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Old 06-13-2007, 06:42 AM
EricT EricT is offline
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Are you "cutting" as such? Or was it just a general lifestyle change? You've lost weight pretty fast but you say you're a newbie. Without knowing anything about your goals or what's going on I would just say a few things in a general way:

I think it makes a lot of sense to get fat down to a manageable level....say around 12% (or a little higher) for a man before you start trying to really pack on muscle. While doing that a person could gain a lot of general strength which would serve well when the excess fat is off. Excess fat makes it hard to gain muscle. However, I think the worst thing a "newbie" could do is to diet down, aka "cutting" via a severe caloric deficit. Because what you're doing during that is turning off a whole lot of mass building machinery in your body and turning on fat storage. In other words as soon as you start eating either maintenance or a little more you body is "primed' to recover it's fat losses and it going to tend to want to do that instead of building muscle.

So....and this is just my humble opinion...if you are "cutting" with a big calorie deficit stop doing that and slow it down. Start a strength program and allow the fat to come off a little more slowly. That way when the bodyfat is down where you want it and you stop "cutting" you won't tend to balloon up as much and you may have a better time in the long run instead of entering a cycle of yo-yo dieting. If none of this applies to you then fine...like I said it was general stuff.

I know a lot of the traditional bulking cutting devotees may jump on me. But there is no way anyone can explain how it makes sense to tell your body it is starving, and so to shut down hormone production, and pretty much beat your pituitary with a hammer at the very beginning of taking up weight triaining. Unless you have a medicine cabinet full of pharmaceutical magic in which case nutrient partioning is completely different.
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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.
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