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Home Bodyrecomposition Articles Announcements Dogs Fat loss Muscle gain Nutrition Research Review Training Women Miscellany Shop Consultations Contact AHS Bipolar Home Bodyrecomposition Articles Announcements Dogs Fat loss Muscle gain Nutrition Research Review Training Women Miscellany Shop Consultations Contact AHS Bipolar Posted on July 7, 2021 November 8, 2021 by lylemcd A 6 and a Half Tip Guide to a Great First Powerlifting Meet As the sport of powerlifting continues to grow and grow, I am seeing more and more people ask questions regarding their first powerlifting meet. Often they will describe how they intend to approach it. Often the ideas, approach or goals that they list are far from ideal, almost guaranteeing a bad experience. Do Your Own Research” That’s not meant to be as critical as it sounds. You can’t know what you can’t know and I imagine most readers of my site know how I feel about the wholedo your own research ” thing. Mind you, powerlifting arguably has more good information on the web available than many other activities. It certainly does compared to things like bodybuilding/physique sports or general fat loss. I think the reason is that powerlifting is an objective thing. What you did either worked or it didn’t. You either improved or your didn’t and there isn’t any of this Well I think this worked” nonsense to it. The lift went or it didn’t go and that’s all there is to it. And there is quite a bit of information for beginners in terms of doing their first powerlifting meet. A lot of it deals with the endless details. Lifters can find checklists of everything they need to take, what to eat, etc. Honestly, I recommend taking a book especially as a spectator. As much as I love the sport of powerlifting, I think it’s dull as dirt to watch. Even when I’m handling my lifter, it’s a lot of sitting around doing nothing for only a little bit of action. Don’t get me wrong, I love watching big lifts, watching lifters grind through something they should have missed. It’s doing it for 8 hours that exhausts me. Anyhow. Take a book is what I’m saying. Continue reading A 6 and a Half Tip Guide to a Great First Powerlifting Meet Category: Powerlifting Posts navigation 1 2 … 399 Next Search Search Succeeding to Fail: Part 1 Instead, I am going to followup on the original series on muscular failure and look at people who succeeded at failing. That is, I’m going to start running videos to muscular failure from the people that had the nuts to step up and send them to me. […] Succeeding to Fail: Part 2 […] What Are the Real Essential Fatty Acids? For nearly a century now, we thought we knew what the essential fatty acids were, linolenic acid and alpha-linoleic acid. I’ve written it in my books and in various articles as have many others. As so often happens in science, with new data comes new models. Because it looks like we may have been wrong about what the real essential fats are. […] Protein Requirements and Connective Tissue The most recent piece I wrote on the topic addressed a current idea in field where maximal per meal protein intake is about 0.25 g/lb (about 0.55 g/kg). This is based on research showing that this amount of protein maximizes MUSCULAR PROTEIN SYNTHESIS. This is assumed to represent the optimal protein requirement for growth. […] Is Fasted Cardio Useless for Fat Loss: Part 2 The study took 20 women who reported performing aerobic activity several times per week. The paper states that several were off-season track and field athletes” but no indication is given of how many it was. I mean, I take several to mean more than one but less than a few. Maybe 3? Four? I have no idea and it seems like saying three were off-season…” would have been easy. […] Is Fasted Cardio Useless for Fat Loss? Fasted cardio refers to the idea of doing aerobic activity first thing in the morning after an overnight fast” (i.e. not having eaten for some period of time, perhaps 10-12 hours). Hence fasted cardio. This is not a new idea although I couldn’t tell you when it really came into vogue in the fitness realm. When I first got interested in fitness and training in the mid 80’s or so it was already an accepted part of contest prep and I suspect the idea was around long before that. […] Another Look at FFMI: Part 3 I mentioned in Part 2 that all FFM is not skeletal muscle. Rather, FFM includes water, glycogen, minerals, bone and organs with skeletal muscle typically making up ~45% of total muscle for men or so and a little less for women due to having higher organ mass. And at the end of the day when we talk about the idea of an FFMI cutoff in terms of being natural or not, what we are really talking about is a limit to how much MUSCLE MASS can be gained naturally. 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