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Assuming you are still lifting and your protein intake is relatively high. You will most like lose almost no muscle, assuming you are not at a very low body fat percentage. You will lose muscle size and strength most likely during the cut because you are going to be losing glycogen stores in...

If you are not lean at all you can honestly make significant progress with a very simple diet. I would just go with get protein intake around 1-1.5g/lb (I would stick with 1g/lb), cut out your overly processed carbs, don't eat fried foods, eat more veggies and then you should be pretty set...

You can get away with consuming more carbs around your workout as most of it will be used to restore those glycogen stores you just burned through. The overall process of burning fat is mostly calories in vs calories out, assuming protein and overall calories remain constant whether you eat fat...

I am always game to run a log or two (planning on running a log on my cut anyways and I do enjoy your products). Leaning out to see some semblance of abs for the first time in my life. The only catch I have is I am currently on deployment and will only truly be able to log starting in March...

Insulin is a bit more of a double edged sword than that. Insulin causes the body to absorb glucose, if it is absorbed into muscle cells you have glycogenesis aka more glycogen stores in the muscles (more energy available for work now). If it gets absorbed into fat cells it will undergo...

Without the availability of carbs you will not have glycogen stores. Average human body can store around 350-500g of glycogen in muscle cells. If you are trying to bulk you should be upping your carbohydrate intake to account for energy requirements due to working out as well as recovering...

Take your maintenance caloric intake increase it by 200 calories per day. So lets say you start at around 2500 then bump it to 2700. Carbs help with muscle glycogen stores. I usually recommend trying to consume carbs around your workouts. Also insulin is a very anabolic hormone (why modern pros...

If you would like any help with a decent program for size and recommendations for how to increase your caloric intake even if you are vegan I am more than willing to help you out feel free to PM me. Trust me there are ways to be vegan and get bigger.

True story on the lack of the old guard. I have stopped doing the fun stuff and just getting back to the basics.

This entirely depends on how your body responds to carbohydrates. Higher carbohydrates does assist in having sufficient glycogen stores for lifting. Assuming you are getting all of your essential fatty acids, you should be fine with low fat diet. The higher carb method will lead to higher fluid...

Yeah been some time joined the military and a bunch of other stuff. How have you been?

So you are doing basically two a days. Eating clean should get you down to a pretty healthy body fat percentage. I would find out your maintenance calories which I am assuming is pretty high and drop it by 200-500 calories to start out. With what you are doing on a day to day basis, your diet...

Over eating is the number one, I think all sane people agree on this. On squats causing a thick core, I have never seen any study confirming this. As for my own experience I have yet to see anyone I know have an outlandish core from squats. Do I know people with this cores that squat yes...

Getting adequate sleep raises GH more than squats. That's why I only sleep for 3 hours a day, no GH gut for me..... :rofl: The amount of GH to have notable growth of the intestines is way above physiological levels.

Call me crazy but 1452cal a day at 195 seems a bit low. How much weight are you trying to lose per month? Whats your training like? I would be concerned that you are going to feel like crap at that low a caloric intake and that would affect training and the ability to maintain the diet.