Putting on muscle but not wanting those love handles back….????

SeanyBoyy1989

My biggest photo is from January this year and last photo is present day today from this mornings workout.. feel like some days when I’m looking the love handles look like they appear again and some days not, I don’t want them ever again, Just want to pack on muscle, I’m eating high protein foods and supplementing with creatine every day, But while building muscle how many times a week should I do cardio to keep the love handles off but still put on the muscle????

SeanyBoyy1989

Not sure why it’s posted multiple of the same photos I only selected the ones I wanted once, side view photo of arm is from this morning and one where I look fat as *kitten* is start of January

Retroguy2000

It's all about how far over maintenance calories you are. The more calories over maintenance, the more of your weight gain will be fat instead of muscle.

Jeff Nippard covered this stuff yesterday. Watch his video below.

I think you'd be better off in the 5%-10% surplus range rather than 10%-20%. So if that means a surplus of 200 calories say, yeah you could do cardio outside of the weights workouts if you want to keep ingesting +500 say, and burn off 300 with the cardio to get back in the right range, or you could cut 300 from your intake. If you aren't logging everything you ingest here diligently, you should start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7jIU_73ZaM

tomcustombuilder

Figure your maintenance calories an take in 200 a day over that. Cardio is just figured into your TDEE.

I_AM_ISRAEL

No need for cardio. Walk 10k steps a day.
Eat at a caloric deficit. If you plateau, choose to cut calories a little or do a little cardio.
Continue to lift 3-4 times a week if your a beginner, full body workouts.