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I always try to get in 1 g per 1 lb of body weight for daily protein, whether it's too much or not to me doesn't matter to me it's better to eat more than enough protein than not enough. And like everyone has said, work on the main compound lifts to start out and split up the body parts how you see fit, I've changed my…

What's ABP?

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Ice cream shakes?

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Use either Heavy Cream, Peanut butter possibly, or Flax seed oil, which I really like.

Sounds good, remember to try and beat the previous week so if you can sqeeze in more than 6, do it and then know it's time to add on some weight. People tend to make the mistake by doing 6 and racking the weight, you can do that, shorten your rest periods, or do more sets, but I like to see how many reps I can do with…

I know what type of look you're going for, part of it is genetics, the other is going to be bulking with a good solid lifting routine. 2,600 I don't think is going to cut it, try increasing around 3,000 a day, limit cardio, and perform mostly multi joint or compound lifts, try to improve in either reps, weight, sets,…

Why isn't a trap bar good for deadlifts? Just curious, I've used trap bar for deadlifts and find it much more comfortable and seems to provide similar benefits of the exercise?

Everyone says what you say, yes they are not 100% accurate, BUT the way I see it is that if you're monitoring trends, so if you want to see how much your bf % has decreased or increased it works, if you use the same device and are consistent. Plus how inaccurate can they be, maybe by 2-3%? Plus I have yet to find a…

I"d say like 18-20. Honestly you really should get a handheld bf % device, it's easy to use and it's not that expensive plus you'll want to monitor your bf % throughout your progress, it's super difficuilt to just eye ball, not to mention, height and weight have a lot do with it too. If you google image body fat % for men…

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If you want to build muscle, I don't think 100 g of protein a day is enough for that....

you're right, doesn't help build muscle, but helps keep fat gain at a minimum though, at least it has helped for me

Okay so it seems that you have this idea that your protein amount should be different while losing weight vs building muscle. Protein amount should be high regardless because you probably already have muscle in your body and whatever muscle you do have currently even if it's beneath layers of fat it's still muscle that…

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Right there with you! haha. Peanut Butter and Little Debbies help fill in those calorie gaps. I wish I could do 4300! Wow!

oh okay gotya.

Oh okay, so when you decrease the reps, do you increase the weight, or keep weight the same?

I actually agree with you on that one, I hate cardio too. Is your lifting routine any different when you're cutting or do you keep it the same too?

Also I think that neck and trap thickness involve gaining more overall mass which I think you could do. You're body fat appears to be around 5% ish I'd say based on pics but I really don't know. You could go on a bulk to gain some more muscle mass and while you'll be bigger overall, but your neck and traps will grow too.…

Hey! So I know that most people don't do this, but I do shoulders and traps twice a week, well I actually do everything twice a week except arms because I hit arms from compound exercises throughout the week, anyways I've developed bigger traps over time from doing this. One day I do high rep shoulders and I superset my…

Metabolic rate if I'm correct is also known as your BMR or Basic Metabolic Rate, you should always be above that because that's the amount of calories you burning simply by being alive, you need to find out what your TDEE is which is the amount of calories you burn on a daily basis based on a number of factors, I believe…

Definetly start a beginner lifting routine though that includes, Squat, dead lift, bench, shoulder press, and rows. bodybuilding.com has lots of good routines to try out.

ok, so you're saying diet and lifting alone will be enough to cut body fat? Also when I say cardio I mean like HIIT, boxing, etc...not long long distance running.

The key is to not go into a major deficit enough to lose muscle mass, but a deficit is necessary plus some cardio, and increase protein more than you would consume normally, the goal is to preserve the muscle you have while trying to cut down body fat/lose weight.

My legs have gotten stronger and I have gotten stronger overall, I don't squat, I leg press instead and have made progress with the leg press. I agree Squat is a great exercise but leg press works my entire lower body just fine and gets the job done, I'm happy with myself that I even do legs lol.

Wow, 820, that's awesome!! I'm around 610-620 for a good 5-6 reps, but feel some pain in my lower back sometimes after.