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@rawscot P.s. you might find this video helpful. "How to get fit in your 30s (the easy way): I'm not affiliated with this guy at all, but I just thought it was a nice distillation of the points I was trying to make earlier.

@hopeandgrace Thanks! Yeah it's been a huge lesson for me, but it's slowly getting there.

@rawscot There are a million ways to diet and exercise, first of all. And all of them work. Really, basically all of them work. Keto, paleo, atkins, weightwatchers, P90x, insanity, Starting Strength, regular old sport, swimming, just cutting out the snacks, flexible dieting, intermittent...

@miab Haha. I think it's not a bad way to introduce someone to training for a month or two.

@wally1648 It's a sample, and you may find this is overkill. But the general idea is you want to grease the groove between having not squatted to squatting at your max weight.

@lorna1964 So basically no time at all? I think the fix here is to maybe moderate your expectations. Do yoga for 3-6 months consistently and see if it's still not working.

@wally1648 I think that's not a great warmup, honestly. Think about it. You're doing a bunch of opener exercises, which is ok, but not specific to heavy squats. Then you're donng a bunch of light squats at high volume. Then you're straight into your maximal load working sets. At what point are...

@dawn16 Yeah. I'm not afraid to bulk but I am just not as consistent with eating as I should be. I have the opposite problem most people have: I eat well during the week but then on the weekend I somehow eat less, and lose weight again.

@wally1648 I used to get injured a lot more. Here were my issues, do any of these apply to you? Ineffective/irrelevant warmup. The amount of time or intensity you apply to your warmup matters less than how specific and incremental it is. Good warmup: take time to very incrementally increase...

Mildly NSFW Pics (partial nudity). Terrible MSPaint skills. Stats: Age: 35 Height: 6ft1 Weight: 175lbs > 185lbs Squat: 45lbs > 260lbs Bench: 45lbs > 175lbs Deadlift: 130lbs > 440lbs I lift 4x a week, basically a PHUL type program (main compound lift followed by accessories). I have no...

@donald89stevenson My advice to you would be to not get too fixated on developing a perfect program *for now*. You are an absolute beginner, and while a lot of people will tell you that this means you should focus on maximising your noob gains with a carefully curated program, I really think...

@leeza I also like that he prefaced this with the disclaimer that this is exactly the opposite advice newbies should take.

@honu You gave really good advice here but I also think if the elliptical at the gym is the one way he likes to exercise, that gym membership is definitely worth it. When I was more out of shape I hated running outside - I thought everyone was staring at me - so I used the treadmill at the gym...

@principatus Choose your training split based on what you can realistically do, not what you can optimally do. If you only have 3 days a week to train, choose a 3 day plan. PPL only really works as a 6 day plan.

@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...