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glad someone agrees with me :wink:

might sound horrible to most, but i always keep a jar of pickled onions or guerkins handy. theres next to nothing in them, and great for nibbling on when your peckish. :smile:

so does the flabby skin tighten up over time? i only ask as i once weighed over 300lbs and since dropping down to 194lb ive got this bit of stretchy flappy skin at the bottom of my stomach which concerns me.

i meant it in the sense that, if it was something she did before she started dieting, then i wouldnt stress about adding those cals in her diary as its part of her normal daily activity.

focus more on diet and think of calories burnt through exercise as a bonus.

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most of my carbs first thing in the morning and more before before training. protein majority meals afternoon and evening. I subscribe to the "why eat carbs before you go asleep, and you dont need the energy" way of thinking.

^^^ agree with this

the idea of eating back calories is to allow you to reach your nutritional goals. ie, burning 200 cals on the treadmill means you can then have that protien shake to hit your protien goal for that day and still be under target overall, or thats my take on it. i dont eat back the majority of mine for the reason above, and…

i dont eat back my calories everyday if i can help it.... ...i like to save em for my cheat day at the weekend :)

150 more burnt than mfp says or less?

I never include strength trainnig in my diary, only cardio. I look at cals burnt doing weight training as a bonus.

currently, in this pic, im at 14-16% bf but want to go lower. wana see the bottom two, but having once been 22 stone of lard, i have a bit of loose skin around the bottom of my stomach... ..so i may never get the full 6. :(

i got this off a bodybuilding forum. i have a device at home now which measues BF and the two results for me are pretty close, hence my saying its pretty acurate. just incase anyone was doin it wrong heres an example.... if you weigh 150lbs and have a 29" waist - step 1 is (150 x 1,082) + 94,42 = 256,72 step 2 says that…

sorry, should of said that weights are in lbs and waist measurement is in inches.

heres how you calculate bodyfat. its a bit Maths teacher-ish but its accurate. multiply your bodywieght by 1.082 add the result to 94.42 once your calculation is done, save this number (BW x 1.082) + 94.42 as result 1. Multiply your waist girth by 4.15 and save result as result 2 subtract result 2 from Result 1 the result,…

yeah sorry ya thread went abit nutz. good luck with what ever you decide to do. end of the day, find what works best for you and give it hell. good luck.

I never told anyone not to lift heavy i never said it was "silly" i didnt tell you you wernt gettin stronger, how the hell would i know i didnt say your workout wasnt intense, again how would i know im not discouraging anyone, merely voicing an opinion which is what forums are about. as i said, words in my mouth.

now your just putting words in my mouth.

its whats worked for me in the past and ive stuck with it mate

all im saying is a higher intensity workout is more benificial at cutting up for the beach than a 5x5 program. my routine is based on compounds. if i do do any isolations, it'll be in a superset, ie i'll do clean n press/bicep curls ss. right now (my gettin ready for the beach phase), im doing 100's....trainning to…

being bulky and being muscular are two different things.

sorry guys... ...your NEVER gona convince me that a 5x5 is worth the effort in a defict. if i use a 5x5 i want to see gains not maintain.

. [/quote] dunno I'd probably call him 99% wrong? Half is generous. How exactly am I going to bulk doing a 5x5 program and not eating a surplus? Oh and if the answer is that you just can't DO 5x5 without eating a surplus then I am apparently using some kind of magical non-muscle related power to do so because on Sat I did…

so you lot are tellin me that its possible to gain muscle whilst in a calorific deficit????

Autum/Winter - Low Reps, High weight, No cardio, Loads of food = building muscle Spring Summer - High Reps, Lower Weight, loads of cardio, less food = beach body this has worked for me for years mate.

i agree :tongue:

should of said this at the start. would of avoided the debate. :laugh: :wink:

think we may have to agree to disagree on this.:wink: low reps high wieghts are for building strength which requires strengthening the muscle fibres...ie building and conditioning the muscle. doin this without a calorific excess is pointless. high reps low weight will shred the fat and condition/tone the existing muscle…

carbs before or during training for energy... ...protein + carbs after training for recovery.