Body Fat/Weight training/Cardio
I had recently started weight training in November. I lift twice a week exercising each muscle group only once a week. I also started supplimenting my diet with Whey protein. I have noticed muscle & strength gain within the last 2-3 months overall, which is great, but the main thing that is bothering me is my body fat percentage. Before I had started lifting, I had noticed over that last year that I had gained some body fat percentage, mainly because I had developed some really bad eating habits (junk, beer). I'm not fat. I'm 25 yrs old, 5'9" around 170. But over the course of the year, i noticed that my 6 six pack had turned into a 1 pack.
Luckily, I changed those habits, so that I'm not putting on that type of bad weight anymore. However, like I had said, I started out my program in Nov........with this undesirable body fat. Now I am pretty sure that I haven't put any more significant fat on my body since I started lifting and supplementing with Whey protein, my educated guess is that the weight gain, and noticable size gain is muscle mass. But I want to get rid of this damn fat. The fat I had when I begun has been maintained with me, because I haven't created a calorie deficit. I still want to get a little bigger muscle wise.......but I want to lose the fat.
At this point, I was considering adding 3 days of moderate cardio, and possibly creating a slight deficit in my diet (while still maintaining a significant protein percentage). But I'm not sure if this will work. I hear alot that if you create any type of calorie deficit, then I can kiss any type of muscle gains away. So I'm not sure what avenue to take.
Hypethetically speaking........if it did work, would I only then need to stop the cardio once the fat has been shed off........and/or loose the calorie deficit, so that I can just lift like I'm doing now and still get muscle gain (assuming that doing this would maintain the desired body fat percentage), or is this all a pipe dream?
Yes I want to get bigger. But I want this little extra body fat percentage gone.......and fast..........because it bothers me everytime I look in the mirror. Can someone please advise me so that I can stop racking my brain? Thanks
Chris
I had recently started weight training in November. I lift twice a week exercising each muscle group only once a week. I also started supplimenting my diet with Whey protein. I have noticed muscle & strength gain within the last 2-3 months overall, which is great, but the main thing that is bothering me is my body fat percentage. Before I had started lifting, I had noticed over that last year that I had gained some body fat percentage, mainly because I had developed some really bad eating habits (junk, beer). I'm not fat. I'm 25 yrs old, 5'9" around 170. But over the course of the year, i noticed that my 6 six pack had turned into a 1 pack.
Luckily, I changed those habits, so that I'm not putting on that type of bad weight anymore. However, like I had said, I started out my program in Nov........with this undesirable body fat. Now I am pretty sure that I haven't put any more significant fat on my body since I started lifting and supplementing with Whey protein, my educated guess is that the weight gain, and noticable size gain is muscle mass. But I want to get rid of this damn fat. The fat I had when I begun has been maintained with me, because I haven't created a calorie deficit. I still want to get a little bigger muscle wise.......but I want to lose the fat. At this point, I was considering adding 3 days of moderate cardio, and possibly creating a slight deficit in my diet (while still maintaining a significant protein percentage). But I'm not sure if this will work. I hear alot that if you create any type of calorie deficit, then I can kiss any type of muscle gains away. So I'm not sure what avenue to take.
Hypethetically speaking........if it did work, would I only then need to stop the cardio once the fat has been shed off........and/or loose the calorie deficit, so that I can just lift like I'm doing now and still get muscle gain (assuming that doing this would maintain the desired body fat percentage), or is this all a pipe dream?
Yes I want to get bigger. But I want this little extra body fat percentage gone.......and fast..........because it bothers me everytime I look in the mirror. Can someone please advise me so that I can stop racking my brain? Thanks
Chris
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