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  1. When I started lifting I tried to lose weight also. I tried the 5x5 routine and I have to say that I only felt frustrated with it since I made no progress due to fact that I was eating too little. Now I am around 226 lbs and been steadily eating A LOT of food. After reading this topic I think I'm going to give the routine a new chance since I think i screwed it up in the first place because of poor amount of food. What I am trying to say is that I don't suggest this routine if your goal is to lose weight. This is only based on my personal experience, but there you have it.
  2. Deadlifts are a great way to destroy your back when not executed properly. If you want to focus on your back only then I suggest doing deadlifts off the the rack and starting from the knee position. I guess there's a proper name for this exercise, maybe someone with more extensive vocabulary can tell it. Anyway, I enjoy doing this exercise very much. While I love this one, I haven't done actual deadlifts off the floor in a long time. I can concentrate on my form better on this one.
  3. I forgot to mention that I took a week off from doing any isolating shoulder work in order to give the shoulder time to recover.
  4. Since I threw that second chest day in, I divide them pretty much like this: Chest day 1: 3 sets 4-6 reps on flat bench Chest day 2: 4 sets 5-7 reps with dbs on incline I am always monitoring my work outs and quite likely going to change that day one into 2 sets of 4-6 reps and 2 sets of 8-10 reps.
  5. I have also some shoulder problems and here is what I did. I guess I should mention that I have never dislocated my shoulder, never had it operated or anything like that. It just got really really sore and I knew I had to change something. Here we go: - I moved my arm around to see in which position the pain would occur. When I lifted my arm to front over the shoulder line the pain would start. Anything else, nothing. That was the only position that would make it hurt. - I went through my shoulder excercises. Since the pain occured while lifting to front I was pretty sure that front cable raise was causing it. Even before the pain started I had a feeling that this excercise did not suit me. - I gave up said excercise. It´s been three weeks and my shoulder feels good. It doesn't get sore while benching and I started to do military press as a main shoulder excercise. Seems that it is still healing but it doesn't hurt anymore after working out.
  6. Thanks everyone. I am not injury prone, I have always been very focused on the form to avoid all potential injuries and have survived well. My shoulders have given me some grief lately, but I am pretty sure that those fancy machines are to blame. I am throwing in some extra bench stuff and military presses that I have kinda neglected. Let's get big.
  7. The thing is that while I am making good progress I still feel that my pecs could be more...well meaty. I train my chest once a week, bench press, incline with dumbells and I train hard. Yesterday I was checking out Glenn Danzig´s routine and he trains or did train chest twice a week. I like the way he looked and his physique is a huge motivator. Anyway, I thought I could throw in one extra workout that only focuses on the chest. If I do this that means I will do chest training every fourth or fifth day. Of course if I don't recover then I have to come up with something else. Anyone have any thoughts? Has somebody tried something similar?
  8. I also recommend not eating nuts before workout. Personally I don't eat anything right before working out. Altough carbs give you energy it is also possible that you may experience a crash and burn situation while working out when your sugar levels come down. Also note that there is difference between being hungry and feeling hungry. If you don't feel specific need to eat before your workout then simply just don't do it. You should run the workout through with the energy you've collected from that day's nutrition, not going without food the whole day and hit a energy peak just before going to the gym. That's my two cents.
  9. I see, I just boil mine so that way there is no excess fat. Occasionally if I have leftover potatoes is fry them with onions and pretty much everything that I find in the fridge.
  10. I think that that is the key thing here. As for potatoes, in Finland we eat loads of potatoes and with all this fast food crap, they are still held as one of the foods that people must eat. I eat potatoes quite often and I think they are great food. And it's hard for me to see that someone would be capable of eating themselves fat off of potatoes.
  11. I myself was and guess still am quite skeptic about fat burner supplements. Anyway I bought creatine that has "fat burning" effect. I didn't buy the creatine because of this, but decided what the hell. Yesterday I scaled myself and I've lost around four pounds. Now I'll give you some backround info and you can tell me whether or not the fat burners actually did their trick. Till this day I've only taken it pre work out. 1. I bought the creatine four weeks ago. 2. During these four weeks I've had nine straight days off and no creatine that time. 3. I've been on a diet less than three months and have lost weight successfully little by little. I haven't done more cardio than before and basically my weekly routines have been the same. So are they working or did I actually loose four pounds because of the diet? If you have experiences with fat burners, please do share. I am not interested in pro - con debate, only in actual experiences.
  12. If I don't take my B-multi vitamin the sides of my mouth start crack in no time. In Finland the B12 injection is not uncommon at all, I think it charges your B12 levels. I haven't tried it though, no needles near me please.
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