Gaining Muscle and Losing Fat (2015)
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Baron
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Actually, the link that FCXoptions provided is totally legit and that method of weight gain was journaled extensively, and is backed by some of the best names in the business.
Yeah, there were a couple of articles in the NYtimes health columns about six months ago or so about IF. The first study was about the eight hours a day of eating method and the second study broadened it out and used twelve hour fasts. According to their info, the real benefit was being able to still eat as much as you did when you ate all day, but the fast keeps you free from metabolic syndrome by somehow giving your system a rest for those twelve hours. And it emphasized that it was strict. Even though you ate a lot during the eating part, nothing but water in the fasting part. No coffee, nothing. Anything other than water affected the whole thing.
Baron
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Yes. I have lost measurable body fat over the last two months and my goal is to get down to single digits before the end of the summer.
Before I did this diet, I was eating 6 small meals per day just like they tell you to do in the magazines. The primary problem with that way of living is that prepping food and eating it dominates your entire day, not to mention that you never feel full eating that way. And eating out of a tupperware every few hours gets old quick so I like how intermittent fasting allows me the flexibility of eating normally within a window of time that I define. Being the guy at the restaurant table who's eating grilled chicken with broccoli while everybody else is having a burger isn't the greatest feeling in the world. Intermittent fasting solves this problem.
I guess I'll have to remain skeptical. I don't really know anything about steroids or their equivalents, but I didn't think even they could give gains that fast. In any event, I can't imagine that kind of sudden change being good for the body, and it's not something that interests me personally. However, if anyone here plans on trying it, I would be curious to know in due course how they fare. So I hope those guys keep us apprised.
I started yesterday on a new workout plan to work on putting on some weight. I am 188lbs and would like to be 210 by the end of August or so. I have lost about 25lbs over the past 2 years (school full time @ night, work full time during day, and a toddler) just from a lack of time to workout and eat properly. I was 215 at my peak and 8.5% bf at that weight (caliper measured at the gym). I am really hoping muscle memory will be my friend and make getting back to that weight a bit easier than it was initially.
@Baron goodluck on the single digit bf%. I am a typical hardgainer type person. If I don't workout and try to eat as much as possible I lose weight quick, so can't give a ton of advice, but I will say the best luck I have had with leaning out is by stopping eating much earlier in the night and of course reducing my overall intake some. They say don't eat within 2 hours of bed, but I would eat dinner at 7 or 8 then not go to bed until 1 so quite a bit of time awake without eating. I have gotten down to 5% and thought it was awesome being so vascular and the abs etc, but it was definitely hard to maintain size while staying on the lower end of the bf spectrum.
Oh and HIIT training is good stuff also for dropping some fat.
@Baron goodluck on the single digit bf%. I am a typical hardgainer type person. If I don't workout and try to eat as much as possible I lose weight quick, so can't give a ton of advice, but I will say the best luck I have had with leaning out is by stopping eating much earlier in the night and of course reducing my overall intake some. They say don't eat within 2 hours of bed, but I would eat dinner at 7 or 8 then not go to bed until 1 so quite a bit of time awake without eating. I have gotten down to 5% and thought it was awesome being so vascular and the abs etc, but it was definitely hard to maintain size while staying on the lower end of the bf spectrum.
Oh and HIIT training is good stuff also for dropping some fat.
Interesting. One of the things I like about more, smaller meals is that I think my stomach shrunk a bit. I don't mean my waist, but the stomach itself. And so, it's now easier for me to get full than when I was more accustomed to eating larger meals less frequently. But, hey, whatever works, right? Perhaps I'll go back to my own homespun version of intermittent fasting in the future if I find I need some shaking up.
Baron, how are the workouts going? Have you adjusted volume or frequency since what you had reported in your old thread. Specifically, I'm curious to know how many resistance workouts you do per week and their duration; how many cardio workouts you do per week and their duration; how many times you work each muscle group per week; and, how many sets per muscle group per workout. Have you been tweaking any of these variables? I'm also curious to know how other members here who work out regularly weigh in on these variables.
I would neither want to look like a marathon runner nor be subject to the associated health risks.
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