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"Maintenance" means essentially what you said: the caloric intake necessary for you to maintain your current body composition, considering your current weight & activity level. So if you do cardio daily, you would want to count this toward your total caloric need; without...

You might want to take a second look at your weights; are you starting your mini-cycle too close to your 15RM weight?

Chronic caffeine user? Go with fish oil.

I don't think so. But if you're not getting a burn on your 15s weights normally, try the slow +/fast - cadence and you will. As for the partial OHP and hitting the medial delts, that's what I've been told & have found it to be true. It's suggested to only go down as far as forehead height...

#1. Have you tried doing slow concentrics & quick eccentrics on the lifts in the 15s? Something like a 3-0-1 rep speed will give you a burn. Credit to Edziu on this; I tried it and it works. #2. If you do shoulder press (particularly partials), Arnolds or other vertical presses you will...

Are you saying that at 15% BF and on a "bulking" diet, one would gain mostly fat? Please clarify!

OK, here's a really stupid question: Does a larger muscle/muscle group - like pecs, quad, back, etc. - tend to grow more quickly or more slowly than smaller muscles such as bicep/tricep, etc.? Or is there no real relationship between muscle group size & potential rate of growth - does it...

I will tell you that vanilla in water won't be as "tasty" as chocolate - just to warn you. I will mix mine in water or skim milk normally, & down it. It helps if you plug your nose/not breathe until you can eat or drink something else - I'm serious. Otherwise, I've done the...

Let me see if I have this: if you do an AM/PM split, and you would normally do 2 sets squats in a single workout, you do 2 sets in both the AM and PM workouts? If so, I thought it was that we weren't doubling the volume (like this is), we're just doubling the frequency, which means 1 set...

Do you eat prior to working out at that time??

Weren't selling anything; it was a blurb in Men's Health in their Fitness/Health section I believe.

What I gleaned from the above was: - partial militiaries (not going lower than top of head area) are better for isolating the lateral delts, and allow greater weight to be used - full ROM militaries will hit both lateral & anterior, but at different points in the lift - going below the head...

Read a magazine blurb recently that stated the effectiveness of creatine use begins to taper off as you get older, with about age 35-36 being the approx. point where the decline begins. This conclusion was based on a Univ. of Wisconsin review of 500 creatine supplementation studies. Thoughts...

To increase the effectiveness of doing the 5s at the same weight for an additional 2 weeks (if this is what you choose to do), add dropsets to your final work set of each exercise. What this means: say you are doing 2 work sets (those performed after warm-up, the "real" ones) of...

Anybody using proteinfactory.com & having them make up some custom blend, or one of their stock items?

Peanut butter.

It is a widely used protein supp. In fact, I just bought a 5 lb. jug of it. Tastes a little better than the GNC stuff I've been using. When it's gone I'll probably give the P & D a try.

I stand corrected; obviously I misunderstood the situation. That's good to know, for when the stuff I just got runs out.

Flax oil, evidently, is also negatively affected by caffeine whereas fish oil evidently is not.

Kate mentioned, in another topic Care to outline this Kate, puh-leeze?? I think I could benefit from this, as I have a shoulder that does some crackling & grinding & screams a little on the chest & shoulder work when it starts getting heavy. Thanks!