Oh, yes, even deadlifts and squats will fuck you up fast if done with bad form. Just pick up a bar that is too heavy for your and feel what it does to your back as you lift it.

All (well, a few) muscle groups every day (well, not 7 days a week) are fine if you’re just starting out strength training, is the general consensus, I believe. When you start getting into heavier weights or larger volumes, that is when you need the recovery time.

But if you’re lifting 10 times for 10 sets, it’s called volume training, which works well for increasing muscle size, although not strength, and helps to get over plateaus. You’re right, though, because that is not what the ‘toners’ are doing.

This is an old post now but have you tried goblet squats? I don’t know how heavy you squat: it may be impossible to hold up a very heavy dumbbell to your chest but goblet squats are great for practicing good squat form.

I wonder what Hervé Peugnet, the creator of the bandage dress who established Hervé Leger in 1985, would have to say about this. I’ve owned three vintage Leger pieces, made in France, which I purchased from ebay years ago at very good prices. I do not want to go anywhere near the Max Azria versions because they are…

Her husband is a billionaire but he’s kind of gross so, not 100% best life.

Nope. Meroxyl, for example. Arguably the best in sun protection. Banned in the US.

European sunscreens can contain way more scary chemicals than US sunscreens. They’re awesome!

I’m thinking if they have issues with physical sunscreen, they run scared from chemical sunscreen. It has CHEMICALS in it! I don’t know what percentage of zinc oxide makes SPF 30, but reducing it by half should reduce the SPF number to something else, no?

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/151642-… Great idea, except you’d have to hide the shoes on your person because after a while everyone would see you on your way to the crapper in your special poop shoes and know that you are on your way to drop some friends off at the pool...

You can always do what some dog owners do: put it in a little bag and then drop it on the street.

The correct practice is clearly “on the street”, going by the pavement outside of certain houses where I live.

Did you cry because you could not retire at 35? Because jealous, damn.

Allegedly, Ophrah has poop shoes — the cheap shoes she puts on when she goes for a shit so that she is not recognised by the shoes from under the stall door. Gisele needs surgery shoes.

You could be a supertaster. What do you drink and how do you take it? Coffee & tea without sweetening with something and a healthy serving of milk or cream are intolerably bitter — but not to everyone. I belive some supertasters can’t drink them at all in any form.

Stevia and saccharin are gross to me; I can’t use them. Sucralose and aspartame (combined with acesulfame k in the stuff I use) I’ve got used to.

Agreed. Sucralose is fine too. I used to buy pure sucralose — the kind without fillers — and it’s a very, very potent white powder, very difficult to dose right because you need a tiny amount, but I didn’t mind if something came out too sweet. My partner gags at the sweetness of my coffee with its 7 sweetener tablets…

Sodium saccharin is much, much more gross. That seems to be the standard replacement for aspartame in some places.

I got a custom-made silver necklace and bracelet from my mother, cast from real lingonberry leaves by a metalsmith/jeweller. It was not expensive but it was a lot more special than a watch or a bracelet that anyone can buy from a shop, if they can afford it

So sad; poor kitty. I hope he recovers fully!