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New diet for new workout plan Anonymous
Sup, /fit/
I'm a 19 year old male, and I recently started working out seriously for the first time in my life. I go to the gym three times a week, and do mostly body-weight stuff (bands, balance stuff, etc), not a ton of huge weights.
My question for you is: how should I change my diet? I eat pretty healthily, but my diet isn't very regulated. My current goal is obviously to build muscle, and get rid of what little excess fat I have on my body, which is almost entirely accumulated on my stomach and sides (other than that I'm pretty skinny). What should I be eating, /fit/?
>> Anonymous
>>160291
Put down the bands and balance gear and lift real weights. You stated that your goal was to 'build muscle'. With a workout regime like this, you will tone, but muscle size gains will be considerably slower. Make sure that you never lift anything below 70% of your one rep maximum (weight so heavy that you can only lift it one time). A good way to figure this out is if you can only do 12 reps of an exercise before failure, that's right on 70%.
>> Anonymous
>>160291
Lurk moar. There's several of these threads a day that you can go read.

Also you're not going build any muscle with balancing and the stretch bands, or pushups and situps...I hope that's a joke.
>> Anonymous
>>160297
>>160298
OP Here.
When I said 'built muscle' I really did mean more toning than building significant muscle size. I'm much more interested in being lean and toned than with bulking up. I actually did use sizable weights for a few weeks, but I met with a trainer recently who put me on this plan, and it's even more exhausting than what I did before, and I'm sticking to it.
>> Anonymous
>>160298
Absolutely correct. I'm sorry if some 'personal trainer' has told you otherwise, but lifting below 50% of your one rep maximum has been proven to do almost nothing. 50-70% will make you toned, and 70%+ will create the myofibrillar tears that you're looking for to build muscle. With this said, bands cannot target the weight accurately enough and heavy enough.
>> Anonymous
>>160308
roflmfao
Yeah, personal trainer workout regimes are hilarious. They focus on exercises that are purposely difficult to do by yourself, and require tools that you don't have access to if you don't get the trainer so you are forced to stay with them. They also make sure to give little to no results just so you have to stay and pay them longer.
>> Anonymous
Guys, I'm sorry, but doing such and such with rubber bands or lifting a shitty weight won't "tone" anything. The way to build muscular definition is to increase the size of your muscles and then lose bodyfat.

End of thread.
>> Anonymous
>>160375

Although, lifting weights with bands is actually pretty good. Not so much for gaining muscle though, just for getting stronger.
>> Anonymous
>>160309

You're an idiot just for using the word "toned" Please explain what that even means? I make my muscle more dense, so it shows up more, or something.

Do some learning, before you say stupid things.
>> Anonymous
>>160309
>>50-70% will make you toned
Oh God, you ruined your entire statement.