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Old 11-05-2007, 10:20 AM
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I'd say you definitely need to bring your cals up. IMO, bring things up 500 cals or so/day.

As far as what to manipulate...your protein levels are fine where they are. So that leaves fats and carbs to toy with. You can either bring one or the other up, OR you can bring both up. That all depends on how you react to carbs. If you're fairly carb sensitive then upping the fats would be the better option. BUT most men aren't carb sensitive (lucky bastards ) so you probably don't have to worry about it. It really comes down to which one works better for YOU. Some people feel more hunger with higher carbs, some people don't.

Your cardio, I'm assuming by the times you have listed that you're doing SS cardio. You need to mix that up a bit. Take out a couple of those days and add in some HIIT, plyos, complexes, bleacher sprints... whatever sounds good to you. The body adapts to SS cardio very quickly. And the only way to get past that adaptation is to do longer sessions. And I'm pretty sure you don't want to end up doing 3 hours of cardio a day. Whereas more high intensity/interval/speed drill types of cardio are much shorter sessions. Your body doesn't adapt to them anywhere near as quickly. And you're post exercise calorie burning rate will remain elevated for hours (like it does after lifting).

In terms of your lifting schedule, IMO you should look into doing a 4 day upper/lower split. The one BP/day schemes rarely work very well because of how infrequently the major muscle groups are being targeted.
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