Let's crunch some numbers.......

[Cheetarah]

Originally posted by spatts
The best way to get to 10% is to take your time, eat right, and put on muscle. Muscle burns more cals 24/7, and by carb cycling you can fuel your training while also cutting the fat. In other words, instead of dropping fat to reach 10%, increase your muscle mass to reach 10% (while keeping your fat in check). Make sense? Now you see why AS/AAS is so popular...gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time is HARD work.

Great quote spatts!! I agree!

 

[newgirl-chargeback]

LMAO....no catch.....this time.



lololol

Hmmmm.....just keeping us all guessing huh?

 

[SteelWeaver]

Corn - are you sure? Please tell me this is really true. Or IS there a catch here - i.e. sorry - only beginners, or some such? I ask because I can eat maintenance calories til the cows come home and still not lose a single centimetre of fat. I've also been known to eat hypocalorically and not lose a single mm/cm whatever of fat. And then again, when I first came here, I was eating about 3000 cals or more a day and couldn't for the life of me, gain one tiny gram of anything .....

Nowadays, of course, 50 extra grams of carbs and vooopth - ballooooooon!

It's taking a looooong time to get to know this big bag o' bones & things, and every time I think I've got it, it adapts and I'm back to square one.

I think I'm just going to change my perspective on the bulge around my waist, - you know - caress it as a part of ME - since I don't think it's going to move off for fairer harbours anytime soon.

 

[Nonerz]

.....it seems that most men and women alike struggle to lose that "last" 10 pounds of bodyfat......so calories are cut even more..the 10 pounds is lost but - SUPRISE 7 of of the 10 was from muscle thereby shutting down your ability to burn fat in the future due to drop in your bmr.

that last 10 is a bitch! so what you're saying is it's a vicious cycle...the more you lose, the harder it becomes to lose even more.

 

[The Shadow]

Corn - are you sure? Please tell me this is really true. Or IS there a catch here - i.e. sorry - only beginners, or some such? I ask because I can eat maintenance calories til the cows come home and still not lose a single centimetre of fat. I've also been known to eat hypocalorically and not lose a single mm/cm whatever of fat. And then again, when I first came here, I was eating about 3000 cals or more a day and couldn't for the life of me, gain one tiny gram of anything .....

Nowadays, of course, 50 extra grams of carbs and vooopth - ballooooooon!

It's taking a looooong time to get to know this big bag o' bones & things, and every time I think I've got it, it adapts and I'm back to square one.

I think I'm just going to change my perspective on the bulge around my waist, - you know - caress it as a part of ME - since I don't think it's going to move off for fairer harbours anytime soon.

Steel - what I have posted it the absolute truth and it applies to beginners and vets alike...in fact vets may even get more form this concept since they are more in tune with their bodies in terms of training.







Nonerez - you are correct.

 

[newgirl-chargeback]

Re: Re: Let's crunch some numbers.......

that last 10 is a bitch! so what you're saying is it's a vicious cycle...the more you lose, the harder it becomes to lose even more.

Oh yeah...this I have learned and still knocking my head against the wall! As much as I KNOW it, I am either too stupid or too stubborn to get my 43 year old head to believe it 100%.!

 

[The Shadow]

Re: Re: Re: Let's crunch some numbers.......

Oh yeah...this I have learned and still knocking my head against the wall! As much as I KNOW it, I am either too stupid or too stubborn to get my 43 year old head to believe it 100%.!

...that is a sure sign that lbm was dropped along with some fat

 

[JJFigure]

Unfortunately, if you're a "vet", adding 10 lbs. of lbm is a daunting task. It's much easier to do if you've never touched a weight in your life or are coming back from a long lay off; much harder if you've been lifting consistently and intensely for years.

 

[The Shadow]

Unfortunately, if you're a "vet", adding 10 lbs. of lbm is a daunting task. It's much easier to do if you've never touched a weight in your life or are coming back from a long lay off; much harder if you've been lifting consistently and intensely for years.

...true...BUT being a vet has numerous advantages.....

1 - Knowing what tyes of carbs for example, work for you
2 - Knowing what macro nutrient breakdown is best
3 - Knowing what type of diet is best
4 - Knowing your body well enough to know when "failue" actually is in terms of physicality, not mentality

...10 pounds of lbm even to a natty vet should be reasonable over a 5 month process

 

[newgirl-chargeback]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Let's crunch some numbers.......

...that is a sure sign that lbm was dropped along with some fat

Stop knowing me okay? LOL.. ... I am getting it -- I am getting it.

I think I can...I think I can! I know I can.... I know I can.