Muscle building help

Ya, you can maybe maintain your muscle while losing fat, but you won't build more muscle and see a tremendous fat loss. I promise you... I've tried both ways. You either need to focus on Weights to build a very solid muscle mass and, therefore, do less cardio.... OR focus on fat loss, get your body fat % way down and then start "bulking" your muscle on a calorie surplus. You probably know this, but you need to be knockin' back the protein as well w/ healthy fats. I'd recommend checking out bodybuilding.com because this site is much more geared towards weight loss.

My personal opinion is that you need to have a solid lifting routine, but still eat at a calorie deficit and do plenty of cardio in order to get your body fat % down. Thats the only way you'll get 'cut'. Once the muscles are poppin, then you can think about adding mass and going into a calorie surplus to build up from. BTW, I'm a 6ft, 171 (lost 27 lbs of both fat and muscle) and I'm eating 2200 to 2900 cals a day trying now to start the muscle building phase. My fat continues to burn off as my muscle mass VERY slowly grows. But I had to get to this point before I started eating way more... and my body def needs it. At 2000-2500 cals a day, I was still losing weight.

I hope that helps and feel free to add me. Bodybuilding.com is a great site, but it could possibly only confuse you more. As always, you have to wonder through the bad ideas to find the important/good ones.

I screwed up. That was my old workout routine. That's not my current. This is what I do.

Mon - biceps, triceps abs 40 min cardio
Tues - shoulders and legs ( light bike just to warm the body up)
Wed - chest and back then yoga with the g/f
Thur- shoulders triceps abs 40 min cardio
Fri- chest and back 40 min cardio

How does that sound? Yes I understand that I can't be lean and cut and build at the same time. I def will not use steroids and do not want to be a big body builder. Just want to find a happy medium.

It looks OK. Its not what I would do, but I don't expect everyone to do what I would do either. The only change I would make is to not do chest and back on the same days. There are so many different muscles within your back and so many angles you should hit your chest w/ that its alot of total reps (and alot of stress). I do 1-3 muscle groups a day and each muscle group only once a week so that I can max them out w/ plenty of recovery, but again... see if what you have works and switch it up if not. Its hard to critique because you'll figure more of it out as you go along. I didn't have a clue to begin with either, but over a month or so it became pretty clear... Just continue researching it outside of MFP, try to use complex exercises w/ free weights, try to max out your weights, eat TONS of protein, and I'd suggest mixing some HIIT in instead of the cardio once in awhile.

You'll get alot of lifters telling you to do no cardio (or not nearly as much as you're doing), but whatever... something well balanced is all you need at this point. Once the BF % gets down then you can dig into the really heavy lifting. I'd just say to be careful w/ the cardio so that you're not burning too much muscle.