HIIT is like this

2 minutes of a fast walk pace
2 minutes of jog pace
30-45 seconds of a maximum intensity sprint

then repeat over and over until your total time is complete.

What's up RAY

I still have trouble feeling the squeeze in my chest when pressing, as I feel it all in my shoulders, for both inclined & flat, or BB and DB. I was thinking about the pre-exhausting technique, but I don't know if I should be pre-exhausting the shoulders or the chest in order to try to get a better squeeze in the chest and try to leave the shoulders out of the story.

Thanks!

Is Tilapia fish ok to eat?
I'm going to start alternating chicken/super lean ground turkey breast with brown rice

also my carbs come from these:

oatmeal
1/2 apple or orange
light and fit no fat greek yogurt
almonds
peanut butter
1 slice of whole grain bread
1/2 banana

should I not worry so much about my carbs being a bit over 150? mypalfitness says i can go up to 300g carbs but 200 is prob the max i would do (i usually never do tho)
considering most of those carbs are good carbs

This post was edited by Hboy on Mar 14 2014 06:35pm

can you recommend a good protein bar i could eat a few mornings for breakfast, even if i have to eat two of them. Recently i have been eating these oh yeah! bars. I dont like to eat the met-rx bars too much because of the ridiculous amounts of sugar. The rest i have seen from the places ive looked have a lot of soy protein in it.

also, many of the bars i have seen have "sugar alcohol" in it. I know nutritionally it is the same as sugar because its still listed as a carb, but what is the difference between sugar and sugar alcohol?

anyone here with a plant-based diet?

The major component here would be FORM.

Start with very light weight and focus on the form. Adjust your hands (distance), wrists, and torso (with regard to where the bar is lowered), until you find your own unique "sweet spot". Once you find the area that gives you the most pump in the chest, gradually increase the weight in that exact format, and go from there. 99 times out of 100, this solves the issue.

Pre-exhaustion with pushups usually also helps. Crank out 5 sets of 20-30 reps of pushups prior to hitting chest and see if that engages the muscles enough to start feeling a pump during bench and so forth.

Tilapia is a bottom feeder and generally not the safest in terms of chemical composition. Nutritionally they are fine, however.

As far as carbs...you can go up to 200, I don't really see an issue there if your body responds properly.

The three healthiest bars are the following:

VPX Zero Impact (pumpkin supreme)
Bionutritional Power Crunch (any flavor)
Quest Bars (any flavor)

all of those should have whey protein only and stevia as a sweetener.

I believe you are posting in the wrong section. This is NOT the general H&F section. This is a specialized sticky for requesting advice/plans/help from me.

If you require specialized assistance, please let me know exactly what you need and I'll be glad to help you.

If you are looking for general advice from H&F members, please post in the general section, and not this sticky.

Do you think fat gripz are worth using/spending 40$ on?

thanks friend.