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Clueless about strength training and gaining muscle
Ok, so I recently lost 30 pounds and now I'm very slim but definitely what you would call "skinny fat". It's all thanks to too much cardio and very little weight training, and now I want to change that. I want to get more muscle and lose that jiggle, but I'm clueless on where to start. I started doing kickboxing two times…
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Fitbit treadmill calories???
I use the treadmill at 4mph at an incline of 5%, and I've found that my fitbit actually says I burn MORE calories when I don't log it as a separate activity (treadmill, 5% incline, 4mph). Just the step count alone gives me more calories per hour than actually logging in the incline factor. I find this really weird, since I…
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Too large of a calorie deficit?
Alright, so I've managed to lose nearly 30 pounds since the new year, which I now realize happened WAAAY too fast and wasn't as healthy as it could've been if i had taken it slower, but, that aside, I'm still not quite at my goal weight of 125. I have been eating the standard MFP recommended 1200 and burning around…
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Going below 1200 Calories if calorie cycling???
So I've been thinking about trying out calorie cycling, as I've heard it works really well for some. I eat generally 1300-1400 calories per day without any cycling, so on a weekly basis around 9500 calories. If I did, say 1500 calories on one day, and then 1100 the next, would that still be a bad idea since it gets bumped…
