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Anonymous
My current routine is basically the stronglifts beginner's 5x5 every other day, and I get paranoid about the speed of fatloss and hence I run so often. I think my diet's okay. I have 5 small meals a day that eventually add up to anywhere between 1600 and 2200 calories (depending on if it's a lifting day or not), 50% protein, 35% fat, 15% carbs, almost exact to the gram. This already consists of oatmeal, cottage cheese, occasional yogurt, pink salmon, chicken breast, occasional beef steak, nuts, various fruits, spinach, and whatever random food I find in the kitchen that's low in saturated fat and low in simple carbs. I taper my carbs through the day and eat fats mostly at night, eating a huge breakfast in the morning. Simply put, I'm already really playing it by the book.
So do you really think I should just go for muscle gains? Initially I went into this kind of upset at my skinnyfat midsection, eager that it would all look decent and well if I lowered my bodyfat (currently 14%, about). At different angles, I can already see my abs, and that hipbone and V definition is already waiting for me if I kill more bodyfat--I can see it already if I move the fat around slightly.
So you think I should shift my focus to gaining muscle, really /fit/? I mean, I'll do it, but this comes as a surprise to me.
http://heavyweight.typepad.com/images/beforeandafter6-highrez.jpg I kind of imagined myself at this dude's 205 or 191 lb phase and the next phase looks real appealing to me. But I could just be seeing shit I'm making up to cope with my lack of muscle, which is theoretically there since I work out so often and do a martial art biweekly... but ahh I don't know /fit/, I'm just rambling now. You tell me.
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