No problem. I'm chalk full of this kind of advice. If you'd like to know more or have other dietary, nutrition or fitness questions, like how to lose weight fast, how to build muscle fast, how to more adequately regulate hormone function or properly begin working on calisthenics, feel free to ask.
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.
Starting Strength - Mark Ripptoe
Do the fucking program.
Thanks. Digging in.
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