True or False?
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Celorza
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Precisely, though when I was real obese and my stomach bulged out...I had troubles doing good ROM for Crunches, Cable Crunches and Hanging Leg raises...If that is the case, dropping a few pounds might be ideal first.
Still, you can be engaging the core by Doing Proper From Parallel (or below) squats, proper Deadlifts and OHP.
RomeoS
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This is actually my first time ever counting calories & trending gains/losses. My target # was 1620 calories per day. I'm not starving myself just thought I was eating all the right things.
Breakfast: thinly sliced turkey 2oz.
2 scrambled eggs
Snack: Kashi- Granola bar
Ruby Red grapefruit
Carnivore Protein Drink- 2 scoops (70grams
Dinner: Chicken breast soup w/ vegetables (2 bowl servings)
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Breakfast: thinly sliced turkey 2oz.
2 scrambled eggs
Snack: Kashi- Granola bar
Ruby Red grapefruit
Carnivore Protein Drink- 2 scoops (70grams
Dinner: Chicken breast soup w/ vegetables (2 bowl servings)
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Jiigzz
Legend
I usually recommend that you eat enough to cover your BMR, then add a few more calories on top of this depending on how much exercise you do. So if you burn >500 in an exercise session, then just eat a bit more until your at an calorie deficit of about 500kcals or less or slightly more. If you only burn <500 or less then id just cover BMR and maybe a few hundred calories less.
You'll usually (if not always) dip into BMR when trying to drop scale weight, that's why its important to make weight loss a slow, steady process to avoid any damage or adverse results. If your only eating 1000 calories and your BMR is +/-2000 and your exercising on top of this great deficit (burning off say 500kcals) then your body can only use 500kcals for physiological functions. The rest may come from muscle, fat or by shutting down energy consuming functions which are non-essential in survival of the body (more understood in females, or just better documented).
You'll usually (if not always) dip into BMR when trying to drop scale weight, that's why its important to make weight loss a slow, steady process to avoid any damage or adverse results. If your only eating 1000 calories and your BMR is +/-2000 and your exercising on top of this great deficit (burning off say 500kcals) then your body can only use 500kcals for physiological functions. The rest may come from muscle, fat or by shutting down energy consuming functions which are non-essential in survival of the body (more understood in females, or just better documented).
pyrobatt
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RomeoS said:
ABS are a muscle. You should train it regardless. Cutting bodyfat makes them visable not bigger and not shaped better. Training does that. They are an endurance muscle because you use them every day like legs. You can also train them more than once a week because (in my case atleast) they recover very quickly.
saggy321
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Workout your BMR and then aim for 500 cals less than it taking into account the calories you burn from training. Going lower will jeapodise your weight loss and importantly your health. I speak from experience here. I've had to take 4 months off training to recover properly - its no joke.
