marcone
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Firstly, I hope this is the right area for this thread..
Last week, I bought a scale that also measures my body fat percentage, along with BMI, etc and I was surprised and disappointed to see the BF% read 25.6%
A bit of history:
I'm 6'1 and I have always been around 180lbs (no idea what my body composition, BF% etc. was before). Around March of this year I had gone down to 175lbs and it was a wake up call to myself that I want to try to put on weight and change overall. I decided to focus on upping my calorie intake, didn't matter what I ate, I just wanted to gain weight (my goal was 200lbs). I also tried minimal dosage of Test E to help me along the way, along with about 3000 calories per day, and trying to intake at least 1g of protein per lb I weigh, and going to the gym 3-4 times a week.
Long story short, within a few months I was around 208lbs (210lbs was my heaviest). In July, for personal reasons, I stopped going to the gym and my caloric intake took a hit as well.. I also PCT'd off the Test E cycle and do not plan on jumping back into this anytime soon. Cardio was not part of my gym routine, but I would get cardio from playing sports.
Current day: back to the BF% which is what made me want to post about it here is, I've been hovering around 200lbs for the last couple of months, and I've just recently started going back to my gym routine 3-4 times a week (added cardio to the routine, along with getting cardio from playing sports). I've been focusing on clean eating (caloric intake still around 3000) thinking that will help more with the BF% / recomp. When I checked the scale today, my BF% is 23.9% which makes me feel positive about being on the right track in that regard, but my weight is now 194lbs, which I'm not so happy about.
So where I'm at now is, I'm looking for advice on clean bulking... in that I'll put on size to get back up to 200-208lbs while dropping BF% to below 20%...I will want to eventually drop it to low/mid teens but I'm more than happy with taking baby steps and hitting my goals one at a time.
Even though I'm still having ~3000 calories per day, both body weight and BF% are dropping. I also just got my order of some supplements from N-V, for a natty stack to help me along the way. I don't know much about macros or how those should be measured based on goals, the only thing I do know is I get about 200g of protein per day.
Any suggestions on how I should go about achieving my goal would be greatly appreciated.
If I'm missing any necessary information please ask and I'll add those details as well.
thanks
Last week, I bought a scale that also measures my body fat percentage, along with BMI, etc and I was surprised and disappointed to see the BF% read 25.6%
A bit of history:
I'm 6'1 and I have always been around 180lbs (no idea what my body composition, BF% etc. was before). Around March of this year I had gone down to 175lbs and it was a wake up call to myself that I want to try to put on weight and change overall. I decided to focus on upping my calorie intake, didn't matter what I ate, I just wanted to gain weight (my goal was 200lbs). I also tried minimal dosage of Test E to help me along the way, along with about 3000 calories per day, and trying to intake at least 1g of protein per lb I weigh, and going to the gym 3-4 times a week.
Long story short, within a few months I was around 208lbs (210lbs was my heaviest). In July, for personal reasons, I stopped going to the gym and my caloric intake took a hit as well.. I also PCT'd off the Test E cycle and do not plan on jumping back into this anytime soon. Cardio was not part of my gym routine, but I would get cardio from playing sports.
Current day: back to the BF% which is what made me want to post about it here is, I've been hovering around 200lbs for the last couple of months, and I've just recently started going back to my gym routine 3-4 times a week (added cardio to the routine, along with getting cardio from playing sports). I've been focusing on clean eating (caloric intake still around 3000) thinking that will help more with the BF% / recomp. When I checked the scale today, my BF% is 23.9% which makes me feel positive about being on the right track in that regard, but my weight is now 194lbs, which I'm not so happy about.
So where I'm at now is, I'm looking for advice on clean bulking... in that I'll put on size to get back up to 200-208lbs while dropping BF% to below 20%...I will want to eventually drop it to low/mid teens but I'm more than happy with taking baby steps and hitting my goals one at a time.
Even though I'm still having ~3000 calories per day, both body weight and BF% are dropping. I also just got my order of some supplements from N-V, for a natty stack to help me along the way. I don't know much about macros or how those should be measured based on goals, the only thing I do know is I get about 200g of protein per day.
Any suggestions on how I should go about achieving my goal would be greatly appreciated.
If I'm missing any necessary information please ask and I'll add those details as well.
thanks