Dixie Normus

I’m not sure if it’s my neck or the top of my back technically, but I keep having this recurring issue where I get a crick-like pain on either side of my spine right below my trap. There’s no specific exercise that triggers it, today it was squats. It’s really getting frustrating because it’s not e...

Instagram is largely responsible for the pickup in fitness related activities nowadays but is more harmful to fitness than it is helpful. It gives people unreal expectations and bogus “plans” to get people fit, when in reality the people are either juicing or doing something totally different than ...

New shoes are awesome. Was really sitting into my squats this am....

Snake oil unless it’s prescribed by a dr....

FYI I went with leistung II’s for the lifting shoe. I’ll report back on the feel of them after I put them to work Friday morning. ...

As an experiment I’ve been doing some squats with a 2.5lb plate under my heel and it’s helping me get deeper into my squat. That makes me assume that a heeled shoe would help more in that department. I’m not much of a low bar squatter. I’m somewhere in between mid and high bar....

What shoes are you guys wearing? I've got some Metcon 4's, but have been jonesing for a lifter with a heel. I've looked at Nike Romaleos 3, Adipower, Adidas Leistung 16, and Reebok Legacy Lifters. Any thoughts?...

I’m 5k in the hole on my honeymoon. Setting the bar high on the first vacation I guess....

Protein and creatine. Off and on on fish oil. Really only use it when lifters elbow is glaring up....

Even if he can hear it clearly, he still has to relay it to the team which is probably pretty tough....

Pizza and cookies, mostly the dough...

Oh I’ve been on the lifting and nutrition train for a while. It’s not my first diet haha. Just giving keto a shot because my fiancé was doing it, so I figured, frick it, I’ll do it too. I’ve just been fishing for info from people that haven’t taken a bath in cult-juice :lol:...

Sounds good dudes. I’ll report back with my results in a couple weeks....

Sounds like I’m gonna drop some casein. I’m just concerned that if I don’t keep my protein intake high I’ll lose muscle which I certainly don’t want to do :lol:...

I’m pretty much right at maintenance. 5’10” 175lb with something active done everyday between lift days and GSLP conditioning. I’m taking in ~2800 calories a day. Scale has me down a pound 10 days in, so 174 right now. Meals have looked like this: Breakfast: 4 eggs, 4 strips of bacon OR 2 chedda...

I’ve always done IIFYM. I’m big believer in just pure calories in, calories out and I’m taking that same approach to keto. I’m 5’10” and probably somewhere between 12-16% be right now. Goal here is to do a body recomp and try to stay the same weight but lose some fat, which is why I’m rolling wit...

Welcome. You’re going to look at yourself and feel awesome in 2 months. Hop into some of the threads for advice/motivation to stick with it....

I refuse to post in that nutjob’s keto thread, but I just started keto. I’ve been eat 182F/294P/<5g since Monday. I’ve kept the carbs super low just to kind of shock my body into this thing. Any recommendations or anything? I didn’t research too much ahead of time bc my fiancé wanted to do this ...

If I’m LSU, I’m not taking Rodney’s LOI until Ish’s is in hand. I wrote this dude off a long time ago so I’m not expecting to get him and the last thing I want is to not get him but be stuck with his below average brother soaking up a scholarship. I don’t mind the package deal though. We have ro...

I think once he decommitted from LSU he was just waiting for the green light to be allowed to commit to Bama. We haven’t heard about him in a while so I don’t know what changed....