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right, I just try not to overdo the artificial sweeteners because they can't be good for you in huge amounts. Aztecwolf: yeah, I'm 6'2" and 22, so it seems we're fairly similar. I am trying to keep to 40/40/20, but sometimes I end up eating too much protein I think, that might be why I'm not...

Thanks Lam, I value the opinion of someone with your pics! I read about this stuff voraciously, and try to do things as perfectly as I can...lean meats, healthy fats, slow carbs and you should see my vegetable servings!!! I think I may have to use a second plate. I'm out of flax oil at the...

No easy way to tell you this mate, but I think alcohol hurts your potential gains. Empty calories and sugar in the beer, and I've read that alcohol binds to protein in the blood and prevents its use for muscle-building.

I'm trying to put on around 20lbs lbm in the next 6 months or so. Thing is, I'm at 165lb at the moment, and I haven't really been seeing an increase in weight, I started at 2200 calories (way too low, lost weight in the beginning...inadvertently cut while I tried to bulk... but it's ok I...

Nuts are complete protein sources aren't they?

Well, put it this way, I generally aim to have 35 - 55 g of complete protein in every meal. So I ignore incomplete proteins when it comes to that, but I will include the calories from those incomplete proteins. This seems to me the most sensible way to go about it,

thanks atherjen, I figured this was the case, and no I never rely on them solely (ouch that would be a lot of carbs ;) ) cheese, milk and dairy products are complete though aren't they?

For these types of products, is the protein actually of good enough quality to be included in protein count? i.e. I know it should obviously be counted calorifically, but if I'm trying to say, get 43g of good quality, highly available and useful protein in a meal, should I be including that...

Get serious man, no McD's ever (or at least extremely infrequently, but it may as well be never). Find healthy foods that you love, that way you never have to cheat.

hah 2 reasons.. 1) because it was a home-made mexican chili chicken recipe and I wanted to log the ingredients 2) because I'm anal! ;)

lol, I thought of that when I typed it... c'mon people, post your meals! :)

I'd be interested to read other people's fitday entries and compare them with mine, based on our specific goals. I don't know if other food tracking software can allow public access, but all are welcome. If there are enough people who do it, it might be interesting to compare our approaches...

Ideally I would be doing a M/W/F split but it's a little hard right now what with my thesis work. Plus I read some mike mentzer stuff and figured a little extra recovery time might be good. I hear what you're saying about shock tactics, but just intuitively I feel I shock enough with the...

sure, 9 days before they are specifically targetted (and blasted) again, but bear in mind they do see some action so to speak every workout just from the compound exercises etc.

heh, well, actually the number of reps on the back workouts have been going down as well, at least, except for my starting exercise which has increased in weight - the bent one arm dbell row. fyi, it usually goes: Bent one arm row: 3 x 8 @ 24kg Incline Reverse Flyes: 3 x 8 @ 7kg Wide grip...

I actually have complete logs of all workouts in the current 8 cycle block if that would help? (Have to go home before I can post it though).

Just before I started the current workout, I took a full week off. So that is around 6-7 weeks ago. I was planning to take another off after the 8th week/cycle of the current workout.... maybe going back to a M/W/F split for the last 2 cycles. Then I was thinking about doing a HIT full...

Hi guys, I'm on about the 6th week/cycle of my current workout. For about the first 4 weeks I was doing M/W/F split, chest/tris/abs, back/bis/cardio, shoulders/legs/abs. Then for the last few cycles, I went to a 1 day on, 2 day off 9 day cycle instead, to see if the extra recovery...

I have a bowl of cooked rolled oats every night before bed with a casein shake in skim milk, and some efa's/PB. I'm bulking, and I figure the body needs carbs to provide the energy for muscle-building. I sometimes go to bed feeling a little fat from the carb bloat, but I always wake up lean...

According to Mike Mentzer dropsets are a waste of time, because they increase the recovery time necessary without stimulating muscle growth ?