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That's REAL Hershey's Dark Cocoa for you, Aron... and lots of it. The genuine stuff is extremely dry, and thus attracts water like a sponge. That is where the "clumps" come from when trying to mix it with a spoon. Now, we could use an artificial chemical chocolate flavoring, or a cheap ge...

Try doing these Egoscue exercises as well. I have a bulging disc in my lower back and they help me tremendously...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqNnmC09eUU

I bought a case of MASS PRO Whey, chocolate, vanilla, and berries & creme flavors. The vanilla and berries & creme mix very easily with a spoon, but no matter what I do, the chocolate mixes absolutely horribly and I end up with big chunks floating at the top, sticking to the sides, and stick...

I could be wrong, but the more I think about this the more I think that setting a daily caloric value based on whether that day actually contains a workout seems like it might be more optimal than using a weekly baseline and going from there. I think a cutting zig-zag is a better example. If I use a...

dropthebeats wrote:Katch-McArdle Equation is pretty close. It will get you about, if not exactly, where you need to be. And you do have to go a whole week of testing.

It has me at 2330 at sedentary, so that's almost exactly what I was using on my non-workout days for my true maintenance.

Thanks for the responses, guys. I'm surprised that you find the way I did it to be odd. I thought it made a lot of sense. I work from home, so on days that I don't exercise, I'm literally sedentary. I tried a few online calorie calculators to arrive at the 2300 number for those days. I use a calorie...

My maintenance calories are about 2300 on non-workout days and 2800 on workout days. If I'm doing a caloric zig-zag from BP 3.0, say 120% of maintenance on training days and 100% on non-training days, do I take the exercise into account in calculating the 120%, or is that what the extra 20% is alrea...

I came across this awesome article in the Journal of Insect Science about ecdy and it's loaded with valuable information:

https://www.insectscience.org/3.7/Lafont ... 7_2003.pdf

Maybe you guys have already seen it, but wanted to share for those who haven't.

I'm honestly not sure if you do a cruise in the middle of the two phases, but you definitely do at the end. Rob.. help? Oh - and GLP 1 and 2 can be done within the same Feast period, its when you get into the Russian and 10% that it gets ridic long. Thanks beefcake. Should I take a week off in betw...

Sorry for the bump, but didn't get a response to my last post and I'm planning out my BP run to start in a couple weeks so I want to get this stuff nailed down. Is this how it goes? Famine Feast & bridge to establish 1RM Feast & GLP1 1 week rest? Feast/cruise/famine? Feast & GLP2 Cruise ...

Ok, I asked Rob on FB and he told me that after the 5 workouts I would plug that into GLP1, take a week off, then plug that into GLP2, take a week off etc...until I go through all 4 phases. Seems like a ton of work; I'll end up in feast for a lot longer than I probably should. Thoughts? There's als...

My understanding is that the Periodic is meant to be used during the feast phase. Also, that the Periodic is tailored more for strength gains than size gains.

Please, somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

I had pretty much the same question, as I'd like to bulk, so thanks for the answers, I'll do 2.0 to start.

So here are my other questions:
1. Should I jump straight into the Blueprint Periodic?
2. Should I incorporate SCT into BP 2.0?