A super nice how to guide, to how I lost 25 LBS in 2 months without "Dieting". This guide will give you tools and understanding on how fat works to get your body to the next level.
>1 Find out your TDEE and learn how fat works
Check online for a TDEE calculator also find your body fat percentage using picture estimations or online Army calculators. Plop in Sedentary as your activity level and find your maintenance calories. These are the calories you need to eat to not go up or down in weight, if you go above, you will gain weight, if you go below you will lose it.
A lbs of fat is around 3500 calories. IF you're daily calories are -500 from your TDEE that's -3500cals a week. Meaning you'll lose a lbs a week. If you eat 750 excess cals a day thats 1.5lbs of weight gain a week.
>2 Autistically track calories
For the first bit, you need to track everything you eat and see how and what you put in your body affects you. Initially I just suggest tracking what you put in without changing anything. That way you can see where you're going and what foods are what calories. Are you above or below your TDEE? What things are you eating that lend to lots of calories. For me it was pepsi, I drank so much that I was bumping my daily calorie intake by 1500. This insight allowed me to change habits. Easy changes for big results. Autistic means autistic, add in butter, condiments, donuts, vitamin water whatever doesn't fucking matter everything. See how many calories a day.
>3 Start a calorie goal diet
This is really simple if you want to lose weight go below your calorie TDEE. When I started my TDEE was around 2200. When I went 500 calories lower down to 1700 I quickly started losing weight without too much change on my diet. In order to hit this I just had to swap over to diet drinks and cut french fries. I ate mostly fast food the whole time. But because I was lower than my TDEE I lost weight. Note this is just weight, doing this without working out is about 70% fat and 30% muscle loss. If you work out while you do this you must add a 0.7 grams of protein for every lbs of bodyweight and get proper rest, then your loss will be 96% fat 4% muscle.
>4 Optional - Breaking Food Habits
I was never an emotional or habitual eater. But this still helped me understand my relationship with food. For about the first 4 weeks I did a "Crash diet" in which I ate 500 calories every second day and maintenance every other day. I ate the 500 in one sitting as well. I could drink whatever I wanted as long as it was 0 calories as well. After a week your body gets used to it, you never really get hungry. You'll find out that hunger is legitimately mostly a psychological habit than a physical need. Once the first week is over you realize your fake needs for food and it allows you to hit dietary goals 100000x easier because you no longer "need to eat" when you actually just want to eat. Oh you will also lose 2-6 lbs a week on this period.
Losing fat is easier than you think but it's about learning to control yourself. Now you can move your body composition in the right direction. This alone will get you to a healthy weight extremely easy.
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>>87
> Autistically track calories
Yes. There may be a lot of niceties to diet and exercise, but at the end of the day conservation of energy remains absolute.
> Autistically track calories
Yes. There may be a lot of niceties to diet and exercise, but at the end of the day conservation of energy remains absolute.
What about gaining muscle mass?
Muscle mass is a slightly different beast. So I'll drop some rules. Bulk is putting on muscle while gaining some fat, cut is losing fat while maintaining muscle.
The max muscle you can gain from lifting is 25lbs first year, 15lbs second year, 10lbs third year. Free of steroids of course. That means anything more than 2lbs of mass gained a month in the first year will mostly be fat, so you only need about 7500 bonus calories over the course of a month + whatever extra energy you use in the workouts. This is where gallon of milk a day on /fit/ is a meme, it just makes you fat. Musculature is almost entirely dependant on your bodyfat, If you're higher than 20% body fat it will make it insanely difficult to A) See results and B) your body will be more likely to turn excess calories to fat rather than muscle.
If you want a 6pack you have to get to 10% bodyfat, my personal suggestion is initially cut to 15% bodyfat, then bulk for a few (12?) weeks, then cut to 10%, and bulk and cut between 10-15%. You'll look good year round.
Second rep ranges adjust how your body reacts to weightlifting. Changing your reps and sets changes if you build mass, strength or endurance.
1-5 Reps: Strength
6-12 Reps: Hypertrophy
12+: Endurance
Meaning if you do 20 push ups or 100 sit ups you're not building muscle, likewise if you're doing starting strength you're barely building muscle. (Right on the edge) SS is also a meme if you want to build an asthetic muscular body.
Finally 0.7g-1g of protein per lbs of bodyweight every day. If you're 200lbs, that's 140g-200g of protein. Don't work out on consecutive days, don't work out the same muscle group more than once every 4. (This allows CNS to recover letting you lift more) Eat +400 calories to start each day, if you're gaining less than 0.6 lbs a week up it. More than 1 lbs drop calories a bit.
My personal workout cycle, focuses on looking damn sexy, while building useful strength (example Incline bench boosts punch strength more than reg bench). Also quick af in gym, 50 mins or so with some warm up. Gives you Brad Pitt Troy/Fight Club physique.
Find weights where these are at the edge of your ability you should be using a weight in each of these lifts that you can't do another rep hitting failure. For example novice incline Bench might look like: 110lbs x 5, 100lbs x 6, 95lbs x 8.
Alternate A and B
Week 1:
Monday A
Wed B
Friday A
Week 2:
Monday B
Wed A
Friday B
*Any non consecutive days with 2 days rest after 3rd workout I actually do Sat/Mon/Wed
Workout A
Incline Bench
1x5, 1x6, 1x8
OHP
1x5, 1x6, 1x8
Increase weight by 2.5lbs every exercise (Total 2.5 to 5lbs a week, you're in hypertrophy not strength gaining)
Lateral Raises
3sets x 8-12 reps.
Skull Crusher
3 sets x 6-10 reps
Every exercise alternate between adding a rep to the first set or the middle/last set (3x8 then 1x9 2x8, then 3x9 then 1x10 2x9) At max reps bump weight up and restart reps at lowest.
Workout B
Deadlift
1x5, 1x6, 1x8
Assisted then Weighted Chinup
1x5, 1x6, 1x8
Increase weight by 2.5lbs every exercise (Total 2.5 to 5lbs a week, you're in hypertrophy not strength gaining)
Bent over fly
3sets x 8-12 reps
Barbell Bicep Curl
3 sets x 6-10 reps
Every exercise alternate between adding a rep to the first set or the middle/last set (3x8 then 1x9 2x8, then 3x9 then 1x10 2x9) At max reps bump weight up and restart reps at lowest.
The max muscle you can gain from lifting is 25lbs first year, 15lbs second year, 10lbs third year. Free of steroids of course. That means anything more than 2lbs of mass gained a month in the first year will mostly be fat, so you only need about 7500 bonus calories over the course of a month + whatever extra energy you use in the workouts. This is where gallon of milk a day on /fit/ is a meme, it just makes you fat. Musculature is almost entirely dependant on your bodyfat, If you're higher than 20% body fat it will make it insanely difficult to A) See results and B) your body will be more likely to turn excess calories to fat rather than muscle.
If you want a 6pack you have to get to 10% bodyfat, my personal suggestion is initially cut to 15% bodyfat, then bulk for a few (12?) weeks, then cut to 10%, and bulk and cut between 10-15%. You'll look good year round.
Second rep ranges adjust how your body reacts to weightlifting. Changing your reps and sets changes if you build mass, strength or endurance.
1-5 Reps: Strength
6-12 Reps: Hypertrophy
12+: Endurance
Meaning if you do 20 push ups or 100 sit ups you're not building muscle, likewise if you're doing starting strength you're barely building muscle. (Right on the edge) SS is also a meme if you want to build an asthetic muscular body.
Finally 0.7g-1g of protein per lbs of bodyweight every day. If you're 200lbs, that's 140g-200g of protein. Don't work out on consecutive days, don't work out the same muscle group more than once every 4. (This allows CNS to recover letting you lift more) Eat +400 calories to start each day, if you're gaining less than 0.6 lbs a week up it. More than 1 lbs drop calories a bit.
My personal workout cycle, focuses on looking damn sexy, while building useful strength (example Incline bench boosts punch strength more than reg bench). Also quick af in gym, 50 mins or so with some warm up. Gives you Brad Pitt Troy/Fight Club physique.
Find weights where these are at the edge of your ability you should be using a weight in each of these lifts that you can't do another rep hitting failure. For example novice incline Bench might look like: 110lbs x 5, 100lbs x 6, 95lbs x 8.
Alternate A and B
Week 1:
Monday A
Wed B
Friday A
Week 2:
Monday B
Wed A
Friday B
*Any non consecutive days with 2 days rest after 3rd workout I actually do Sat/Mon/Wed
Workout A
Incline Bench
1x5, 1x6, 1x8
OHP
1x5, 1x6, 1x8
Increase weight by 2.5lbs every exercise (Total 2.5 to 5lbs a week, you're in hypertrophy not strength gaining)
Lateral Raises
3sets x 8-12 reps.
Skull Crusher
3 sets x 6-10 reps
Every exercise alternate between adding a rep to the first set or the middle/last set (3x8 then 1x9 2x8, then 3x9 then 1x10 2x9) At max reps bump weight up and restart reps at lowest.
Workout B
Deadlift
1x5, 1x6, 1x8
Assisted then Weighted Chinup
1x5, 1x6, 1x8
Increase weight by 2.5lbs every exercise (Total 2.5 to 5lbs a week, you're in hypertrophy not strength gaining)
Bent over fly
3sets x 8-12 reps
Barbell Bicep Curl
3 sets x 6-10 reps
Every exercise alternate between adding a rep to the first set or the middle/last set (3x8 then 1x9 2x8, then 3x9 then 1x10 2x9) At max reps bump weight up and restart reps at lowest.
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>>99
I dont really want to shit all over your post because you clearly put a lot of effort into it but more than half of what you said is complete broscience.
The amount of muscle you can put on in a year is limited only by your effort and genetics not some scientific study.
Rep ranges are complete meme and only thing that actually matters is the total workload you put your body throu.
SS is good for people who actually read the book and know that you arent supposed to run it for longer than 16 weeks and not a year like some retards do.
Fullbody routines have you work muscles every other day and they are more effective for natural lifters than brosplits (see pre-steroid bodybuilders from 50´s who only trained fullbody pic related), dont know where you got the information that you can work a muscle group only once every 4 days.
Going to the true 10% bodyfat range and below requires alot of effort and is unhealthy for natural lifters because their test production quickly starts to tank at that point.
Your routine is completly shit, there is no direct quad.hamstring or hipflexor work, you OHP on the same day as you Incline Bench, no rows to counteract internal rotation from benching. 3x12 two times a week on lateral raises is not gonna get you anywhere growth wise, no calf work, no facepulls and worst of all on some weeks you will work muscle groups like chest and shoulders only once a week which is very much sub-optimal.
And on a sidenote, if 2 compound and 2 isolation exercises take you 50 minutes then I feel sorry for you because I do triple this in hour and a half.
I dont really want to shit all over your post because you clearly put a lot of effort into it but more than half of what you said is complete broscience.
The amount of muscle you can put on in a year is limited only by your effort and genetics not some scientific study.
Rep ranges are complete meme and only thing that actually matters is the total workload you put your body throu.
SS is good for people who actually read the book and know that you arent supposed to run it for longer than 16 weeks and not a year like some retards do.
Fullbody routines have you work muscles every other day and they are more effective for natural lifters than brosplits (see pre-steroid bodybuilders from 50´s who only trained fullbody pic related), dont know where you got the information that you can work a muscle group only once every 4 days.
Going to the true 10% bodyfat range and below requires alot of effort and is unhealthy for natural lifters because their test production quickly starts to tank at that point.
Your routine is completly shit, there is no direct quad.hamstring or hipflexor work, you OHP on the same day as you Incline Bench, no rows to counteract internal rotation from benching. 3x12 two times a week on lateral raises is not gonna get you anywhere growth wise, no calf work, no facepulls and worst of all on some weeks you will work muscle groups like chest and shoulders only once a week which is very much sub-optimal.
And on a sidenote, if 2 compound and 2 isolation exercises take you 50 minutes then I feel sorry for you because I do triple this in hour and a half.
>>104
I assumed the chin/pull up would balance the bench. The lack of calves is to balance out the physique, deadlifts seem sufficient and a touch up period of squats once in a while will fix. Mainly ignoring for wardrobe considerations because calfs get freakish fast comparably. Im willing to adjust though. What's your hypertrophy routine?
I assumed the chin/pull up would balance the bench. The lack of calves is to balance out the physique, deadlifts seem sufficient and a touch up period of squats once in a while will fix. Mainly ignoring for wardrobe considerations because calfs get freakish fast comparably. Im willing to adjust though. What's your hypertrophy routine?
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>>106
I took a basic fullbody routine and heavily modified it to fit my needs and strenght goals, couldnt workout and eat properly for a month because of work, so right now I am just trying to get used to the volume I did before summer.
I change up the exercises every few weeks so I cant give you the exact routine but pic related is what I did today which is on the higher side of reps.
I took a basic fullbody routine and heavily modified it to fit my needs and strenght goals, couldnt workout and eat properly for a month because of work, so right now I am just trying to get used to the volume I did before summer.
I change up the exercises every few weeks so I cant give you the exact routine but pic related is what I did today which is on the higher side of reps.
I started drinking protein shakes. First, I made it with milk. That burned through milk quickly, so I switched to water. It's almost as good. Powdery taste bothers me, but the knowledge that I'm almost unhealthily full of calories after a glass keeps me from snacking for the rest of the day.
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