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6 Weeks of Burning the Fat, Feeding the Muscle
I'm a swimmer and a very new body builder. I'm in the off season so I spent a month bulking (which I think I gained a pound, but I didn't have calipers so I couldn't keep precise track at the time except through weight) and then six weeks of cutting.
Here's the result of my cut: Start: 140.0 lbs., 12.3% body fat End: 135.6 lbs. 9.8% body fat change in fat mass: 3.93 lbs. change is lean body mass: .47 lbs. http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/731...rmation.th.jpg I know the poses are completely different, but what do you guys think? The next area for improvement is DEFINITELY my scrawny little chest. |
How tall are you?
Are you doing shows already? If not, then why not do an extended lean bulk? Bulking, then cutting is going to make for slow progress. |
I read several books for beginners, one of them being Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle by Tom Venuto, and he recommended getting off all of my excess fat before I start bulking.
Right now my goal is to get to 130.0 lbs. so I'll be around 6% before I start bulking, because losing fat really stinks! Also, I'm not sure if you know about somatotypes, but I'm pretty sure I'm an ecto-mesomorph, aka a "hardgainer", so it's pretty hard for me anyways to eat over my maintenance calories, making good choices (we all know it's easy to get to 5,000 with In-n-Out) without getting sick (like 4,500). Any tips? I just joined today, but I'm definitely reading the stickies. I'm already having 6-7 meals a day, tapering my calories from breakfast to dinner. I try to keep my macro nutrient ratio at 50:30:20. |
Absolutely no need to get to 6% before bulking. If you get that low, then you're losing precious muscle & wasting time. 40/40/20 might be a better ratio for you if you're a hard gainer...or even 40/30/30.
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