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Nothing fundamentally or critically wrong with it. Variety helps with sticking to it though. You could make it more interesting by having microwave meals at work, from the better supermarkets. All ingredients are listed in case you want to avoid something. Plenty of them have great nutritional profiles, you just have to search carefully.

My philosophy on food selection, aside from the obvious (macros etc), is that you should enjoy life. A boring unvaried diet precludes this. And can result in desire to binge.

Other than that, maybe you have too much of a protein bias. More carbs and fats will help with satiety and a myriad of other things.

If anything, get some fibrous vegetables in. Buy a variety pack of broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, green beans or whatever (dirt cheap from Sainsbury's etc), plonk it in the microwave for a few minutes, and eat. The bulk will help keep you full up for much longer, without consuming many calories.
 
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I'm seriously going to do squats tomorrow on my leg day. I have a feeling I will suffer less knee pain if I do Sumo's?

Looking at what she's doing, I reckon I can do it, and the flair out of the legs, too me looks like it will take some of the weight off of the knee joint.

Something like this:

 
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Have you even posted a video yet?

Just squat man, I've never even heard of a sumo squat before...Unless you are able to push your knees out over your ankles in 'sumo' stance, you're just going to do more damage surely?
 
Delvis said:
Have you even posted a video yet?

Just squat man, I've never even heard of a sumo squat before...Unless you are able to push your knees out over your ankles in 'sumo' stance, you're just going to do more damage surely?
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Dunno. I tried doing some body weight ones at home, and it seemed tolerable.

I like the stance really. As it seems to offer more stability and the angle seems to take the weight of off the knees.
 
Dude, the weights above you regardless, 100kg is 100kg.

Just video yourself doing a bw squat and post it up, people have seen pics of you already so anonymity shouldn't be concerning you :p
 
No, that is a stupid idea. You probably have all sorts of flexibility issues as it is, as a sumo stance will require you to be able to push your knees outwards enough to enforce you're not torquing your knee in a weak position. Which you won't be able to do. As you don't even do the traditional "easy" squat yet.

Honestly, how many times, just do squats. And film it, so we can point out the mistakes you're making.
 
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I'm seriously going to do squats tomorrow on my leg day. I have a feeling I will suffer less knee pain if I do Sumo's?

Looking at what she's doing, I reckon I can do it, and the flair out of the legs, too me looks like it will take some of the weight off of the knee joint.

Something like this:

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I have no words.

Wtf
 
OK, I'll try some regular squats and see how they go. It's just I thought the sumo was actually easier and looked kinder on the knees.

Actually the thing that attracted me to the sumo, is if you look she is only going to parallel, which is about as deep as I can go.
 
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opethdisciple said:
OK, I'll try some regular squats and see how they go. It's just I thought the sumo was actually easier and looked kinder on the knees.
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Opeth...

Squats are only hard on the knees at two points:

1) At the top 1/4 of the lift, which is no different from the leg press (this is where the maximum force is applied to the joint);
2) whn going a fair bit below parallel, when the force goes onto the cruciate ligaments (psoterior).

Sure, done badly, they will put stress on the knees, but this is no different to a bench, shoulder press, t-bar row... etc.

A sumo squat is even more likely - looking at the video - to absolutely ruin your knees due to the apparently diagonal stresses put on the knee joint. DO NOT DO THESE.

But then, I doubt you will listen because I know I (and others) have told you this numerous times, and I know I have provided you with good evidence to support our explanations.

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OK. Regular squats. The position of the knees and feet. At shoulder width and slightly pointed out like this?

(Just to add regarding cruciate ligaments, you know I ruptured my ACL in my other leg right!)

 
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..................................................Please....Look in this very OcUK thread:

***Gym Exercise Guide, and Form Discussion/Feedback***

As well as this link within that thread:

A Guide To Better Squatting

You have the tools man. You have the people WILLING to put in their own personal spare time in to watching videos of you and writing out free and excellent advice which you would normally have to pay for. Do everything you're not doing!
 
Managed 30kg on the OHP today.

My target was 3x10, managed to get out 9,7,7.

Question. Rather than stopping after completing my 9,7,7 reps and moving on to next exercise, I decided to do a 4th set to make up for the 7 reps I was short, and managed a further 5 reps.

This is perfectly fine right? Nothing wrong with it?
 
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