hey
I hope somebody can help me here. I started working out almost ten years ago, just for fun at first but later on more serious, a bit too serious. I didn’t know anything about nutrition or training and the only information i could get was from well-known bodybuilding magazines and i was so stupid to follow them. I trained 6 times a week and I consumed more than 400 grams of protein. I went up from a bodyweight of 123 pounds to 183 pounds in 2 years, lots of muscle but unfortunatly lots of fat too. The turning point came when i had a blood check and i turned out that my kidney’s and liver had to work to hard and that if i continued like that i would destroy my own body. They send me to a dietitian and she put me on a very low protein program, so i would lose a lot of fat but unforunatly also a lot of muscle. I’m now at a bodyweight of 142 pounds at 12 % fat (it used to be 30 %). Lately i have been having problems with my bloodpressure, very strange since i watch my diet carefully now (i’m much more smarter now thanks to t-mag)but certain hormones in my body like adrenaline and dopamine are also raised. I have had different tests done on my kidney’s but they didn’t find anything, so they came to the conclusion that it must be the weighttraining. But i don’t want to stop working out! Can anyone give me some advice on this, some tips on how to make a program, what reps to use or so, anything will do. My main goal is hypertrophy. I work out 2 to 4 times a week, between 4 and 9 sets per muscle group, reps vary mostly between 6 and 20. Thank you very much for your help.