Let's decide my Macro and caloric goals
Oflamez
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Calories 2,500 Protein 180 Carbs 250 Fat 83
I'm 182 cm / 6 foot
Current weight 106 kg.
I work out as much as I can recover from which is 3-6 weight lifting sessions and 2 games of indoor soccer weekly.
My goal is to gain muscle and lose fat. Now I'm expecting to lose fat more then gain muscle on 2500 calories.
My goal physique is that of a fitness "Model" . Basically like a bodybuilder without the drugs (Steroids).
Apart form working out I'm mostly sedentary. My weight lifting sessions ranged form 1 to 2 hours I noticed I overworked my CNS (Central nervous system) quiet often and will do less volume of training now and this week am gonna do legs twice as they are behind on strength, one workout - chest, back, shoulders, arms. Abs quiet often as I see it fit. Plus 2 games of indoor soccer.
I'm gonna go with 5 exercises of 3 sets, reps mostly 8 but can be up to 10 and rarely 12,
I'm 182 cm / 6 foot
Current weight 106 kg.
I work out as much as I can recover from which is 3-6 weight lifting sessions and 2 games of indoor soccer weekly.
My goal is to gain muscle and lose fat. Now I'm expecting to lose fat more then gain muscle on 2500 calories.
My goal physique is that of a fitness "Model" . Basically like a bodybuilder without the drugs (Steroids).
Apart form working out I'm mostly sedentary. My weight lifting sessions ranged form 1 to 2 hours I noticed I overworked my CNS (Central nervous system) quiet often and will do less volume of training now and this week am gonna do legs twice as they are behind on strength, one workout - chest, back, shoulders, arms. Abs quiet often as I see it fit. Plus 2 games of indoor soccer.
I'm gonna go with 5 exercises of 3 sets, reps mostly 8 but can be up to 10 and rarely 12,
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I'm going to try these macros out and the react accordingly to how my body responds0
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anybody ?0
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Sounds reasonable and the plan to try it for a while and see is what I'd recommend.0
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Oflamez wrote:Calories 2,500
Carbs 250
Fat 83
Protein 180
I'm 182 cm / 6 foot
Current weight 106 kg
This calculator from the Baylor College of Medicine will tell you not only your BMI, but how many servings of
various foods to eat to maintain that weight.
https://www.bcm.edu/cnrc-apps/healthyeatingcalculator/eatingCal.html
It says to maintain your current weight, if you are inactive, will take 2850 cal/day, but you have a BMI of 32.
82 kg puts you at the very top of a healthy weight range, BMI 24.8.
61 kg puts you just under the bottom, BMI of 18.4.
So just to have something to aim for, I'd suggest 75 kg. Upper half of the healthy weight range, realistic, achievable.
If you're inactive, that's 2000/day. Active about 1 hour a day is 2900. So 2500 is in the ballpark.
Now, for macros...
Here's a table which explains the healthy ranges, from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition:
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/88/1/1/T1.expansion.html
carbs, 45 - 65% of calories (4 cal per gram)
fat, 20 - 35% of calories (9 cal per gram)
protein, 10 - 35% of calories (4 cal per gram)
Starting with your 2500 cal / day
carbs 1125 - 1625 cal (281 - 406 g)
fat 500 - 875 (56 - 97 g)
protein 250 - 875 (63 - 219 g)
Play around within the healthy ranges, see where you feel best.
From what you'd suggested, all you'd need to do is up your carbs.
.My goal is to gain muscle and lose fat.
Now I'm expecting to lose fat more then gain muscle on 2500 calories.
To lose fat, eat at a slight calorie deficit & do cardio.
To gain muscle, eat at a slight calorie surplus, heavy on protein, and repeatedly lift / put down heavy things.
.I noticed I overworked my CNS (Central nervous system) quiet [sic] often
Has very little to do with muscles, other than transmitting signals to/from.
.My weight lifting sessions ranged form [sic] 1 to 2 hoursI'm gonna go with 5 exercises of 3 sets, reps mostly 8 but can be up to 10 and rarely 12
"To maintain your weight: work your way up to 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity, 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity aerobic activity, or an equivalent mix of the two each week."
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/physical_activity/index.html
(The page explains moderate & vigorous.)
For building muscle, you want to do 1 or 2 sets of 8-12 repetitions of a weight that's 70-85% of your 1RM.
(1-repetition maximum)
For building endurance, do 1 or 2 sets of 15-20 repetitions of a weight that's 50-65% of your 1RM.
Either way, start low on both weight & reps and work up.
You should just be able to do the last 2-3 reps.
When it gets easy to do the maximum # of reps, add 5 pounds and go back to the minimum # of reps.
(From the American College of Sports Medicine's book "Resources for the Personal Trainer, 4th edition".)0 -
I upped my calories you can check in my log it's public, I totally ate 400 grams of carbs my first day tracking and still woke up hungry. My gym work is strenuous, I will try to eat 3000 calories today and work my way to 2800 slowly, 2500 is too low for me. I'm good at bench press and set my new personal record yesterday, 1 rep 125 kg. After the gym I had only calories left for 1 scoop of whey in milk and 1 egg, was very hungry and added some food. Woke up hungry this morning.
So I'll do 3000 calories and work my way down to 2800 and see what happens.
As for my BMI I don't fit into this scheme as I'm building muscle and try to achieve a very muscular look, trimming down my fat. A lot of fitness models and natural bodybuilders have a high BMI due to their muscle mass, without having high body fat %.
Also I got a large skeleton, meaning very wide shoulders and very wide hips, plus my lower body naturally carries a lot of weight, my legs and glutes - I literally had thick legs before ever doing any squats and they are touching if I'm walking while my squatting numbers are comparable to people with medium sized or slim legs, bad squatter, doing legs twice this week to improve.
I will try to get down to 90 kg the following months so that is a weight loss of 16 kg, I'm gonna see at 95 kg what I look like and then very likely trim down more to 90 kg.
As for losing fat an building muscle at the same time being impossible - I don't believe that, don't take it personal or disrespectful, example - if someone eats maintenance calories and works out I think they drop body fat and build muscle. It's called sculpturing and is very unknown compared to bulking and cutting.
But I'm obviously doing a cut going from 106 kg to 95kg - 90 kg. But I expect to get stronger in the gym still.
So the following days I'll eat 3000 calories or if I'm really hungry up to 3200 and work my way down to 2800, keep 2800 for a few weeks and see if I'm losing weight.
Thanks guys for the fun participating in my thread0 -
MKEgal congratulations on your tremendous weight loss, checked your profile. Seems like you are form Germany unless you coincidental used the word "Egal", I love Germany.0
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