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You can lose weight and gain muscle if you are a newbie to fitness. It's what many call the "noobie gains." But after some time that becomes difficult, and then you'll start noticing a plateau. Once this occurs you'll have to balance cutting, bulking and maintaining.
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For anyone still reading this thread: Your plateau can break by a simple diet change and increase in activity. You first have to understand that the only way to lose weight is to eat less in calories than your total daily energy expenditure (TDEE). For example my current TDEE is about 2818 calories/day. To lose weight I…
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It may be form as well. Squeeze your shoulder blades closer together and down. This takes your anterior delts out of the movement a little bit more, which should make your triceps and pecs work a little harder. Give it a try, if that doesn't work than just stick to DB bench.
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Welcome!
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Really a mix of things. Primarily hip hop, all kinds of electronic music (don't know what to call it I don't really listen to this genre unless at the gym), old school funk, some rock, and some upbeat top 40s
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Awesome! Keep it up!
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Well, for me personally I weighed 185 lbs a little less than a year ago. The first 10 pounds melted away like butter, but for the past two months I've kind of been doing what you have been doing, staying at about a constant weight within 5 pounds. However in that time I've dropped my body fat percentage. Another thing you…
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If you're trying to lose weight, other than the great suggestions above, try doing high intensity interval training.
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What could also be happening as well is your body composition is changing. You're losing fat weight and building muscle weight in your legs. Personally for me I only lost 2 pounds in two months, however I lost 8 pounds of fat and gained 6 pounds of lean muscle mass.
