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The situation just got a lot worse. I woke up this morning feeling fine in my lower back area, deciding that the pain last week was just soreness that had gone away. Today is squat day (something that I haven't done since deadlift day last week, I skipped them because of the soreness) and on...

I like that site. It has good information and doesn't present any bullshit, it gets right to the point.

In the first few days after the workout, I could barely bend over without feeling pain all around my lower back. It's been getting better every day, as I pretty much only feel any pain/soreness now when I'm bending my upper body to about 90 degrees (which was practically impossible a week ago)...

Hey guys I'm 18, weigh around 170lbs and last week I started a set program (I'm not sure what to call it) my friend used to do to gain strength for football. It consists of doing 5 reps of an exercise (bench, squat, deadlift) at 65% of your 1RM, then 3 reps at 75%, 3 reps at 80%, 2 reps at 85%...

My workout schedule this week was all messed up, so I had to do my squat day right after my deadlift day. Ohh boy are my legs sore today, and it's only going to get worse. :D

I'm not entirely sure, don't abs start to show themselves at around 12-13% bodyfat? I'm definitely not anywhere near that point, as almost all of my fat is around the belly/love handles area. Going off of this set of pictures, I'd say that I look most like the 3rd picture down. I definitely...

I'm currently around 176lbs I think and I'm 5'8". I say 'I think' because I don't have a scale at my house at the moment, so I just measure my weight at the gym after workouts. It seemed that the tests that required more measurements (and not just my waist and neck etc.) would generally give me...

Do a couple of sets of pull-ups while holding onto a towel thrown over the bar. Works your forearms real good, and improves your grip by quite a bit :thumb:

Hey guys, I've been trying to find my body fat percentage with a tape measure, but all the calculators I've found have been wildly inconsistent with each other. One test said I have 13% BF (which I know isn't true) and another has said I have 27.8% (which I sure hope isn't true), and others...

I can definitely vouch for this. Bulgarian Split Squats are some of the most painful exercises I've done in the weight room.

Hey guys, I just recently changed up my routine because I decided that since I've been bulking for about a year, I want to start cutting for a little bit. The routine goes as such: 5 Min Cardio (All that follows is in one superset) Squats - 8 reps Pull ups - 8 reps Calf raises - 12 reps Bench...

Because I'm kind of in between routines right now. I'm just doing Built's basic whole body workout. No, its just way back when I first looked at Built's guide it said to do goblets if you had bad form etc on back squats, and I was just reverting to that workout. I'll start up back squats again...

Like I said, I don't do that routine anymore, for about 2 weeks I've just been doing a basic full body workout 3 times a week. Thanks for the other tips though, currently I've ditched heavy squatting and am only doing the goblet squats. Should I go back to higher weight regular squats?

Hey guys, I don't do a lot of posting here, but I do read through the forums quite often. Here's a short version of my story. I started trying to improve my bench 1RM back in about August. Before that, I had been doing the basic push/pull workout suggested here for a few months prior. I used a...

Is there any way to determine that your not getting enough calories? My weight has been sitting at 160 for probably almost a year now, though I've only been weight training the past 5-6 months. I drink a protein shake mixed with milk after my workouts (every Tues, Thurs, Sunday), but that's...