Hey, been lifting for about 4 years but half of that was **** workouts and the other half was not eating properly at all.
I've got a lot of experience in training but never really focused too much on how important food is - I would just eat a bigger breakfast and throw in a bowl of rice extra here in there .... TERRIBLE I know.
Anyways, about 6 months ago I dropped out of the gym weighing 140lbs (5'7, 19 years old) and now I float at 128 lbs.
I think my bodyfat is about 15% although I am not entirely sure, but I want to get my abs to show. I aim to gain muscle and lose some fat (I know this is difficult) as I would like to drop to about 10-12% and lean bulk at the a bodyfat so I can train with my abs on display.
I am also training 3-5x a week depending on my schedule and I also do about 20 mins of cardio twice a week.
I'm 2 weeks in to my better diet and back training again now and I have only gained half a pound and I do look slightly different. I am not sure whether it is me getting leaner (losing fat as well getting muscle) which is causing my slow gain but I am eating about 1000kcals more than I normally do. I can eat about 1500 a day and not be hungry normally, I used to bulk at 1800 (slow results) but I have upped my calories to about 2300-2500 a day as I am trying to start bulking and reduce cals until I learn how my body reacts to specific calorie ranges.
I do my cardio first thing in the morning before a 900-1200 cal breakfast. I then have about a 500 cal lunch and about 300 of seeds/nuts after workout and roughly 600 on dinner. With training and cardio I am putting on weight, albeit slowly, do you think would it be fair to estimate that I am doing this correctly? I eat about 15-20% fat in my and get about 130-170g protein in.
So a couple of questions:
1. Is my nutrition, fasted cardio and training allowing me to lose fat and gain muscle
2. As an estimation, is my bodyfat already low enough for a lean bulk?
I've got a lot of experience in training but never really focused too much on how important food is - I would just eat a bigger breakfast and throw in a bowl of rice extra here in there .... TERRIBLE I know.
Anyways, about 6 months ago I dropped out of the gym weighing 140lbs (5'7, 19 years old) and now I float at 128 lbs.
I think my bodyfat is about 15% although I am not entirely sure, but I want to get my abs to show. I aim to gain muscle and lose some fat (I know this is difficult) as I would like to drop to about 10-12% and lean bulk at the a bodyfat so I can train with my abs on display.
I am also training 3-5x a week depending on my schedule and I also do about 20 mins of cardio twice a week.
I'm 2 weeks in to my better diet and back training again now and I have only gained half a pound and I do look slightly different. I am not sure whether it is me getting leaner (losing fat as well getting muscle) which is causing my slow gain but I am eating about 1000kcals more than I normally do. I can eat about 1500 a day and not be hungry normally, I used to bulk at 1800 (slow results) but I have upped my calories to about 2300-2500 a day as I am trying to start bulking and reduce cals until I learn how my body reacts to specific calorie ranges.
I do my cardio first thing in the morning before a 900-1200 cal breakfast. I then have about a 500 cal lunch and about 300 of seeds/nuts after workout and roughly 600 on dinner. With training and cardio I am putting on weight, albeit slowly, do you think would it be fair to estimate that I am doing this correctly? I eat about 15-20% fat in my and get about 130-170g protein in.
So a couple of questions:
1. Is my nutrition, fasted cardio and training allowing me to lose fat and gain muscle
2. As an estimation, is my bodyfat already low enough for a lean bulk?
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