Advice please

RE: Advice please (No Quarter)

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:26:01 GMT

-Your workouts should be intense and challenging even if you don't want to be enormous. Getting huge and bulky takes a very very long time, you won't just wake up one day and have too much muscle for your own liking.
-I'd reccomend going to www.fitday.com, it's a free registration, it'll help you figure out how many calories you're burning in your day to day routine and how many you're eating. Even if you don't use it everyday, it's very helpful in telling you how you're doing calorie-wise.
-Yes you can lose fat while building muscle, it's just a slower process than focussing on one. I'd reccomend a caloric deficit of 300-500 a day.
-Supplements-wise, you'll want a vitamin and whey protein, nothing else is worth the money when you start (maybe not when you're advanced either, it's debatable).

RE: Advice please (Angel)

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:10:28 GMT

The way I see it you should consentrate on lossing body fat first and then gaining muscle.

Advice please (mac123)

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:15:38 GMT

Hi everyone I'm 6'2 190 with not much muscle definition (or mass for that matter) and I'm wondering what I should do to get a lean toned (not overly bulky) look. I don't mind not being the biggest guy in the gym, but I want to get rid of my love handles and excess weight in the thighs/midsection/etc. So far what I have done is watched my diet and done relatively light workouts with the occasional cardio. After reading some of these threads though, I'm wondering whether the lifitng is even doing anything for me. Should I focus on losing my excess baby fat first and then start working on building muscle, or is it possible, since I just started lifitng seriously, that I can gain some muscle while using a caloric deficit diet? I eat chicken breasts, tuna, beef jerky as much as I can, oatmeal in the morning, and usually some sort of sandwich at lunch. Also are tehre any supplements that could help me out? Thanks a lot for the help.