Stomach fat?
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JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »I know I can’t spot reduce but I want a small waist so that’s what I’m saying like what workouts can help as I lose the weight? Like target and define the area.TavistockToad wrote: »Calorie deficit.
You can't spot reduce.
They don't exist. You can't target an area. If you're not happy with your shape, focus on a lifting program, but that doesn't guarantee that you're going to get a small waist.
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Welcome to being human. Genetics doesn't always give us the shape that we want. Work on recomp, and in accepting your shape.
I don’t wanna be that negative, I’ve seen so many transformations and they literally have a different shape because of the weights.
You won't know until you do it. Go do it. :flowerforyou:
I just can’t do it alone. Calorie deficit then following a lifting program, then work. Agh, how can I do this properly? I want this to be my year that I transform my body. It’s never happened before.
You don’t need to spend hours at the gym. 30 mins of lifting 4 days a week and remain in a calorie deficit. Do cardio if you want but it isn’t really necessary.
I don’t know to be honest I follow a lot of Instagram fitness girls and they do spend a lot of time there and bust their *kitten* off. That’s why they have their bodies.
No. They have good lighting and some have good genes. But it’s mostly fabricated.8 -
JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »I know I can’t spot reduce but I want a small waist so that’s what I’m saying like what workouts can help as I lose the weight? Like target and define the area.TavistockToad wrote: »Calorie deficit.
You can't spot reduce.
They don't exist. You can't target an area. If you're not happy with your shape, focus on a lifting program, but that doesn't guarantee that you're going to get a small waist.
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Welcome to being human. Genetics doesn't always give us the shape that we want. Work on recomp, and in accepting your shape.
I don’t wanna be that negative, I’ve seen so many transformations and they literally have a different shape because of the weights.
You won't know until you do it. Go do it. :flowerforyou:
I just can’t do it alone. Calorie deficit then following a lifting program, then work. Agh, how can I do this properly? I want this to be my year that I transform my body. It’s never happened before.
You don’t need to spend hours at the gym. 30 mins of lifting 4 days a week and remain in a calorie deficit. Do cardio if you want but it isn’t really necessary.
I don’t know to be honest I follow a lot of Instagram fitness girls and they do spend a lot of time there and bust their *kitten* off. That’s why they have their bodies.
No. They have good lighting and some have good genes. But it’s mostly fabricated.
How did you start noticing results?0 -
JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »I know I can’t spot reduce but I want a small waist so that’s what I’m saying like what workouts can help as I lose the weight? Like target and define the area.TavistockToad wrote: »Calorie deficit.
You can't spot reduce.
They don't exist. You can't target an area. If you're not happy with your shape, focus on a lifting program, but that doesn't guarantee that you're going to get a small waist.
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Welcome to being human. Genetics doesn't always give us the shape that we want. Work on recomp, and in accepting your shape.
I don’t wanna be that negative, I’ve seen so many transformations and they literally have a different shape because of the weights.
You won't know until you do it. Go do it. :flowerforyou:
I just can’t do it alone. Calorie deficit then following a lifting program, then work. Agh, how can I do this properly? I want this to be my year that I transform my body. It’s never happened before.
You don’t need to spend hours at the gym. 30 mins of lifting 4 days a week and remain in a calorie deficit. Do cardio if you want but it isn’t really necessary.
I don’t know to be honest I follow a lot of Instagram fitness girls and they do spend a lot of time there and bust their *kitten* off. That’s why they have their bodies.
I would recommend not following random women on the internet. There is too much junk out there. Go to the lifting link, pick a beginner program that looks interesting to you, follow it. Strong Lifts, Strong Curves, Thinner Leaner Stronger, All Pro. Don't overthink it.4 -
JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!
I’m just so naive to all of this, then I have a cardio class in the afternoon that’s 45 min long. What I strive for is to lose the weight and maintain my muscle because I don’t wanna be skinny fat. The thing is I’m fat from my upper body and kind of skinny from my lower body. So I wanna built up to have the ilusión of an hourglass but I can’t build right now since first I need to cut. I find this so complicated I swear. I am a failure at the always.
Go check out stronglifts.com. It is really simple.
It doesn’t sound simple to me
You think the way I’m doing it is not good?
You've said yourself you aren't getting the results you want...2 -
I’m not trying to complicate this but honestly it is difficult. I don’t have any knowledge to the lifting programs. What I like to do is train legs, then back and biceps; then legs again, then triceps shoulders; etc. But I feel I need to do cardio because I get tired too quick and I want to have better condition.0
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JanetReyna wrote: »I’m not trying to complicate this but honestly it is difficult. I don’t have any knowledge to the lifting programs. What I like to do is train legs, then back and biceps; then legs again, then triceps shoulders; etc. But I feel I need to do cardio because I get tired too quick and I want to have better condition.
But you are complicating things. Lift heavy, follow the program, modest calorie deficit, cardio if you want, profit.6 -
JanetReyna wrote: »I’m not trying to complicate this but honestly it is difficult. I don’t have any knowledge to the lifting programs. What I like to do is train legs, then back and biceps; then legs again, then triceps shoulders; etc. But I feel I need to do cardio because I get tired too quick and I want to have better condition.
An upper/lower split is fine, but I would recommend staying away from bodypart splits (chest day, leg day, back day etc) as they are not optimal for beginners.2 -
Yes,TavistockToad wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!
I’m just so naive to all of this, then I have a cardio class in the afternoon that’s 45 min long. What I strive for is to lose the weight and maintain my muscle because I don’t wanna be skinny fat. The thing is I’m fat from my upper body and kind of skinny from my lower body. So I wanna built up to have the ilusión of an hourglass but I can’t build right now since first I need to cut. I find this so complicated I swear. I am a failure at the always.
Go check out stronglifts.com. It is really simple.
It doesn’t sound simple to me You think the way I’m doing it is not good?
You've said yourself you aren't getting the results you want...
Yes, but I’m not in a calorie deficit, like I don’t track my calories and some days I eat so many junk. I do 205 on hip thrusts and 290 on leg press. I don’t wanna do a beginners because I feel I will lose all the strength I have gained and I don’t see none of those programs doing hip thrusts 1 -
JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »I know I can’t spot reduce but I want a small waist so that’s what I’m saying like what workouts can help as I lose the weight? Like target and define the area.TavistockToad wrote: »Calorie deficit.
You can't spot reduce.
They don't exist. You can't target an area. If you're not happy with your shape, focus on a lifting program, but that doesn't guarantee that you're going to get a small waist.
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Welcome to being human. Genetics doesn't always give us the shape that we want. Work on recomp, and in accepting your shape.
I don’t wanna be that negative, I’ve seen so many transformations and they literally have a different shape because of the weights.
You won't know until you do it. Go do it. :flowerforyou:
I just can’t do it alone. Calorie deficit then following a lifting program, then work. Agh, how can I do this properly? I want this to be my year that I transform my body. It’s never happened before.
You don’t need to spend hours at the gym. 30 mins of lifting 4 days a week and remain in a calorie deficit. Do cardio if you want but it isn’t really necessary.
I don’t know to be honest I follow a lot of Instagram fitness girls and they do spend a lot of time there and bust their *kitten* off. That’s why they have their bodies.
I would recommend not following random women on the internet. There is too much junk out there. Go to the lifting link, pick a beginner program that looks interesting to you, follow it. Strong Lifts, Strong Curves, Thinner Leaner Stronger, All Pro. Don't overthink it.
Did you do a program?1 -
JanetReyna wrote: »Yes,TavistockToad wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!
I’m just so naive to all of this, then I have a cardio class in the afternoon that’s 45 min long. What I strive for is to lose the weight and maintain my muscle because I don’t wanna be skinny fat. The thing is I’m fat from my upper body and kind of skinny from my lower body. So I wanna built up to have the ilusión of an hourglass but I can’t build right now since first I need to cut. I find this so complicated I swear. I am a failure at the always.
Go check out stronglifts.com. It is really simple.
It doesn’t sound simple to me You think the way I’m doing it is not good?
You've said yourself you aren't getting the results you want...
Yes, but I’m not in a calorie deficit, like I don’t track my calories and some days I eat so many junk. I do 205 on hip thrusts and 290 on leg press. I don’t wanna do a beginners because I feel I will lose all the strength I have gained and I don’t see none of those programs doing hip thrusts
Strong Curves0 -
JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »I know I can’t spot reduce but I want a small waist so that’s what I’m saying like what workouts can help as I lose the weight? Like target and define the area.TavistockToad wrote: »Calorie deficit.
You can't spot reduce.
They don't exist. You can't target an area. If you're not happy with your shape, focus on a lifting program, but that doesn't guarantee that you're going to get a small waist.
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Welcome to being human. Genetics doesn't always give us the shape that we want. Work on recomp, and in accepting your shape.
I don’t wanna be that negative, I’ve seen so many transformations and they literally have a different shape because of the weights.
You won't know until you do it. Go do it. :flowerforyou:
I just can’t do it alone. Calorie deficit then following a lifting program, then work. Agh, how can I do this properly? I want this to be my year that I transform my body. It’s never happened before.
You don’t need to spend hours at the gym. 30 mins of lifting 4 days a week and remain in a calorie deficit. Do cardio if you want but it isn’t really necessary.
I don’t know to be honest I follow a lot of Instagram fitness girls and they do spend a lot of time there and bust their *kitten* off. That’s why they have their bodies.
I would recommend not following random women on the internet. There is too much junk out there. Go to the lifting link, pick a beginner program that looks interesting to you, follow it. Strong Lifts, Strong Curves, Thinner Leaner Stronger, All Pro. Don't overthink it.
Did you do a program?
Strong Curves0 -
JanetReyna wrote: »Yes,TavistockToad wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!
I’m just so naive to all of this, then I have a cardio class in the afternoon that’s 45 min long. What I strive for is to lose the weight and maintain my muscle because I don’t wanna be skinny fat. The thing is I’m fat from my upper body and kind of skinny from my lower body. So I wanna built up to have the ilusión of an hourglass but I can’t build right now since first I need to cut. I find this so complicated I swear. I am a failure at the always.
Go check out stronglifts.com. It is really simple.
It doesn’t sound simple to me You think the way I’m doing it is not good?
You've said yourself you aren't getting the results you want...
Yes, but I’m not in a calorie deficit, like I don’t track my calories and some days I eat so many junk. I do 205 on hip thrusts and 290 on leg press. I don’t wanna do a beginners because I feel I will lose all the strength I have gained and I don’t see none of those programs doing hip thrusts
Why do you think you need to do hip thrusts?2 -
JanetReyna wrote: »Yes,TavistockToad wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!
I’m just so naive to all of this, then I have a cardio class in the afternoon that’s 45 min long. What I strive for is to lose the weight and maintain my muscle because I don’t wanna be skinny fat. The thing is I’m fat from my upper body and kind of skinny from my lower body. So I wanna built up to have the ilusión of an hourglass but I can’t build right now since first I need to cut. I find this so complicated I swear. I am a failure at the always.
Go check out stronglifts.com. It is really simple.
It doesn’t sound simple to me You think the way I’m doing it is not good?
You've said yourself you aren't getting the results you want...
Yes, but I’m not in a calorie deficit, like I don’t track my calories and some days I eat so many junk. I do 205 on hip thrusts and 290 on leg press. I don’t wanna do a beginners because I feel I will lose all the strength I have gained and I don’t see none of those programs doing hip thrusts
Strong Curves
So with strong curves I will get the results I want and lose weight?1 -
TavistockToad wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Yes,TavistockToad wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!
I’m just so naive to all of this, then I have a cardio class in the afternoon that’s 45 min long. What I strive for is to lose the weight and maintain my muscle because I don’t wanna be skinny fat. The thing is I’m fat from my upper body and kind of skinny from my lower body. So I wanna built up to have the ilusión of an hourglass but I can’t build right now since first I need to cut. I find this so complicated I swear. I am a failure at the always.
Go check out stronglifts.com. It is really simple.
It doesn’t sound simple to me You think the way I’m doing it is not good?
You've said yourself you aren't getting the results you want...
Yes, but I’m not in a calorie deficit, like I don’t track my calories and some days I eat so many junk. I do 205 on hip thrusts and 290 on leg press. I don’t wanna do a beginners because I feel I will lose all the strength I have gained and I don’t see none of those programs doing hip thrusts
Why do you think you need to do hip thrusts?
Bret Contreras swears by them, and I love doing them!1 -
JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »I know I can’t spot reduce but I want a small waist so that’s what I’m saying like what workouts can help as I lose the weight? Like target and define the area.TavistockToad wrote: »Calorie deficit.
You can't spot reduce.
They don't exist. You can't target an area. If you're not happy with your shape, focus on a lifting program, but that doesn't guarantee that you're going to get a small waist.
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Welcome to being human. Genetics doesn't always give us the shape that we want. Work on recomp, and in accepting your shape.
I don’t wanna be that negative, I’ve seen so many transformations and they literally have a different shape because of the weights.
You won't know until you do it. Go do it. :flowerforyou:
I just can’t do it alone. Calorie deficit then following a lifting program, then work. Agh, how can I do this properly? I want this to be my year that I transform my body. It’s never happened before.
You don’t need to spend hours at the gym. 30 mins of lifting 4 days a week and remain in a calorie deficit. Do cardio if you want but it isn’t really necessary.
I don’t know to be honest I follow a lot of Instagram fitness girls and they do spend a lot of time there and bust their *kitten* off. That’s why they have their bodies.
No. They have good lighting and some have good genes. But it’s mostly fabricated.
How did you start noticing results?
I noticed great results after week 4 of Strong Curves (Bootyful Beginnings). I’m on week 4 now of the Gluteal Goddess program after finishing 12 weeks of BB.0 -
JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Yes,TavistockToad wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!
I’m just so naive to all of this, then I have a cardio class in the afternoon that’s 45 min long. What I strive for is to lose the weight and maintain my muscle because I don’t wanna be skinny fat. The thing is I’m fat from my upper body and kind of skinny from my lower body. So I wanna built up to have the ilusión of an hourglass but I can’t build right now since first I need to cut. I find this so complicated I swear. I am a failure at the always.
Go check out stronglifts.com. It is really simple.
It doesn’t sound simple to me You think the way I’m doing it is not good?
You've said yourself you aren't getting the results you want...
Yes, but I’m not in a calorie deficit, like I don’t track my calories and some days I eat so many junk. I do 205 on hip thrusts and 290 on leg press. I don’t wanna do a beginners because I feel I will lose all the strength I have gained and I don’t see none of those programs doing hip thrusts
Strong Curves
So with strong curves I will get the results I want and lose weight?
You lose weight with a calorie deficit.
Results will depend on many factors. I can't really tell you that2 -
JanetReyna wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Yes,TavistockToad wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!
I’m just so naive to all of this, then I have a cardio class in the afternoon that’s 45 min long. What I strive for is to lose the weight and maintain my muscle because I don’t wanna be skinny fat. The thing is I’m fat from my upper body and kind of skinny from my lower body. So I wanna built up to have the ilusión of an hourglass but I can’t build right now since first I need to cut. I find this so complicated I swear. I am a failure at the always.
Go check out stronglifts.com. It is really simple.
It doesn’t sound simple to me You think the way I’m doing it is not good?
You've said yourself you aren't getting the results you want...
Yes, but I’m not in a calorie deficit, like I don’t track my calories and some days I eat so many junk. I do 205 on hip thrusts and 290 on leg press. I don’t wanna do a beginners because I feel I will lose all the strength I have gained and I don’t see none of those programs doing hip thrusts
Why do you think you need to do hip thrusts?
Bret Contreras swears by them, and I love doing them!
Isn't strong curves by him?3 -
TavistockToad wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Yes,TavistockToad wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!
I’m just so naive to all of this, then I have a cardio class in the afternoon that’s 45 min long. What I strive for is to lose the weight and maintain my muscle because I don’t wanna be skinny fat. The thing is I’m fat from my upper body and kind of skinny from my lower body. So I wanna built up to have the ilusión of an hourglass but I can’t build right now since first I need to cut. I find this so complicated I swear. I am a failure at the always.
Go check out stronglifts.com. It is really simple.
It doesn’t sound simple to me You think the way I’m doing it is not good?
You've said yourself you aren't getting the results you want...
Yes, but I’m not in a calorie deficit, like I don’t track my calories and some days I eat so many junk. I do 205 on hip thrusts and 290 on leg press. I don’t wanna do a beginners because I feel I will lose all the strength I have gained and I don’t see none of those programs doing hip thrusts
Why do you think you need to do hip thrusts?
Bret Contreras swears by them, and I love doing them!
Isn't strong curves by him?
Yup.3 -
@JanetReyna - You remind me of a friend of mine I've mentioned here before. He spent two years at ~255lbs telling me all the reasons he could never lose weight/gain muscle. Today it's been roughly two years since he actually got busy (all the suggestions I gave him I got from the folks here) and today, at about 176lbs, he's looking an awful lot like some of the guys you see on Men's Fitness covers.
Myself, if it helps at all, my belly fat is always the last to go. I've got decent arms, legs, shoulders back and chest, but there's this damn little pouch hanging off my belly ....
6 or so more lbs to go...
Look at it this way. No one here started off where they wanted to be. All had to start, and work for it, and take a look at some of their avatars. They did it. You can too. Less thinking. More measuring and lifting.
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@JanetReyna - You remind me of a friend of mine I've mentioned here before. He spent two years at ~255lbs telling me all the reasons he could never lose weight/gain muscle. Today it's been roughly two years since he actually got busy (all the suggestions I gave him I got from the folks here) and today, at about 176lbs, he's looking an awful lot like some of the guys you see on Men's Fitness covers.
Myself, if it helps at all, my belly fat is always the last to go. I've got decent arms, legs, shoulders back and chest, but there's this damn little pouch hanging off my belly .... 6 or so more lbs to go...
Look at it this way. No one here started off where they wanted to be. All had to start, and work for it, and take a look at some of their avatars. They did it. You can too. Less thinking. More measuring and lifting.
What suggestions did toy give him?0 -
You*0
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JanetReyna wrote: »@JanetReyna - You remind me of a friend of mine I've mentioned here before. He spent two years at ~255lbs telling me all the reasons he could never lose weight/gain muscle. Today it's been roughly two years since he actually got busy (all the suggestions I gave him I got from the folks here) and today, at about 176lbs, he's looking an awful lot like some of the guys you see on Men's Fitness covers.
Myself, if it helps at all, my belly fat is always the last to go. I've got decent arms, legs, shoulders back and chest, but there's this damn little pouch hanging off my belly .... 6 or so more lbs to go...
Look at it this way. No one here started off where they wanted to be. All had to start, and work for it, and take a look at some of their avatars. They did it. You can too. Less thinking. More measuring and lifting.
What suggestions did toy give him?
Eat in a deficit and follow an established lifting program3 -
1. Count calories as honestly as possible, eating normally for 1-2 weeks.JanetReyna wrote: »@JanetReyna - You remind me of a friend of mine I've mentioned here before. He spent two years at ~255lbs telling me all the reasons he could never lose weight/gain muscle. Today it's been roughly two years since he actually got busy (all the suggestions I gave him I got from the folks here) and today, at about 176lbs, he's looking an awful lot like some of the guys you see on Men's Fitness covers.
Myself, if it helps at all, my belly fat is always the last to go. I've got decent arms, legs, shoulders back and chest, but there's this damn little pouch hanging off my belly .... 6 or so more lbs to go...
Look at it this way. No one here started off where they wanted to be. All had to start, and work for it, and take a look at some of their avatars. They did it. You can too. Less thinking. More measuring and lifting.
What suggestions did toy give him?
2. Figure out his TDEE (easy to google calculators out there)
3. Start with a 2-300 calorie deficit and don't worry about macros at first.
4. Choose a lifting program and lift - he started with 5x5 and now does all AthleanX, various programs.
Over that twoish years he has had to adjust periodically, like his first major plateau at about 40lbs down. He actually began to lose weight again when he upped his calories to around 2100 a day.
I'm not certain of his exact numbers, but the point is he lifted, ate enough to maintain what muscle he could on a deficit, and was willing to be patient.
Pretty much what the folks here are saying. I think if you do the above, after a month or three you'll be asking yourself why you waited. Give it a go, you can do it.
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JanetReyna wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Yes,TavistockToad wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!
I’m just so naive to all of this, then I have a cardio class in the afternoon that’s 45 min long. What I strive for is to lose the weight and maintain my muscle because I don’t wanna be skinny fat. The thing is I’m fat from my upper body and kind of skinny from my lower body. So I wanna built up to have the ilusión of an hourglass but I can’t build right now since first I need to cut. I find this so complicated I swear. I am a failure at the always.
Go check out stronglifts.com. It is really simple.
It doesn’t sound simple to me You think the way I’m doing it is not good?
You've said yourself you aren't getting the results you want...
Yes, but I’m not in a calorie deficit, like I don’t track my calories and some days I eat so many junk. I do 205 on hip thrusts and 290 on leg press. I don’t wanna do a beginners because I feel I will lose all the strength I have gained and I don’t see none of those programs doing hip thrusts
Why do you think you need to do hip thrusts?
Bret Contreras swears by them, and I love doing them!
You know who Bret is, but lifting is so confusing?!?
Now I'm confused.8 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Yes,TavistockToad wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!
I’m just so naive to all of this, then I have a cardio class in the afternoon that’s 45 min long. What I strive for is to lose the weight and maintain my muscle because I don’t wanna be skinny fat. The thing is I’m fat from my upper body and kind of skinny from my lower body. So I wanna built up to have the ilusión of an hourglass but I can’t build right now since first I need to cut. I find this so complicated I swear. I am a failure at the always.
Go check out stronglifts.com. It is really simple.
It doesn’t sound simple to me You think the way I’m doing it is not good?
You've said yourself you aren't getting the results you want...
Yes, but I’m not in a calorie deficit, like I don’t track my calories and some days I eat so many junk. I do 205 on hip thrusts and 290 on leg press. I don’t wanna do a beginners because I feel I will lose all the strength I have gained and I don’t see none of those programs doing hip thrusts
Why do you think you need to do hip thrusts?
Bret Contreras swears by them, and I love doing them!
You know who Bret is, but lifting is so confusing?!?
Now I'm confused.
Why, lol?4 -
I wanted to link this other thread for you to read also.
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1161603/so-you-want-a-nice-stomach/p1
At the top of each forum is a "Most helpful threads" section and there's lots of good info in there 0 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Yes,TavistockToad wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!quiksylver296 wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »JanetReyna wrote: »Is it necessary to follow a program? I am it trying to bulk what I want is to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend following a program to ensure optimal progression and balance. Bulking or losing comes down to your intake. You want to be lifting as you lose especially to preserve muscle.
What program is there to follow?
I personally started with Stronglifts 5X5. Five lifts to learn, a free app that lays out your training days, lifts and weights for you, and only three days a week! Love, love, loved it!
I’m just so naive to all of this, then I have a cardio class in the afternoon that’s 45 min long. What I strive for is to lose the weight and maintain my muscle because I don’t wanna be skinny fat. The thing is I’m fat from my upper body and kind of skinny from my lower body. So I wanna built up to have the ilusión of an hourglass but I can’t build right now since first I need to cut. I find this so complicated I swear. I am a failure at the always.
Go check out stronglifts.com. It is really simple.
It doesn’t sound simple to me You think the way I’m doing it is not good?
You've said yourself you aren't getting the results you want...
Yes, but I’m not in a calorie deficit, like I don’t track my calories and some days I eat so many junk. I do 205 on hip thrusts and 290 on leg press. I don’t wanna do a beginners because I feel I will lose all the strength I have gained and I don’t see none of those programs doing hip thrusts
Why do you think you need to do hip thrusts?
Bret Contreras swears by them, and I love doing them!
You know who Bret is, but lifting is so confusing?!?
Now I'm confused.
LOL, I kind of understand where she's coming from. When I started the sheer number of program options and what each "promised" made it difficult to choose. I always felt something was lacking.0 -
1. Count calories as honestly as possible, eating normally for 1-2 weeks.JanetReyna wrote: »@JanetReyna - You remind me of a friend of mine I've mentioned here before. He spent two years at ~255lbs telling me all the reasons he could never lose weight/gain muscle. Today it's been roughly two years since he actually got busy (all the suggestions I gave him I got from the folks here) and today, at about 176lbs, he's looking an awful lot like some of the guys you see on Men's Fitness covers.
Myself, if it helps at all, my belly fat is always the last to go. I've got decent arms, legs, shoulders back and chest, but there's this damn little pouch hanging off my belly .... 6 or so more lbs to go...
Look at it this way. No one here started off where they wanted to be. All had to start, and work for it, and take a look at some of their avatars. They did it. You can too. Less thinking. More measuring and lifting.
What suggestions did toy give him?
2. Figure out his TDEE (easy to google calculators out there)
3. Start with a 2-300 calorie deficit and don't worry about macros at first.
4. Choose a lifting program and lift - he started with 5x5 and now does all AthleanX, various programs.
Over that twoish years he has had to adjust periodically, like his first major plateau at about 40lbs down. He actually began to lose weight again when he upped his calories to around 2100 a day.
I'm not certain of his exact numbers, but the point is he lifted, ate enough to maintain what muscle he could on a deficit, and was willing to be patient.
Pretty much what the folks here are saying. I think if you do the above, after a month or three you'll be asking yourself why you waited. Give it a go, you can do it.
I just think it’s too much calorie counting makes me stress out. AGH. Honestly I wish I could just have plastic surgery and be done with it lol. This is a lot harder than I thought to be honest.5 -
JanetReyna wrote: »
1. Count calories as honestly as possible, eating normally for 1-2 weeks.JanetReyna wrote: »@JanetReyna - You remind me of a friend of mine I've mentioned here before. He spent two years at ~255lbs telling me all the reasons he could never lose weight/gain muscle. Today it's been roughly two years since he actually got busy (all the suggestions I gave him I got from the folks here) and today, at about 176lbs, he's looking an awful lot like some of the guys you see on Men's Fitness covers.
Myself, if it helps at all, my belly fat is always the last to go. I've got decent arms, legs, shoulders back and chest, but there's this damn little pouch hanging off my belly .... 6 or so more lbs to go...
Look at it this way. No one here started off where they wanted to be. All had to start, and work for it, and take a look at some of their avatars. They did it. You can too. Less thinking. More measuring and lifting.
What suggestions did toy give him?
2. Figure out his TDEE (easy to google calculators out there)
3. Start with a 2-300 calorie deficit and don't worry about macros at first.
4. Choose a lifting program and lift - he started with 5x5 and now does all AthleanX, various programs.
Over that twoish years he has had to adjust periodically, like his first major plateau at about 40lbs down. He actually began to lose weight again when he upped his calories to around 2100 a day.
I'm not certain of his exact numbers, but the point is he lifted, ate enough to maintain what muscle he could on a deficit, and was willing to be patient.
Pretty much what the folks here are saying. I think if you do the above, after a month or three you'll be asking yourself why you waited. Give it a go, you can do it.
I just think it’s too much calorie counting makes me stress out. AGH. Honestly I wish I could just have plastic surgery and be done with it lol. This is a lot harder than I thought to be honest.
I'm gonna get real.
You can whine about it, or you can do something about it. One will get you results, one will still have you whining a year from now. Your choice.
You've gotten excellent advice from lots of people.16 -
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