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Quote from: RJ Nelsen on July 19, 2011, 06:29:43 pm

Hahahaha!

No clue. I can power snatch bodyweight like it was an empty bar though. That counts for something, right?

Any idea why the hang variants are so difficult vs the ones from the floor. In the hang powerclean I find so hard to use my hips to execute the lift that when the bar slides into the power position (which feels weird for me by the way) I usually push the bar up with the lower portion of my quads (where the bar rests in the power position) so I actually to a hip flexing activity to initiate the lift and then jump and extend (somewhat).

Where do you need the flexibility? Glute med?

What I hate about stretching stuff is that it takes decades to do. Millions of years to do millions of stretching so it gets annoying and I ditch it.

A diet consisting of grass-fed beef, lamb, or other red meat, fruits and vegetables, dark leafy greens, seaweeds, sprouts, and other healthy foods you can think of, increase your metabolism more than a diet consisting of oreos, twinkies, donuts, english  muffins, white bread, sugar, and muffins, and take out chinese

Quote from: Avishek on July 09, 2011, 11:42:19 pm

Quote from: JC on July 09, 2011, 06:03:01 pm

Did that one dude just say you get fat from not eating? How does your body make the fat?

Your metabolism slowing down is the biggest myth in dieting. If it slowed down because you don't eat a lot, why wouldn't it speed up when you ate too much?

Calories In-Calories out. That's the only factor in terms of weight gain/loss (sure, for muscle gains and fat loss it's more complicated than that, but you cannot gain weight if you burn more calories than you put it, and you can't lose weight if you eat more than you burn).

Hormones are a lot more important. You cannot gain weight if calories in less than calories out, but you can gain FAT in the wrong places, visceral fat especially.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpuRcmPnSTM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpuRcmPnSTM</a>

Let's see a picture of you shirtless (no homo), and compare it to me. I bulk with 5000 calories and have cut with big deficits (sometimes keto). Let's see who looks better. Eating "until you're satisfied" is why most of America is overweight. Your body might burn muscle for energy, but it will never burn muscle to store it as fat. That doesn't make any sense. It burns the muscle because it needs the energy now.


3000 calories of fat and sugar doesn't make you weigh more than 3000 calories of protein (not taking thermal effects into effect).

You're retarded so I'm not going to respond to anything else you said. The fact that you think fat and sugar makes you fat, and not the excess calories, shows you have no idea what you're talking about.

Quote from: DamienZ on July 10, 2011, 04:19:39 am

You disqualified yourself by mentioning Gary Taubes!

goodbye!

I don't know a lot about nutritional things. But I had thought about buying his book someday out of interest for the topic. You seem to think it is a bad resource. Can you tell me why and maybe offer an alternative to get into this topic?

It is very complicated. Simple people in the fitness industry believe in the simplicity of exercise more eat less. What I'm arguing is that it's terrible advice, which it is, since it fails to produce long term health or long term weight loss, simplest reason being stress. Discipline is irrelevant, it's about where to direct that discipline. Try getting people to lose weight with this bullshit then get back to me

Edit: There are plenty of people with discipline who get fat because they over-rationalize what to eat instead of listening to their body. Bodybuiders, and low carb dieters are the best example. Perhaps take a look at the links I sent, or remain stupid like the Americans you accuse of being.

Rants aren't good in any scientific category of study because they close the mind, and hinder rational processes. This is some terrible health advice, and won't work in the long term.

"If you consume less calories than you require every day, your body will pull the extra calories it needs from the stored fat on your body. Conversely, if you consume more calories than you need, your body stores those calories as fat. It really is that simple."

-Not it's not. Unfortunately eating less only works in the short term, and makes you fatter in the long term, unless eating less was arrived at by switching calories to whole foods entirely.

" A salad with lettuce, tomato, bell peppers, avacado, mushrooms, and topped with a grilled chicken breast is high in protein, fiber, and vitamins."

-That's a good meal if you want to lose weight, I won't deny that. But in the long term, it will have consequences on your metabolism, starting with less thyroid hormone, less T4 to T3 conversion. How many people out there are fat from eating clean foods? The only way I could get really fat eating 100% whole foods is if I ate a lot of fat and carbs with every single meal. I'd feel sick though very shortly.

"You may still be eating too much. Little snacks throughout the day can add up. Make sure you're not sabatoging yourself by eating high calorie snacks in between meals because you're hungry. If you need a snack, have something like celery with a little peanut butter, or an apple or other fruit."

-Again, starvation works in the short term, because of an adrenaline high. THe body will quickly become insensitive to adrenaline and start to feel terrible. Check out 180degreehealth.blogspot.com, Matt Stone has worked with a lot of people who have followed simple health advice like this, only to get fatter and less healthy.

Since I don't believe in the efficacy of ranting, I won't rant. But I will say the 2nd half of the article is better. Sticking with it is good advice, although somewhat obvious. Sticking with a low calorie diet though, is badd mainstream advice that should not be followed.

I know the author has good intentions, but this type of advice has truly destroyed many people's health. If you're weight lifting and training for VJ, the last thing you want to do is eat less. It's how I made no gains for like 2 years, and overtrained the whole time