Thanks for answering my dumb ass questions. From somebody who has lost a lot of weight. Should I workout / build muscle now, or keep cutting until I reach goal weight?
I'm down 80 lbs and goal is to lose another 35 which would land me at 185. I'm 5'11.
2nd question. How do I build muscle fast.
3rd question. How do you pay attention to audio books while working out? I find eithery my exercise suffers and I'm just cruising , or my attention span suffers and I'm not listening to the audio book.
185 is good for 5'11. That's a good aim. Body recomposition is difficult. Once you get down to that 195 range or maybe just before, you're likely to plateau. You just have to keep spicing things up to keep shocking your body. I recently added apple cider vinegar diluted in water before each meal to help cut down visceral fat, as an example. I started doing inclined walking too - another example of shocking the body. Be sure to continue to increment reps/weight. Come up with more things to continue shocking the body. Fasting is good to easily get the rest of the fat off, as an additional example of shocking your body. But if you're building muscle while cutting fat (which is recomposition), there is a range of calories that can get too low. For instance, I found that actually increasing my calories a little helped me to get out of the plateau and start losing more weight, but reemerging with more muscle out of it.
Building muscle fast is easy in the beginning. Beginner's gains are a common theme. But you'll hit a bump not long in to the cycle and it'll feel just like the weight loss plateau. Again, you'll have to just bear down and push through it. This is where min/maxing sort of comes in. Your main aim is increasing testosterone production. This is why people take steroids, actually. I wouldn't advise it myself, though. Instead, you can drink different kinds of teas, take supplements like Ashwag or different probiotics (look in to it and you'll see what I mean). Your diet can matter too (obviously), but not in the normal way you might be thinking: yeah, protein powder is a great supplement to get more protein for the calorie amount, but you can incorporate things like bananas and pineapple (Bromelain) or onions (luteinizing) to give you an additional boost to contribute to testosterone production. These are the kinds of things people will do in order to get an extra edge.
As far as the audiobooks things goes, I find it pretty easy. I just use a treadmill. I'm just walking so I don't need to focus on that. I've been doing this for months and I'm probably over 25 books at this point, reading mostly Philosophy.
Feel free to ask more questions if you'd like.
What's min/maxing
Shats your favorite tea
You see, I haven't been working out during my weight loss/ cutting. I am trying to determine when to start hitting it. If I go down to 185, would that be the ideal time to bulk back up?
I own bar bells, dumb bells, kettle bells, and an adjustable bench press. I probably won't go to a gym.
I don't really fuck with tea, honestly. I do know some guys get in to different teas for energy and T production though. I'm sure there's a depth of resources pertaining to this exact topic. I think there's a youtuber guy who's big in to T as a nutritionist, but I'm not sure I remember his name.
min/maxing is a video game term where you make changes to your character to get the best results for different stats. I just used a term I'd assumed most people in a place like this would be able to relate to. Essentially, the way this applies here is doing a bunch of extra things, like the list of things I've given, to get the best results that end up giving you the most fat burn and the most muscle growth. To do this, you want to maximize protein intake, eat the smallest amount of carbs/sugars possible, etc. Things like taking cinnamon or green tea can help with fat burning. Increasing T is the best way to get good muscle gains.
What you're doing makes a lot of sense. Recomposition is difficult. Losing all the fat and then building up the muscle is probably the most efficient way to get there. If you're pretty sedentary and you don't plan to add routines to spur the weight loss, you can keep your calories a little lower than if you were trying to build muscle. You still want to do mainly protein for calories though and be sure to add in some healthy fats because that's where you really get energy from. So in your situation, assuming you really don't do much of anything that gets you moving or lifting, you're going to want to stay in the 1600 calorie range, maybe 1800 if it's too tough for you, all with a single meal per day. You will see rapid weight loss doing this (I'm guessing) and get to that range much quicker. Indeed, 185 is a good weight for someone of your size, maybe 180 depending on your body type. Some might say a little less for you, even, but I'm not sure that at that point it makes a huge different since your plan is to bulk up anyway once you get to the weight target.
You honestly don't need any weighted machines or tools to bulk up. Calisthenics is good enough. However, if you want to add those things in, there are a great deal of routines you can do with just those things. Personally, I've only done body weight during my journey. I think you should seek advice elsewhere about what kinds of things you should do to build muscle with those instruments. After all, you have a ways to go before bulking is a good idea for you.
Starting Strength - Mark Ripptoe
Do the fucking program.
Thanks. Digging in.
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