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Are barbell or body weight exercises better at preparing me to read forum threads where people argue at cross-purposes?

Strength training programs (e.g. 5x5) are often designed that you don't reach muscle failure. For those programs free weights make a lot more sense than machines. McGuff doesn't dispute this, and my...

That's a very black and white view. Doug McGuff (Body By Science), where this info seems to be adapted from has spoken about equipment with a bit more nuance. He's not opposed to free weights in many...

Are you saying muscular failure under free weights is safe, or that there's no point to reaching muscular failure?

So you can do 1 set of 36 pushups? Why not do that, then rest a minute, try for another 20. Rest another minute try again. Add sets to add volume. You should be able to bring the rest down or...

Only way to know for sure is to try it. My guess would be that if you set out with a decent amount of glycogen you'll be fine. Meaning, if you're 30 hours into a fast, and before fasting you did a...

About 3½ weeks ago I strained a tendon where the bicep comes into the elbow. It was fairly painful doing day to day stuff and I even avoided carrying general objects in that arm.

It's recovered...

Sprinting is cardio. You cannot run fast without your CV system being very involved.

If you mean "Chronic Cardio" I consider that to be at a point where you're doing more harm than good. Here's a...

Magicmerl I think the OP means a strength plateau, not a weight loss one.

King of Turtles what do you mean by 45 and 35?

Good idea, my core strength needs some maintenance.

I did 3m:10s this afternoon.

I'll try to get that up to 5 minutes.

If it's something you really want to do, then do it. I don't think a single marathon when you're 29* will do too much damage.
If you were starting from a low level of fitness or you wanted to do...

Mark imagine you were thinking of joining CrossFit for the first time now and talking to your future self about it.
Here's how I see the conversation going:

Mark: I'm thinking of starting...

I'd still like some anthropological evidence on whether or not Grok started counting his 10 seconds rest as soon as he stopped ;)

With Tabata sprints, do people tend to wait until they come to a stop before starting the count of 10 seconds rest?
I ask because at that speed it takes me about 3 seconds to stop and I don't want...

Glycogen doesn't "run around the body" — it's glucose (sugar) stored in the muscle and liver. I guess it can move from the liver to the blood stream, but in this context we're talking more about the...

I think the idea is that post-workout the carbohydrate is more likely to replace muscle glycogen and get stored in a useful way. Pre-workout you may already have near-full glycogen stores and fat...

I wonder what your heart rate monitor considers the threshold for "redline"?
Also how, is your fitness? Averaging 169bpm for ~20km/h seems high, unless it was hilly territory. Although I'm not a...

Give blood and ask for your haemoglobin level (I'm assuming they check that when donating wherever you are).
Better than guessing.

No one's asked if you live somewhere cold or hot. That might make a difference.

Takes me roughly 45 minutes with warm ups, just over 60 seconds between sets, and wrangling weights to set up each exercise.

I think Pareto's Principal is unrelated to the 80/20 rule of the Primal Blueprint. They both happen to involve the figure "80%", but as you said the principal is different. The PB allowance is...

Was that super expensive Coles stuff organic? If so, I think that's where the price tag would come from (over the grass fed factor).

Both are about eating with an eye to ancestral foods, predominantly pre agriculture. The exclusion of grains and legumes is common to both. Dairy is an "it depends" and generally more accepted on a...

Hydration, magnesium, potassium perhaps.
He might be dehydrated if he didn't replace all that wine with some water. Also it seems that his training schedule might be too much to allow for muscle...

Body weight isn't normally incorporated into the measurements of the weights you lift.
It's true squatting with 20lb of dumbells will be easier if your upper body becomes lighter over time, but I...