This is my first post. I’ve been working out off and on since about 6th grade. I graduated college in 6.07 and moved to a new city to start a job on 1.22.08. I’m using the change as a catalyst to get myself back into a fit lifestyle. I’m 5’7" and in college I weighed about 152 at my leanest.
I was doing basically bike sprint intervals, a lot of rock climbing, and some opposition push work to balance the pulling of climbing. Over the Summer I started doing a lot of DB squats, cleans, snatches, and swings, inconsistently though. I got a body fat scale and started weighing myself starting 1.21.08. I was at 167lbs w/ 20.5% body fat. Right now I’m about 166 w/ 18% body fat.
The scale is inconsistent but I am starting to see the cuts of my abs although there is still a good pinch of fat around my belly. So I put on some new muscle, especially on my legs which I hadn’t trained since high school and am starting to lean out. Anyway, my main goals right now are to get to between 10% and 12% body fat and increase my overall work capacity.
On to my questions:
- I haven’t been losing the weight I expected to but I have been losing fat. I think I am eating too much, not that I am complaining. So, I started keeping a diet journal yesterday and was wondering what a good way is to record the calories and fat when cooking with olive oil. I cook chicken and eggs in it, and the eggs soak it up better than the chicken.
But there still is some left in the pan. There’s about 120 cal and 14g fat per TBSP of olive oil. I am using about 3 TBSP per meal and cook with it about twice a day. Thats 640 calories which is a lot if I am trying to lean out. Should I cut back on the olive oil, and maybe use 1 TBSP and some pam spray?
Should I just record 60% of what I put in the pan, which is about what soaks up according to my observations. I’m interested to hear what people think. I’m trying to stay at about 2100 cal/day.
- I’ve been following the physique clinics and read about a hundred articles and decided to pick up some BCAA pills the other day. I’ve been taking 2 in the morning 2 at night and 3 before my workouts and 3 after. Should I take these only before, during, and after workouts, or throughout the day?
There is 900 mg L-Leucine, 630 mg L-Isoleucine, and 270 mg L-Valine per pill and I got 480 pills to get through. After I get through these and the big bottle of fish oil pills my mom got from Costco, I’m going to try out some of the Biotest supplements.
Thanks for reading this and I am looking forward to some input.