Quote (SKCRaynor @ Jun 26 2011 04:15am)

Hey there.

Get the 5,000 iu.

The human body can handle upwards of 15,000 iu of vitamin d per day without ANY potential negative effects.

However, you want to shoot for around 5-6K per day for maintaining overall health and so forth.

I usually take 5,000 iu + OT + food + sunlight per day.

Quote (SKCRaynor @ Jun 26 2011 04:19am)

First of all, Darkblue, please do NOT reply to other people's questions in here...thanks for understanding.

Quote (SKCRaynor @ Jun 26 2011 08:24am)

You made those gains in 2 months and 2 weeks? Are you kidding me? If not...those are EPIC gains. That is a HUGE improvement for such a short period of time on so many lifts. There is a very easy way to detect muscle increases. Take your bodyfat % before and after. In other words, take your body fat % today along with your body weight. Then in say...4 weeks, take the body fat % and weight again. Each time you will subtract the % of bf from your total weight...to get your lean mass...example....170 lbs at 10% bf = 17 lbs of fat total. Lean mass would be 170-17 = 153 lbs. Then assume 4 weeks later you were 12% bf at 200 lbs. That would mean...12% of 200 = 24 lbs....200 - 24 = 176 lbs lean mass. So technically the total weight of lean mass increased by 23 lbs. Unfortunately, lean mass INCLUDES water in this test. There is really no way to avoid that...but still, that is as good as you'll need.

Quote (lepInTheHood @ Jun 26 2011 07:06am)

reAR delt flies on shoulder or back day?

Quote (Darkblue @ Jun 26 2011 10:12am)

Okay cool, would you deem blood work at all necessary. I heard that you should try and shoot for a certain number in blood... 60-70 ng/ml of 25-hydroxy vitamin D, to be more precise.

Oh, and also should I be taking Calcium along with it. I don't have a hell of a lot of it in my diet and I don't drink milk (cuz it's for babies ofc) so should I pop a couple of calcium pills (we already have some..300mg/tab)



My bad...

Quote (Websters @ Jun 26 2011 11:34am)

Yeah ive had some pretty good motivation for lifting haha, that piled with beginner gains and having an athletic background really helped me out. And what would be an easy way to get BF %? Calipers would be the most convenient i assume but how accurate would you say they are?

Quote (Gosu @ Jun 26 2011 11:59am)

hey
should i avoid saccharin (fake sugar) or can i take it to sweeten my coffee/ tea without a bad feeling?
it has basically zero cals, fat, sugar, carbs... in mens health i read it confuses ur body cuz of its sweetnes without calories?
is it bad? thanks

Quote (SyB_BaM @ Jun 26 2011 12:58pm)

Hey again, Raynor!

Regarding the 5x5 strenght plan -

I should go up 5% on every 5x5 lift every week, this is with all 5 set I add 5% more weight too right, not only the last? ^^

Just so I got this right!

Thanks in advance!