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Pardon my ignorance, if I do a PPL split wouldn't I just be doing like chest and triceps on that particular push day anyway?

Springlering62. Appreciate the kind words. It is a mess but a different kind of mess that I'm not too overly worried about just know there is a lot of hard work still needed which I'm happy to work on. As for a full body program I was under the impression that THEY were usually for beginners? I had done a few month of…

Thanks for your support. I am not in full panic mode yet don't worry. I'm still doing some form of resistance training It may or may not be a good idea I dont know. I'm definitely not athletic level I know this. I do find myself good at walking as slow state cardio. Can keep up around the 4.2-4.5 mph walking for a long…

Sorry to bump this topic up. Since I was last here. I am loving the advice folks as always. Always listening. It seems I'm in a wierd place right now. My blood pressure is low when I'm sitting and it normalises when I stand up which according to the doctor is the reverse of what usually happens to everyone else. Also the…

Thanks sijomial. If you're agreeing with what the doc says. I know you know your stuff. I'll add on some calories to what I've been having recently.

Hmm. I do have crohn's disease and vitamin b12 and calcium is something that isn't absorbed all that well in my system. So I supplement. I've also had b12 injections before. I eat a rediculous amount of chicken. Eat plenty of eggs and usually weetabix for cereal. I'm surprised this wasn't picked up on the appointment. My…

I knew as soon as I posted the question it would be controversial and I wasn't wrong. To answer a few questions I'm male obviously, 6ft 1 and currently 159lbs or 73kgs. I don't have a job currently which I lost in January so I'm missing out on my neat activity from that as it was a busy job doing between 10000 - 15000…

My experience is fairly limited. I've been to a few gyms here and there. More recently I've learning more about perfect form and still learning about hypertrophy and progressive overload. I'm currently skinny fat. I'm looking for something around 15% bodyfat just mainly because I don't feel the need to dedicate a 32 day…

Non lyrical music, fantastic suggestion! As much as I love music, it means a lot to me personally and is sort of connected to what I'm going through. But like you said, it sometimes does allow negative thoughts to creep in. I did have a brilliant day on Sunday, got a really big nice workout complete with a range of…

I'm impressed with the results you had. From your left picture I'm starting at a slightly worse body fat pc than you even with the less weight. I'm still a newbie to it all so most of what you said went right over my head haha. I'm still learning. If I even make it to half of what your right picture is now I'd be happy. I…

I think to lose the fat on my stomach by losing weight I fear I'd be underweight. I'm 6ft and 72.5kgs at the moment. My target was in the range of 70kg to 71kg. I'm currently skinny fat so working on building strength and muscle at the moment which I know is a little bit difficult on a calorie deficit Some good…

Thank you. Can you please go into more detail of what you found fun? I'm intrigued to hopefully find it fun as well. I've enjoyed the ride so far, the compliments are always nice. I'm looking forward to maybe joining some classes next year when things hopefully settle down and are actually open and on so to speak

Like most, towards the end of the first uk lockdown. I had spent most of it in the house and muscles almost fading away. I started walking and reducing my calorie intake. When I started I was struggling at 2 miles of walking. Several months later I've been known to do a few 10-12 mile walks at a very brisk pace for most of…

Your advice is good thanks. I'm just going by mfp from Saturday past. Because I did some running/walking for 86mins. covered a good few miles with basically easy cardio. It upped my protein goal to 212g believe it or not. I missed the goal anyway.

I get ya I understand. But I think otherwise I've been losing too much weight too quickly some weeks. And yeah it's at the end of the night I've been snacking. Don't want to over do it middle of the day. I don't eat all of my exercise calories back mostly only 200-300. Today's exercise according to my watch was 672…

Thanks again people. I hear you all loud and clear. More effort required with the weight training. I'll mix it up with bodyweight and compound movements. I also have the resistance bands that I've found good as well.

Wow I'm very impressed with some of the advice on here. To answer a few questions. sijomial I will make sure I hit the protein goals and train as hard as I can. Unfortunately I'm in Scotland so our leader decided to do things backwards from the rest of the UK. So gyms open middle of December at the earliest I think.…

Believe it or not yes in the morning after the toilet and a shower is when I measure. Im not certain of the overall measurement journey. I really can't remember if at the start I measured at 40" but I didn't keep a great track of it at the start and I wish I did. I'll try to measure other areas

Some good advice here. Out with the isolation exercises mostly and in with the compound ones. That's a change coming may way. I feel like I'm eating enough. (maybe not enough of the best stuff I admit) still mostly at a deficit. So on lifting days I'll try to increase thata little Now I'm not the biggest fan of barbells.…

This is the book. Shows every muscle used, how to do the exercise. Watch to look out for and what to avoid. I'm hoping I can't really go wrong with this one. Fantastic book apart from the fact they decided to draw in the ladies nipples slightly weird if you ask me

OK thanks again. This is such a nice community here, All the advice is brill. I'm in it for the long haul! I'm always making sure I eat plenty of protein to keep the muscle there and build as well

Yeah sorry I'll clear up what had happened it was maybe 5 months. And then I had a bad breakup with my then girlfriend in month 2 (July) So for about a week and a half I was barely eating at all, you know how it is. Sadness and such. So there I guess I lost a bit of muscle from malnutrition Not looking for the sob story…

Thanks for the honesty. I kinda guessed the scales were way off. I suppose they are good for tracking a trend though. I didn't go into much detail as I should have. My cardio is more than walking. I've built up in the last 4 months a good 18kg weight loss and I'm now running to just over a mile running without stopping…

I have crohn's disease which might affect me later in life with osteoporosis. So I might use this as a work around to getting a dexa scan at some point.

160lbs for me. Im only about 5lbs off. But even then my belly is still on the big side. I don't know if I should continue to lose weight to see if the fat drops or concentrate more on body recomposition, any suggestions?

Yeah I guess I may have slightly over exaggerated the plateau then it's been around 3 weeks now. I guess it's surprised me as I was almost on a roll. Trust me I'm not trying to ignore resistance training. As I can see small changes in some arm and shoulder muscles. I am trying to up the training. It's very annoying that…

So there is a good possibility like yesterday I think I had 1900 calories from food that I am under eating then by possible quite a bit? Maybe even stalling my progress?

Top left is 2,300 so this is my goal with being active? Should I aim to be 250/500 under this or is that included as well?

Wow thank you for the quick replies. All very helpful so a nice community here. All my exercise has been mostly walking so far, most times 5 mile and over up to 8 mile. Just recently started adding in a bit of jogging as well as my fitness levels went a bit downhill. Before lockdown had started, I was at 94kg and now I'm…