I feel like I am at a total crossroads.
I started old. Well, older. I am 34 and almost 35 years old now and about 3.5 years ago I was 205 lb of fat and had no physical fitness level.
Through various ways I dieted this down to 150 lbs in a year or so of work and then started different approaches to training, from leangains to complicated as fuk lyle mcdonald protocols.
All this dieting and training and dieting and training and honestly I have a decent BASE, with me focusing on free weights and but big lifts (deads, military press, bench, squat) for the time, and now I sit here... Just sit and wonder where I go from here.
I am not a "bodybuilder" and I find it incredibly frustrating to try and gain weight. Through the entire time I abused the hell out of myself with bad food, never did I think of how it would lead to the fat coming back when I would try and gain muscle later on in life.
That haunts me and each time I try and work towards a goal, I shoot from 10 or 12% bodyfat to 15 or 18% in a short time.
I have tried various approaches. When I was younger years ago and living away from family for an extended period, leangains and crazy neurotic dieting was great. I saw results and the extreme control was not an issue.
Now though, I have learned a few things.
1. Carbs are never going to be much of a friend to me. They will create growth and I will have a lot of fat at the same time. I have to live with this.
2. My fat cells are still there, they just shrunk, so weight GAINING has to be very meticulously measured and monitored and diet must be clever (see point #1)
3. I do indeed count calories. I am 2750 maintenance so please dont throw the "you dont eat right" argument out.
I have done
Stronglifts
Starting Strength
Leangains RPT
Big Beyond Belief
Layne Norton PHAT
Lyle McDonald Generic Bulking
German Volume Training
as well as the protocol in unreal diet 2.0 and my own volume routine.
So here I sit. Thinking that this is a good way to go.
My idea is simple. I am sitting at 170 lb completely carb dehydrated.
Run the program using a CKD similar to anabolic diet with a 2 day carb load.
Run it the way it is intended. No changing things as people are apt to do.
See myself lean out.
Use the weekend free eating days to sustain the workouts through the week of lowered carbs.
I know how I'll feel and generally feel great on reduced carbs so the weekend should be a good anabolic driver.
Then increase calories and get bigger, stronger.
So there are some thoughts.
This is my 4th post, my first i have created.
Hope someone notices.
I started old. Well, older. I am 34 and almost 35 years old now and about 3.5 years ago I was 205 lb of fat and had no physical fitness level.
Through various ways I dieted this down to 150 lbs in a year or so of work and then started different approaches to training, from leangains to complicated as fuk lyle mcdonald protocols.
All this dieting and training and dieting and training and honestly I have a decent BASE, with me focusing on free weights and but big lifts (deads, military press, bench, squat) for the time, and now I sit here... Just sit and wonder where I go from here.
I am not a "bodybuilder" and I find it incredibly frustrating to try and gain weight. Through the entire time I abused the hell out of myself with bad food, never did I think of how it would lead to the fat coming back when I would try and gain muscle later on in life.
That haunts me and each time I try and work towards a goal, I shoot from 10 or 12% bodyfat to 15 or 18% in a short time.
I have tried various approaches. When I was younger years ago and living away from family for an extended period, leangains and crazy neurotic dieting was great. I saw results and the extreme control was not an issue.
Now though, I have learned a few things.
1. Carbs are never going to be much of a friend to me. They will create growth and I will have a lot of fat at the same time. I have to live with this.
2. My fat cells are still there, they just shrunk, so weight GAINING has to be very meticulously measured and monitored and diet must be clever (see point #1)
3. I do indeed count calories. I am 2750 maintenance so please dont throw the "you dont eat right" argument out.
I have done
Stronglifts
Starting Strength
Leangains RPT
Big Beyond Belief
Layne Norton PHAT
Lyle McDonald Generic Bulking
German Volume Training
as well as the protocol in unreal diet 2.0 and my own volume routine.
So here I sit. Thinking that this is a good way to go.
My idea is simple. I am sitting at 170 lb completely carb dehydrated.
Run the program using a CKD similar to anabolic diet with a 2 day carb load.
Run it the way it is intended. No changing things as people are apt to do.
See myself lean out.
Use the weekend free eating days to sustain the workouts through the week of lowered carbs.
I know how I'll feel and generally feel great on reduced carbs so the weekend should be a good anabolic driver.
Then increase calories and get bigger, stronger.
So there are some thoughts.
This is my 4th post, my first i have created.
Hope someone notices.
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