Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 383, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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toning up questions

scuffymajorca
scuffymajorca
Posts: 20
Joined: 2003/02/25
Australia
2004/04/03, 02:31 AM
i am 6'2 88kg male 24 yrs old. i have been bulking up for a while and have put on a little fat which i would like to lose so i can get ripped. my question is how can i lose fat and not lose any muscle. if i do higher rep workouts my muscles are still breaking down butcoz of a low calorie diet, how will my muscles not get smaller?
asimmer
asimmer
Posts: 8,201
Joined: 2003/01/07
United States
2004/04/03, 08:47 AM
Assuming that your diet is clean, bring your body fat down gradually by decreasing your calories slightly and keep lifting as heavy as you can. You have to give your body a reason to hang on to that hungry muscle.

If your diet still has some processed/refined foods in it, cut those out and add more fibrous vegetables, that will change your caloric intake and your digestion expenditure. You should drop some weight just from cleaning things up.

Once you have decreased your calories slightly (by about 250 calories/les/day) see how much change you see in two week's time. Then increase your cardio a little if you aren't seeing results yet.


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