What about the liftingprogram? Can i go for a brosplit for example?
Or is anything good as long as i lift, and keep adding more weight week after week?
I can’t believe this thread is still going. “Maintenance” implies that you won’t gain weight, there is zero chance of gaining fat unless you sit on the couch all day and eat nothing but potato chips. You are not going to add muscle without lifting weights, and you are definitely not going to add muscle on a hard cut.
There are a whole bunch of programs on this site. Pick one that is focused on building muscle (aka hypertrophy) and follow that while keeping you calories at maintenance. Stop asking questions, you already got the answer you needed long ago. Or you could fast and cut a whole bunch of water weight and then get fatter and skinnier than before once you start eating again. Your choice.
You can do whatever you want
pretty much
this stops happening pretty quickly…
I will never, ever participate in one of these threads again. These completely fucking obstinate beginners are not worth my time or any of yours. that was clear about 20 posts in.
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I’m literally just copying and pasting answers already given up thread at this point…
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This thread is the Tnation version of “Who’s on First?”
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I only posted to slam the “fasting cures cancer” idiot.
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I’m sure this is most likely a troll again and even if not this advice will just get ignored but I will offer it anyway.
Join a boxing gym and train with them 3 times a week. Takes all the thinking out of your training. You will be burning cals, doing strength stuff, speed and explosive stuff, conditioning, body weight exercises, all types of the training shit.
Then just don’t eat like a dick.
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So do you think he should bulk or cut?
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And thats why you never see me go into detailed advice giving… ask a few key questions and than let other deal with giving advice. Because I just dont have the patients to deal with it .
It’s GOT to be a seasonal thing I swear @idontbrag123
Will go for maintance/bit below(100-200 kcals), and then I will se if its better.
The liftingprogram I will use is upper/lower.
Why, u ask? Because then i have the possibilty to train each musclegroup 2 times/week, instead of 1/week, which would happen on a brosplit.
The kid is as dense as he is fat.
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If i am fat, then what is Kevin James.
Bro split generally hits each body part once a week, whereas PPL hits 2x for twice the muscular stimulation, and full-body programs like SL5x5 hit each body part 3x/week. Muscles can recover faster from training more than once a week (especially for beginners), so training them only once a week is sub-optimal.
This isn’t just broscience. Here’s a meta-analysis which supports greater frequency for beginners = greater strength gains. Untrained (less than one year) participants had the best response at 3 days per week, and trained at 2 days per week. Here’s another meta-analysis showing 2x/week is better than 1x/week.
Most brosplits also emphasize single body part exercises such as curls or rope pushdowns (accessories) and don’t have enough compound lifts such as squats, deadlifts, and overhead press. Big compound free weight exercises don’t just stimulate muscles, they also stimulate the nervous system, leading to release of growth hormone and Testosterone. (For example, see this study done on acute hormonal response comparing squat vs. leg press.)
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Fatter and less dense.
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