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SteelWeaver
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Ah hah! You figured out the secret handshake! lol!
I increase low GI carbs when trying to gain. I don't have any specific maintenance bf%. At the moment I'm sort of trying to normalise my metabolism, bf% etc after almost a year of hard dieting last year. I'm higher than I wanted to be, but working on bringing it down a bit then maintaining somewhere around there while gaining LBM. Of course there'll be the irritating fact of gaining fat too, but my goal for this year (and probably next) is to find a system through experimentation that will allow me to stay within a fairly narrow bf% range and still gain LBM easily enough. And not feel like I'm depriving myself all the time.
I'm vegetarian, not vegan. My main protein sources are fat free cottage cheese, tofu and egg whites. I don't much care for the egg whites, so when I'm feeling quite sick of them I just drop protein consumption somewhat. Hasn't affected gains at all. I don't eat much tofu when dieting because of the high fat content. I have a whey shake post w/o and occasionally use a soy/casein/egg protein blend during the day when I haven't had time to make all my meals, or am just sick of the usual.
I don't eat any protein bars ever because they cost an arm and a leg here, and most of them are full of junk anyway.
Try chick peas, lentils, soy beans, broad beans, haricots, kidney beans etc etc for other low GI carbs - you don't have to ONLY eat oats and sweet potatoes - that can't be very healthy, physically or mentally - eating exactly the same stuff every single day.
Yah, and don't do too much cardio. I wish I could go along and just be around 12% fat. Gosh! I have to practically kill myself to get down there. Even if you add a bit of fat while adding muscle, it'll just make your overall look sleeker - fuller muscle bellies sort of thing. Don't worry about that too much.
I increase low GI carbs when trying to gain. I don't have any specific maintenance bf%. At the moment I'm sort of trying to normalise my metabolism, bf% etc after almost a year of hard dieting last year. I'm higher than I wanted to be, but working on bringing it down a bit then maintaining somewhere around there while gaining LBM. Of course there'll be the irritating fact of gaining fat too, but my goal for this year (and probably next) is to find a system through experimentation that will allow me to stay within a fairly narrow bf% range and still gain LBM easily enough. And not feel like I'm depriving myself all the time.
I'm vegetarian, not vegan. My main protein sources are fat free cottage cheese, tofu and egg whites. I don't much care for the egg whites, so when I'm feeling quite sick of them I just drop protein consumption somewhat. Hasn't affected gains at all. I don't eat much tofu when dieting because of the high fat content. I have a whey shake post w/o and occasionally use a soy/casein/egg protein blend during the day when I haven't had time to make all my meals, or am just sick of the usual.
I don't eat any protein bars ever because they cost an arm and a leg here, and most of them are full of junk anyway.
Try chick peas, lentils, soy beans, broad beans, haricots, kidney beans etc etc for other low GI carbs - you don't have to ONLY eat oats and sweet potatoes - that can't be very healthy, physically or mentally - eating exactly the same stuff every single day.
Yah, and don't do too much cardio. I wish I could go along and just be around 12% fat. Gosh! I have to practically kill myself to get down there. Even if you add a bit of fat while adding muscle, it'll just make your overall look sleeker - fuller muscle bellies sort of thing. Don't worry about that too much.
