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Originally Posted by Suareezay
Human physiology says your friends are wrong.
When you say you want to 'lose your love handles and tighten your stomach area', what that actually translates to is leaning out/losing bodyfat. Your goal then is a bodyfat of about 10%. You should be able to accomplish this with minimal/no muscle loss. Its lean enough to be devoid of most/all love handles, but not really 'cut.' Any leaner and performance, hormones, and immune system function may begin to suffer. Sub-10% bodyfat is also treading into 'cut' territory, which isnt your goal.
You may want to look into doing stomach vacuums. I have no clue if they actually accomplish anything, but Ive seen people throw around the idea that they can tighten up your stomach.
Life: Its full of compromises.
FWIW, I would look into Intermittent Fasting. If set up properly, balancing caloric deficits on off days and caloric surpluses on training days could allow you to slowly lose the love handles while maintaining/gaining strength/muscle. This isnt 'gaining fat and losing muscle at the same time', its more like micro-bulk/cut periods. You may not be familiar enough with your caloric needs to really be successful with it, but here is a link to look over: http://leangains.blogspot.com/ |
So wait, your telling me that the days I lift I should eat a lot (obviously healthy) but high calorie, protein, carbs, etc..
and the days I DONT lift I have a strict diet of 2,000 calories or less?
I just want to get an idea of what you were saying and how this will make me lose weight around my stomach. Im going to check out the link later after I get home from school.
Also, if what your saying is true, for the days I have no lifting and I eat less do i still put 1g of protein for every pound in my body?