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It is possible. If you aren't activating one set of muscles as much as the other, that is likely the cause, and will continue to get more lopsided as one muscle surpasses the other. I was on Stronglifts for awhile myself, and it was a great program, but a bit too rigid for too long. Might be beneficial to pause the program…

Adding to other posters: Should you choose you want to reduce fat, you can't specifically spot reduce fat anywhere. That is the Dr. Oz equivalent of broscience. Your genetics pick where you are going to store fat. The only way to loose belly fat is to loose fat in general and hope it comes from there. Eventually it will…

+1. A program is essential when you are new to lifting. And most of your gainz in the beginning come from neural adaptation (what psulemon called muscular efficiency) where your body is getting better at recruiting already existing muscle fiber. It won't really add any new muscle until this process has essentially maxed…

Agree with other posters. Just keep bumping your calories up every week until you see a consistent gain. Your weight might fluctuate a lot as you eat more, so the first couple weeks of weight data are not very helpful. Eventually you will be able to see the overall trend over time though.

HIIT is great for fat loss, sure. It's not going to help preserve your muscle though. Regarding the resistance, no it doesn't have to be in a gym, but it needs to be roughly the same weight you were using before. You decrease your volume a bit, maybe 10-15% less than your normal workouts, but the weights need to stay the…

It's not exactly the same thing. Cutting is intent to lose purely body fat, without muscle loss. People on a general weight loss goal don't necessarily care what the weight is. If you goal is to lose weight, you just drop your cals. If you do this without taking other measures on a cut, you will likely lose a big chunk of…

Your weight is going to fluctuate like mad on a bulk OP. You need to give your weight measurements weeks to find the underlying trend. A couple of days of data is not going to show you anything. Do not be tempted to just start dumping more calories on, extra fat for no reason is not what you want.

Glad somebody else is on the same page. That article is super misleading and and a newbie might read that, think its legit and applies to them too, and start on a path to a terribly disappointing "dreamer bulk". If it sounds too good to be true, it likely is.

Depends on what you want really. You are likely going to burn more calories in a class setting with lots of reps and such, which would be good for fat loss. You can do that outside of a class too, but some people need that kind of structure. If you want strength gains and to build muscle tone, you need to lift weights that…

Just a quick add for why people choose a slightly higher surplus than the touted 250. Normal logging errors can really whittle away that surplus and put you into maintenance when that isn't what you were shooting for. Bit more fat gain potential, for sure, but much better chances at staying in a optimal surplus for…

What I was implying was muscle gain. I see how that would be confusing, yes, as you are going to put on weight regardless if you are eating in a surplus. A good training program would help it be the more desired kind of weight. There. Fixed. But I stand by my statement that 1x per week training on a muscle group is not…

Um. The word "calorie" or "deficit" are not even in my response lol. I didn't even mention it. Seriously, Ctrl+F and check my statement. Not a word in there. I was asking about his training routine. Did you respond to the right person?

Well that may not entirely be true. OP, when you say 8-day split, what exactly does that entail? Reps are not the important part so much as frequency during the week. When you say 8-day split, it makes me think you are doing a single body part, for 1 hour, each day. This might be why you are stuck. This kind of training…

Somatypes are bull: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZdpKEUgFuTw Just keep increasing cals by 100 every two weeks until your plateau busts. You aren't eating as much as you think, or your activity cals are higher than what you think. Pretty simple.