I’m simply being told what I don’t need to hear. Because there’s not one single thing that is best for everyone (gaining muscle). Tell that to Christian Bale when he was getting ready for the machinist, when his goal was to get as skinny as possible. The look i’m going for is not necessarily muscular and definitely not chubby.
I’m still planning to train like a beast when I begin to maingain. As far as I understood, this forum is not just for people who want to pack on a lot of muscle.
I’ll keep doing my thing and when I ever decide that I want to change direction, i’ll go back to the advice i’ve gotten from here. Maybe i’ll be doing super squats and chugging milk in 5 years, who knows.
I wouldn’t cut I was you, but you shouldn’t care what I would do. Your goals are your goals.
Back to your original question, you’ll be fine walking 20k steps a day. If anyone is that out of shape that walking a lot causes problems they should work on that. I did 33,000 steps yesterday. That’s not unusual for me and it doesn’t impact anything negatively.
Your desire to avoid “putting on muscle really quickly”, can you let me know the secret shortcut to actually gaining this "hella 'mount " of muscle quickly?
Being concerned about half a pound of fat on your face (I don’t know how you’ve come to the calculated conclusion that you’re storing this there) suggests to me there are perhaps other issues at play here.
Good luck in pursuing your goals (but let’s cut back on the Hollywood actors body transformations, the average Joe doesn’t have access to nutritionists and coaches, nor are we being paid millions to subject ourselves to it).
“Hella quick” is relative. 6 months for 6 pounds of pure muscle is “hella quick” to me. I don’t care if it takes me 10 years to get there.
I just look better when i’m leaner, as I was 5 years ago. And I wasn’t at an unhealthy weight.
I’m also an entertainer, and even though i’m far from being paid millions, that wasn’t even my point. My point was that people have different goals and for Christian, at that point it was more important to get skinny than to do “super squats and start bulking.”
Been on this forum for a bit over a year now, I write something mildly provocative and get labeled a troll (twice now, already) by an angry scotsman. You think I just suddenly became a troll?
I mean, you might not even have to ban me, i’m seriously considering if it’s worth it for me to stay here, lol. Literally all it is is me having a physique goal that’s different from what most of you here have, and people are losing their shit.
Angry Scotsman? I don’t really get why you feel the need to bring my nationality into things. You said you’re an entertainer so I guess it’s safe to assume that you don’t work in comedy.
Your posts have more red flags than a Chinese Communist Party shindig
I might not have been keeping up appropriately, but I really don’t get why we care what his goals are. I get it when someone says “I want do X,” and everyone gives advice and he says “that won’t work for me because my body is special.” Here the dude is just saying he has goals that aren’t ours. I don’t see a problem with that. I’m not experienced with going from super skinny to skinnier, so I don’t have any great advice for the goal; I think that’s just that.
In all fairness mate, I don’t think this forum is geared towards those looking to go from skinny to super skinny which is the overall point I was trying to make.
I do agree with you there; that’s not what we’re about at all. I guess it just seemed like we wanted to talk him out of it vs just “we got nothing for you.” That might just be me skimming and not picking it all up though.
I get what you mean, but it seems we’d be flirting with encouraging body dysmorphia if we took that route. This is not someone with a healthy self image, and it takes alot of restraint not to try and convince them out of going down a toxic path. Perhaps we should’ve been encouraging therapy. And this is coming from someone who maintains visible glute striations year round lol.
I can totally cede that point. That probably is the route we should have gone, now that you mention it. I’m not going to go back and reread, but I think he said something about a look for acting. I think I’m a little overly sympathetic to doing what you have to do for employment/ your dream, but I agree with you (and probably what @ChongLordUno was saying) that this just wasn’t a healthy mindset.
i’m leaving.
And this is coming from someone who maintains visible glute striations year round lol.