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Eating healthy has to just become how you eat most of the time. Exercise has to become a habitual thing you do every day or two, like mowing the lawn or taking out the trash. Yes! Yes! Yes! This is the key, "the secret," to fitness.
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"I want to tell them how awesome it is that they are doing it, but am never sure if that's the right thing to do some stranger lol." General heuristic: If you are not sure, if it is right to approach a stranger, just do it. Really. Talk to them next time. And don't end your sentences with "lol", please.
I go back and forth on things like lol. It's hard to convey in writing when something should be take lightly or as a joke. Without the standard facial cues of smiling it's easy to take something the wrong way. And in general your heuristic is correct, but the gym is an odd place. I'm pretty social, but would prefer no one talk to me while working out. I'm usually so busy watching the clock and focusing on the task at…
(I fear that all the image-substitution of smilies will create a generation of internet users that can't read the original ascii ones...)
How much does smoking pot affect your health and fitness? Is it in same category as bad food (i.e. you can smoke a joint a couple times a week and get away with it) or is it worse?
How much does smoking pot affect your health and fitness? Is it in same category as bad food (i.e. you can smoke a joint a couple times a week and get away with it) or is it worse?
Weed's good friend alcohol gets a brief mention in the article, but it doesn't say how much the drug itself affects your fitness. It only says that many alcoholic drinks are bad for you because they have high calories from the sugar and alcohol.
For some people, especially college students like me, weed and alcohol are part of their lifestyle. Yes, they're bad for you, but my question is how bad?
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I also got the "Starting Strength" book. It's very thorough on the technique of all the basic lifts (squat, bench press, deadlift, overhead press, power clean). It doesn't they very much about programming (i.e. how to and how much to increase the weights you lift), but you can get advise on these from other sources.
Rippetoe has a book titled 'Practical Programming for Strength Training'. It's good as well.
If you're interested in protein supplements in the UK I recommend MyProtein. I'm not affiliated with them, but I am a very happy customer.
"TrueProtein sells among the cheapest and also highest quality protein powders."
I thought it would be helpful for UK readers to have an alternative to the USA based TrueProtein.
I've been downmodded for the comment (at the time of writing) so if company endorsement is inappropriate here could someone please let me know?