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  • Belly fat is unfortunately just calorie reduction. You can’t target fat on specific parts of the body, just overall.

    Improving core strength with no impact on the spine is tough, as most core exercises will likely engage the back and spine. I would try to implement standard, good form push ups if you can. Planking is also an option, but again form is king. Do them properly, for less time instead of “cheating” with loose form if you want to make improvements.


  • Another thing to add on to why weight isn’t a great measurement - You will put on muscle as you lose fat, especially if you shift your diet while you workout. It’s fully possible that you lose 5 lbs of fat in a month while putting on 5 lbs of muscle. Both are great strides forward, but the scale will show no change.

    If you are going to use a scale, get one that will do body fat analysis as well. They aren’t 100% accurate, but its another measurement that gives a closer look at your actual fitness.


  • Basically 48 hrs between muscle groups. Mon - Wed - Friday is a reasonable pace if you do an “all in one” routine. If you want to do daily lifting workouts, you need to rotate arms/legs/core then repeat.

    OP, it seems counter-intuitive to workout less to improve, but you have to realize that you gain muscle by straining and overworking current muscle. To build and repair, the muscles need rest, nutrients and time. If you don’t give it to them, they can’t build up.

    Sleep, time and food are all as important as how much and how often you lift weights.




  • The statement that “SMR exist because small reactors exist in nuclear vessels” is disingenuous, if not an outright lie. These reactors are small, but are not mass produced in factories and then assembled on site in a paint by numbers way that SMRs are pitched as. They are each bespoke, horrifying expense reactors that are just smaller than standard land based reactors. The designs are not “assembly line” ready at all.

    They are designed for a certain size, but also for warfare. They spare literally no expense when making them, and do things that no civilian plant should ever do. The cost per megawatt is astronomical. Just unimaginably expensive, to the point of being instant commercial dead ends. Literally none of their designs would be considered usable, even if they weren’t military secrets.

    The truth of the matter is that no one on earth has a working SMR design. The US goverment dumped hundreds of millions of subsidies into them recently and the companies all failed. This 15 billion for 4 plants next to Toronto, a city Doug Ford hates, is likely a mix of vendetta and media blitz for Ontario to deflect from their minimal renewals commitment.