Reducing body fat whilst gaining lean muscle

jbeatty_48

Hi, my body fat percentage is already quite low, but I was just wondering what the best way is that I could reduce it further so that my abs are more visible whilst also building lean muscle mass.

jmackkk

Whats your BFP? How long have you been working out? What types of work outs? Whats your diet like? The leaner you are the harder it is to cutt and gain mass at the same time. Its “possible” but could be very difficult if your already pretty lean.

jbeatty_48

I'm around 14%, so my abs are visible but it depends on the lighting really. I've been working out for about 2 years, although I was out injured for a lot of that so it hasn't been very consistent, but they've been mostly been regular body building routines mixed with some cardio. My diet could be improved upon, I generally eat healthily but my calorie intake is quite often too low. Yeah it's been really difficult to lose anymore fat, it was going really fast but I've not seen any progress for months now, do yo have any suggestions as to what I could do? Thanks.

jmackkk

Cutting is going to be diet, diet and more diet. If you want to loose fat to show the abs more get the diet in check and dialed in. If your are not taking in enough calories while doing “body building” work outs. Your not going to make much progress. Probably why you have stalled. Could be taking in maintenance cals and not enough to gain but not little enough to loose. Remember Surplus, maintinance, deficiency.

As far as work out. Id swap the body building stuff for the HIIT training. Did great for me when I was doing it. Should also provide enough resistance and stuff so you dont loose to much mass. Just ideas, your milage may vary.

jbeatty_48

Thanks, yeah i'll definitely start to work on my diet more, I could probably increase my protein intake more so I will do that. HIIT training sounds good, so I'll also give that a go, should I also continue to lift weights alongside it? Because I am still a bit too skinny to be honest.