Need some advice: losing fat first then bulding muscle or at the same time?

Hi there! I'm new here, first of all, apologies for any english mistakes :)

So it's hard to know where to begin explaining but I'll try to do my best.

Height: 192 cm
Actual Weight: 96,5 kg (111,5 before summer)
Age: 19

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I've been fat all my life, my parents once took me to the "doctor" (I don't how is it said, but the one about nutrition and all this stuff) and that didn't work (during that period of time I was 104 kg lbs top). When I was 18 I stopped going there so I was on my own, and I got more and more fat, until 250 lbs. Then I deciced I was going to get healthy and lose everything. I've been dieting all summer, and I've managed to lose around 15 kg, but I feel like there's still a lot of things I'm doing wrong, so I came here looking for advice.
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tl;dr of intro: I've been fat all my life and lately I've been eating healthier and exercicing, in 4 months I've lost around 15 kg, but I'm struggling to lose fat.

Based on what I've read around these forums and what some friends have told me, I'm basically doing a high-protein diet, something like the Paleo diet, so you get the idea, but not exactly the same. Exercice: Cardio (I usually read bad things about it but it is something I really enjoy) and started doing bodyweight exercices.

I did that for around a month, I had no problems doing exercice/sticking to the diet so there's no problem with that. But it got to a point where I thought it was better if I stopped doing the bodyweight exercices. I basically thought it would be better to lose all the fat I wanted to lose until I looked "good", and then start building muscle. But it's been another month and I still look nearly the same. I've noticed some differences but not a big deal. I was afraid that I'd end up building muscle but still keep a lot of fat, and then when triying to lose it I'd lose muscle as well.



tl:dr of the whole post:

I'm here more or less -> fat and with almost no muscle: (Image 1)

And I hope one day I'll be here (not more "muscular") -> not fat and with some muscle: (Image 2)

What should I do? Keep losing weight and (hopefully) fat? Or start working with the muscles already? And what about the diet? High protein?

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So far I've tried the Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter Chip and now the Birthday Cake flavor Protein Cookie. The profile is good for a protein cookie although I wouldn't mind seeing a little higher protein content. I thought the thick and soft texture of the cookie was really good. The flavor and sweetness of the Birthday Cake cookie is great without being too strong. They did a good job at getting that Birthday Cake like taste. I tried microwaving the cookie a little but it didn't really make much of a difference to me so I prefer them straight out of the wrapper. While I thought the Birthday Cake flavor was great I give a slight edge to the Chocolate Chip. So I rank them in order of Chocolate Chip, Birthday Cake and then Peanut Butter Chip. Now I just need to try the Triple Chocolate 😀

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Keeping tension in muscle/rep speed

Recently I have noticed more and more personal trainers in my gym coaching their clients in this manner - lifting quite slowly and telling not to lock the movement in every exercise in order to keep the constant tension in muscle/to not relax it. Hence, the keeping tension thing has made substantially confused.

Does it really help to get better results in terms of muscular hypertrophy? Do the benefits of the manner outweigh the disadvantage of less lifting load used compared with normal rep speed/style? ( explosive on the concentric phase, controlled on the eccentric, lockout after every rep)

What is general consensus based on truthful sources and scientific data?

In addition to this, as I tried the method once, I can get way more better pump with it. But again, does it mean hypertrophy is induced better?

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Hernia or muscle strain

Hi folks,
Just finished a session of deadlifts today. I was going for 5 sets of 3 reps of around 85% of my 1RM. The moment I put down the bar after finishing my second set I felt pinching/burning pain in the right part of my lower abdomen. I decided to finish my work out anyway, there were no further issues after that. Now the area feels OK, no pain during coughing or bending down. There is no visible signs of trauma or hernia.
I took some pictures in case it helps, I don't think there's a bulge or anything. (Beware of homo-erotic content).
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I have to go in another country in a few days and I am a little bit worried about it - I don't want to ruin my vacation. Do you think any of it sounds/looks like something serious?

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In order for you muscles to grow, they have to form micro-tears

neat, thought i'd share

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i saw on a youtube video sodium fills up muscle with water

is this true?

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A question about reps for building muscle

Hey there,

Do you guys know of a guy called Kali Muscle on YouTube? Now it doesn't matter if you don't because what he constantly says is that to get huge muscles you need to do lots of reps, always saying no 5's 10's or even 12's, its 15's, 20's and failure.

Now just doing reps to me reminds me of when I first started at the gym and you'd just do infinite reps with enough that lets you do that and you literally go nowhere, or you might get somewhere because you're so early to training!

But what I don't understand is, literally everybody says the opposite to what this Kali dude says, 12 reps max, even just do it heavy, 6 reps, you gotta lift, just keep your rest down so you're not giving your muscles much time to rest to make sure you tear the muscle. So pretty much how I always understood it, bulk is 8 - 12 reps up to 2 minute rest.

Again this Kali dude, will just say that this ain't how it works, and even speak out to say say yeah everyone says 10 - 12 reps, and that aint how you do it! Going on rants saying everyone needs to stop saying this, I got to where I am doing what I am saying, I don't want to keep it a secret, what I say is right and look at me! You gotta get the blood into your muscle, get the pump...

Whenever I tried doing like 15 to 20 reps, I never found I was doing anything, I keep doing sets just to see when I'd actually feel properly worked out, and actually multiple attempts at about 20 reps it just felt like nothing was properly happening.

I know you need to challenge the muscle in order for them to grow because if they don't need to adapt they wont. So I thought the idea with Kali's training is yeah 15 - 20 reps maybe like 40 seconds rest, go light but heavy FOR YOU so mad heavy for 20 reps, most importantly keep trying to progress with the weight since obviously if you just push some light weight for a year nothing will happen.

But what do you guys think? purely because people would say that this is total bollocks, and I always knew 15 reps and above to be for toning, but whenever I've done reps like that even in the past, I didn't seem to achieve anything. Literally just lose progress, which is why I'd stick to doing heavy at 12 reps but then I don't understand how Kali is the biggest dude ever saying no you don't get this big doing 10 reps! put the weight down so you can do 20!

so at the minute, I'm totally lost, since I need to know what is right, I can do one or the other at the gym, but for me it needs to be known what is right.

Cheers guys.

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