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@rufflychux Just do whatever makes you happy. If you're really tired of losing weight, eat at maintenance. If you feel up for the challenge of losing a bit more weight, that's fine too. The thing about being a normal body weight is that as long as you're making positive changes, it does not...

@jamierite74 I think that you’re better off spending spending most of the year in an anabolic state where you’re gaining weight week to week. However, I also think that if you’re bulking for 4 months, 5 months, you may have become less sensitive to the anabolic muscle building signals of...

@yallow Barbell medicine has some great content on blood pressure that they've put out. https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/a-basic-guide-to-blood-pressure-part-i/ https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/the-effect-of-resistance-training-on-high-blood-pressure/...

@amanda11 And, obviously, maybe you'd want to split up leg day between Monday and Friday if it's the most taxing for you. It's just an example.

@amanda11 No. Let's say it's MWF. M: Push and Legs. W: Legs and Pull. F: Pull and Push. or M: Push, pull, legs W: Push, pull, legs F: Push, pull, legs Just divide up the exercises you train in a sensible way.

@amanda11 Don’t do a “split.” Let’s say you do squats, leg extensions, calf raises, and RDLs for legs and you train MWF. Train each of those 2 days out of MWF. Either have three days with some “leg exercises” or two. Then, just do the same for every exercise you’re currently doing. It’s full...

@backnforth You're saying you want to go from a 1RM of 290-300 lbs to a 1RM of 355-366 lbs? That's a big increase. A bench 1RM of 366 lbs at 183-185 lbs is really fucking good. You might not be able to get that strong naturally, or it might take a lot of powerlifting specific training and...

@namakula If we're talking about bodybuilding, I just don't think training your biceps, quads, lateral delts, chest, triceps, etc. once per week is going to be the best way to program. There are some people who would do well training hamstrings or quads once per week, definitely. But, if your...

@activatedalmond You’re not losing weight and your question is, should I eat more to lose more weight? Just think about that on a basic logic level. Calculators aren’t always correct, it’s a rough estimate. Calorie counting is also an estimate, nobody does it perfectly. If your weight loss has...

@vakf It's one of those "between Scylla and Charybdis" situations. Bulk too fast, you have to stop bulking sooner and start dieting. Bulk too slowly, you might spend most of your time in maintenance or a deficit and gain less muscle because the statistical noise of weighing yourself exceeds...

@entropy82 False.

@basabeo These are not remotely accurate. Their error range is 10% on either end, so it's effectively useless. Doing walking on the treadmill is not going to cause muscle loss. If you did lose muscle, it's for some other reason.

@myalhussaini Why though?

@myalhussaini Muscles differ in recovery rate though, right? Full body doesn't mean you train every single muscle. You mix and match, could be legs once a week, biceps thrice, etc. And, you don't need to take every set to failure.

@americandeist Can you increase your hours for your work-study job? SNAP? Shop at a cheaper grocery store? Buy cheaper sources of protein and calories? Things like baking bread, etc. are insanely cheap. 5 lbs bag of flour is $2.50. That's 8000 calories of bread.

@kekeli You’re not necessarily calculating calories correctly either. How much do you weigh? Like 10%? I’m not totally certain, it wasn’t for a bodybuilding show or anything.

@darksoul999 I don't really understand why you would do that. The whole logic behind PPL or PLP is that you can train "pulling" when your "pushing" muscles are still sore from the previous day, etc. If you're training 3 days per week that's not an issue. You can train much more efficiently...

@kekeli I would stop trying to calculate your “calories burned” part of the equation. If you ate 2000 calories every day for two weeks, and your weight stays exactly the same, assume your maintenance is 2000 calories. Weigh yourself every morning and track steps per day. Track your gym...

@kekeli How did you calculate this?

@rochendil You don't want a cut to be so aggressive that your performance in the gym is notably going down. What I would do is seek out advice from people who observe ramadan while pursuing bodybuilding and what has worked for them.