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Anonymous
3 miles steady cardio daily with HIIT occasionally sandwiched inbetween vs 10 mile run daily (sustainable), no HIIT

Both options are for fatloss with a weightlifting routine in addition, as well as a ~1900 calorie diet 50% derived from protein, low in carbs.

Which will give me better FATloss results?

Pic related, the fat I'm trying to destroy (all of me, lol).
>> Anonymous
No takers? Come on /fit/, I've been at it for a month and haven't seen any good results in way of those damn love handles, not a single degree less of curving. I'm getting a little crazy now...
>> Anonymous
eh, way overboard on the cardio. You need to build muscle. The muscle you have, the more fat you'll burn. Forget about that low carb shit. Love handles are gonna be the last things that go.
>> Anonymous
>>228029
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when will people learn that if you don't have much muscle it will be harder to lose your flab?
cut down your cardio so you can fit in some time at the gym.
>> Anonymous
>>228029
I'm already doing a 5x5 program every other day. Time is no issue. I'm just throwing more cardio out there as a possibility because I'm already a seasoned runner and 10 miles a day would be no problem for me.
>> Anonymous
I really don't understand this. To lose fat, you have to build muscle. To build muscle, you have to eat a lot. Eating a lot makes you gain fat with the muscle.

So do people just go nuts bulking up and then decide at some point to stop and lose the fat doing cardio and shit?
>> Anonymous
>>228499
Following Venuto, bulking up first isn't really necessary for skinnyfat newbies--beginners like me can still potentially gain muscle while on a high protein diet. I've seen it happen so far.
>> Mark !tsGpSwX8mo
10mile run daily? that's retarded.
>> Anonymous
I don't know why you want to get cut, you have almost no muscle; you'll look terrible lean. Lift heavy four times a week, every other day. Do a different muscle group each time. Cut out all cardio except for HITT two days a week. One or two days off, depending how you feel. Eat every two ~ three hours. Eggs and oatmeal for breakfast. Caesin protein before bed.
>> Anonymous
>>228573
I guess I just kind of bought into the whole less bodyfat = instant abs deal. Moreover, what I really want to do is get rid of the love handles and backfat as soon as possible. But what you're suggesting makes some good sense too...
>> Anonymous
Generally people bulk up first (gaining muscle and fat, and then they switch to a fat loss diet), and then lose the fat later.
>> Anonymous
>>228603

Follow the routine. Eat clean for two or three weeks. If you have to have something sweet once in a while, grab a cliff or kashi bar (something with brown rice syrup, burns slow), some honey or a few squares of dark chocolate. One cheat meal a week, the same day. After your body gets into the routine, you should put on a pound or two of muscle a month while burning at least that.
>> Anonymous
aerobic respiration puts energy where it needs to go better than anaerobic respiration. stretching, yoga, etc. ever notice how people who do nothing but yoga are really lean (not buff, but lean)? i think the total gym is a good balance between anaerobic and aerobic. i prefer to change it up, though. i do total gym, weights, and body-weight workouts.
>> 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.
>> Anonymous
I think you need a tan.
>> Anonymous
>>228654

Again, the best way to burn fat is to put on muscle. Since you don't have any, it's probably a good idea. And up the carbs, geez.