front squats? Because of the bar placement they will (a) put less strain on your lower back (and shift it to your core/upper back), (b) cause you to reduce the total absolute load/weight without a reduction in overall intensity (probably a plus for injury...

@drjon I'm just pointing out that injuries are likely and will affect the timeline. A perfectly reasonable response to OP's question. And OP himself acknowledged the point. Hardly fearmongering.

@drjon Sounds like you've had extraordinarily good luck. You may be the Lebron James of lifting. This is not the reality for everyone else.

@drjon From direct and indirect fitness experience. These are lofty goals. There will be injuries--I didn't say they would be catastrophic injuries--but there will be injuries that will set back this 1 year timeline. If you tweak your back/hip/knee doing deadlifts and squats its going to...

@ryan2240x Any reason why you can't walk 2.5 miles every day (or whatever your schedule allows), track your walking pace, and try to push it a little bit faster every time? Unless you have limitations that already prevent you from walking, that's the most straightforward (and probably the most...