TakezoKensei

I recently purchased an engagement ring and was a bit shocked to realize that out of the 4 C's (cut, carat, clarity, and color), that cut is at the top.

Why do you think clarity is so overrated when a VS2 or even an SI1 can be completely eye clean? Color also seems to be very overrated too but has a huge affect on price, yet you notice the color the most in an unrealistic setting (table side down).

I've been doing stronglifts with leangains for about 6 months now and I've gotten some major gains and lost about 30 lbs. After the first 2 months, once I found my rough limits I continued the same program but instead of keeping the weight the same for the whole 5x5, I would ramp up the weight and hit my 5x1 max on the last set. I'm still hitting personal records every couple of weeks which helps keeping me motivated.

I really like the program. It targets all the major muscles you want but afterwards I try to do 2 or 3 accessory work outs just to keep the heart rate up and target some other muscles.

What's a good way to help someone out when you see them doing an exercise with poor form? Most of the time I couldn't care less if they're doing curls with their whole body but it makes me cringe when I see someone doing bad dead lifts.

I hurt my lower back when I was first learning to dead lift and I would hate for that to happen to someone else but I don't want to look like a douche. I see the trainers at the gym just walk by without saying a word. You would think they would try to help out their members.