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@judee Rippetoe is an interesting force in the fitness world. On one hand, the guy is responsible for getting a lot of people with severe fuckarounditis to just get under the bar, including getting old people out of the zimmerframe. And on the other hand, is any person more responsible for...

@uzezi the toning thing seems to persist particularly in women's fitness forums, it seems. I can understand psychologically what people mean by it. They want to have slim muscles that are not too lean, not too bulky. They want to have that hot yoga teacher look, that kind of thing. But yeah...

@dausman23 Check out r/strongcurves. Worth knowing that there is no such thing as toning. You put on muscle or you drop fat, thats all there is to it. You can control where you put on muscle, but where you lose/gain fat is up to your genetics.

@redeemedsinner Alan Thrall made a really good video on this, if you're interested. He's a guy for whom training is his entire profession and livelihood, and even he found training hard to slot in. Ultimately he had to abandom the conventional "im driving to the gym and be back in 3 hours" route...

@martina777 I find the hardest thing to get right (and also the most important) is making sure you try to ease back in, rather than jump back in with two feet. At your old fitness level, let's say you could do 20 hard sets per session. So you reasonable conclude, "ok I'm back at the gym, 20...

@nic976 It's important not to just factor in how heavy you're lifting but overall volume. The simplest way is just to look at your sets, reps and weight and add it all up. Not the most perfect but it gives you a general idea. So 5 sets of 5 reps at 100lbs = 5x5x100 = 2,500 Would be roughly...

@nic976 The best thing is to get in an overall protein target every day, and then to space that intake out evenly throughout the day, perhaps in 4 meals. The overall amount you take is by far more important than specific timing. I.e. in your scenario I would be aiming for around 170grams of...