How to lose belly fat and keep muscle tone

I am 6"3 215 pounds. I have a significant amount of belly fat i want to lose. I work out of town for the summer and have no gym for another 2 months. I have been doing cardio about 4 or 5 times a week in hopes to lose fat. My diet consists of 2700 calories a day. How do i lose fat without losing muscle, and any tips as to how to get shredded in my situation?

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Muscletech CLEAR MUSCLE - Review

Intro:
First and foremost, thank you Muscletech for the opportunity to supplement Clear Muscle for 4 weeks.

Ingredient Profile:
Serving Size: 2 capsules
Servings Per Container: 84
BetaTOR® (Free acid beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate) -- 1000mg
Other ingredients: Choline Chloride, Hypromellose, Water, Silicon Dioxide

Taste:
Bitter, very bitter. Burns if you digest on empty stomach

Effectiveness:
Upon taking them within several minutes I could feel my body warming up, like a thermogenic. Clear Muscle provided a nice boost of energy right before my workouts and worked well with my pre-workout of choice. During the 4 weeks, none of my lifts suffered, in fact, all my lifts progressively increased week by week. My weight however, continued to drop on the scale, BUT my physique still retained all my muscle. Important to note, I'm on a calorie deficit and not a surplus. To recap, I would take 2 capsules with breakfast, 2 with lunch, and 2 with dinner. I took this product everyday including cardio days.

Side Effects:
Burning sensation -- thermogenic properties

Conclusion:
Like I said, I had energy, never felt weak or deprived. I believe Clear Muscle contributed to maintaining lean muscle, increasing strength even just slightly and quite possibly helped me harden my physique too. I’d be very curious to supplement Clear Muscle for a full 16 weeks as I do think it has potential. 4 weeks may not be enough to reap the full benefits of this product. ('pi_14')

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Is Dr. Muscle a SCAM or Worth the Money???

Hello everyone!
:-)

I was browsing the ‘net and came across an offer for an app that is programmed by a trainer calling himself Dr. Muscle.

He claims that the app uses artificial intelligence or AI to formulate the best workout programs for building muscle the quickest and fastest, according to each individual’s needs. He also sells additional items like a diet program for an additional $50.

The basic program is $39 a month but if you buy during the checkout. He will charge you immediately for one year at $299, but that waives your 30 day trial period. So, I signed up for it on the monthly basis and I’m hoping that they didn’t void my 30 day trial.

The only reason that I was open to it was because it was supposed to have a 30 day trial along with it. Because I am relatively unfamiliar with the newest of diets for bodybuilding such is intermittent fasting, I went ahead and purchased that program, which is supposed to put together an individualized dietary program for building muscle utilizing intermittent fasting.

Do any of you have any experience with this Dr. Muscle program which is disguised as an iOS and Android app?

Please respond below or contact me directly if you have any information regarding this.

Thanks a lot for all your help and consideration!
:-)

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Looking to gain some muscle definition at home, body weight or home gym device?

Hey guys, I have lost a lot of weight in the last year or so and I would like to gain some muscle definition (since my arms look like branches xD). I don't have money to go to the gym, so I am either opting for body weight exercises or use a multi station home gym device my brother has + some dumbells(picture bellow). Which one would you recommend more and do you have any workout plans I could follow?

Thanks!

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Best type of lifting for Fast Twitch Muscles?

Hey, I am gonna be a freshman in high school and our football team is currently practicing during the summer. Sometimes we go into the school's weight room to lift. Speed is very important to me. I want to get stronger but at the same time be able to run faster. I want to know, which type of lifting is the best at training the fast twitch muscles?

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Question about diet, and building muscle

What’s up everyone,

My goal is to eventually build some muscle mass but also stay quite lean, I’m not looking to be huge but I just want to look less “soft and skinny”

I’ve been on what I’d consider a good eating regime for the last 2 weeks, I’ve been tracking my calories and macros via MFP and I usually always hit my macros (a few times here and there id go over protein by 1% or under fat by a couple %)

I mainly eat chicken and lean meats with carbs also, my breakfast is mainly oats and a protein shake after the gym and then for my lunch I’d usually have things that are low in calories and relatively low in sugars/fat as I do not like any fruits, unfortunately.

I am just concerned that my diet isn’t going to be giving me the help I need to build on some muscle mass. Judging on my calories and macros I’m doing great, but I’m just wondering, if my macros and calories are good, does it matter what I eat, obviously I don’t mean I’m going to eat fast food all the time I just mean does my diet have to be so strict as to having rice, chicken and broc**** all day every day?

Thanks all

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BCAA Bashing: Have The Big Three Of Aminos Been Debunked As Muscle-Builders?

A recent barrage of marketing may have you asking yourself: Do BCAAs work, or were they disproven by a new research paper? Here's what the science says, from an industry insider with decades of experience.

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New to the forum want to lose weight and gain muscle

Hello everyone,

I forgot to make an introductory post first. I already have a thread in the fat loss forum with the more exact details about my journey. I'm a 27 year old male and am 5'11 and weigh about 185 pounds. According to my BMI calculation I'm just shy under the mark where I'm considered overweight. However I think that if you were to take into account my body type in reality I'm actually over that mark. You see, under neath my fat slob of a body I can tell I have a pretty slim frame. I have very little muscle and have skinny arms and hands. I'm sick of this horrendous combination. As long as I'm wearing a T shirt I look more or less normal, just a bit out of shape, but once I take my t shirt off I realize how much I hate my body. I really want to post for a body fat estimate but I'm quite far away from the 50 posts necessary to do that. I'm really quite curios exactly how much of me is body fat and how much I should lose to look like what I'm "supposed" to look like. I lost weight when I was 19-20 through a very unhealthy starvation diet, back then I was pretty fat. This time I want to actually do it healthily, if any benefit came from that previous diet is that it taught me that I can indeed stick to something in the long run. This time I plan to use that ability to maintain an exercise routine and a diet that will make my body what I've always wanted it to be. One of my biggest obstacles is that I do not live anywhere close to any gym nor do I own any body building equipment, frankly I can't afford it either. However I could probably build some of my own or just start off with exercises that don't require any of that.

Anyway, thank you for allowing me to join the community, there definitely seems to be a lot of knowledgeable people on here.

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How to build lean muscle for someone who is confused?

Hey! I got some questions about how I should do this.

Okay, so I am 17 years old and I am 5 feet 10.75 inches tall, I weigh about 165 lbs. I used to weigh like 185 lbs but I wanted to lose weight so I started watching my calories and lost 20 or so lbs. Now, I would like to gain muscle. But I am confused on how to do this so I thought maybe someone could help! I would like to gain muscle but not look "bulky", you know like a body builder, I do wanna look slim but have muscles, liked toned or something? How could I go about doing this? Also, I would like to achieve this by doing body weight exercises, atleast at first and then move onto weight lifting. According to online calculators, my body fat percentage is 15.2%. Thanks to everyone.

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Food Poisoning and muscle flatness - how long to recover fully?

so... recently i had food poisoning.

For about 2-4 days straight I pretty much lost immense amounts of water through diarrhea (3-4x a day) and sweating. My appetite was also non existent and anything i'd put into my stomach would make abdominal cramps that led to diarrhea worse. I know for a fact that diarrhea strips your body and muscles of any nutrients, and any incoming food's nutrients is sometimes not even processed.

i'd then wake up the next morning looking absolutely drained. My face had sunken in and my arms literally looked like they lost a good few inches, chest looked small and basically so did everything

As of now it's been 3 days since i've recovered, and i've basically been stuffing my face with carbs, drinking a crap ton of water and sports drinks. But thing is i'm still looking flat, my muscles obviously looked bigger than on the first day back but i've pretty much lost for example the roundness and fullness of my bicep. Strength wise I feel 1-3 reps less than would i could normally do in most exercises.

My question is does food poisoning deplete glycogen levels and any other substances such as creatine in the body? If so then i would understand the flatness situation more as these two factors also contribute to the 'fullness' look on muscles.
Also how long does it take to FULLY recover from a food poisoning and was there any chance that I lost muscle? (hard to believe in 2-4 days but still)

Cheers

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HardcoreLEAN, muscle builder/clear muscle, & DHEA.

What’s up guys, i need some advice. I’m looking to stack

HardcoreLEAN
Muscle builder
Clear muscle
DHEA.

Any advice on stacking these?

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How many cals to build muscle

First of all, i know this has been answered 400 thousand times but i just wanna ask for myself.. so im a 14 year old skinny guy around 5'4 or 5'5 (around 164cm) i weigh 102 lbs (46.7kg) and im eating 2600 cals a day (160g protein 300g carbs 60g fat). I only eat good nice healthy foods and never touch fast food or sugary snacks. Is this optimal for a sort of bulk to get bigger and building muscle + strength?

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What muscles do I need to develop to have a better back? (see pic in post)

I notice that my back is not as strong as I would like. I've been rowing a lot more, but I'm wondering if the lack of thickness at the top of my back is caused by weak traps. I've listed a pic, and I'm hoping that someone can suggest what exercises/steps to take to develop it. My eye's not that critical since it's my own body. Any critques are welcome.

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Just turned 40 and want to gain muscle

I was wondering how possible is it for me to gain muscle as I have just turned 40, I am quite lean having played sports all my life but I haven't really lifted weights properly so I'm hoping there's some scope for newbie growth

My stats are as follows

Age:40
Height:6ft 0
Waist:31 inches
Bodyfat% Dexa:10%

I would like to gain 15-30lbs of muscle , I have no idea how long this will take or if its even possible without drugs because I'm not willing or would want to take steroids. I think 15lbs of muscle would definitely look good on me at my bodyfat% so that will be the initial goal, I think at my height 200lbs is the realms of max genetic potential whilst maintaining 10% bodyfat

Nutrition wise I'm thinking 3000-3500 calories a day, 150-200g of protein and I don't really care about the fat/carb split . It will be different depending on what I want to eat that day

Would appreciate any and all advice

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