[quote]Professor X wrote:
kobe4life08 wrote:
im 17 years old and am not by any means “fat” i weigh 195 pounds and am about 6"2 13% body fat. i need help with making goals, cuz it seems i make too many goals and fail. how do i split it up into small goals so my long term goal will be successful? i play basketball.
im starting college in september and have about 5 months of training and i want to make the most of it. i want to get stronger, faster, and jump higher.
The reason you were responded to like that is because you seem to have a very difficult time writing what you are thinking. Don’t forget to enroll in some creative writing classes. Beyond that, running faster and jumping higher may or may not go together with “adding significant muscular body weight”.
At 6’2" you are on the thin side…but so are most basketball players at the college level. To make it simple, you eat according to what you physically want to see in terms of progress. If you want to gain weight, of course you would eat more to do so.
If your plan is to jump higher and run faster ALONE, keeping calories near a level where your body weight stays around the same while working on your “jumping and running faster” is what you would do.
Do you want to gain any muscle mass on your lean frame of 6’2"? Are you already ‘fast’? If not, are your running sprints to get faster? If not, why not?
You make goals that help you get to your end goal. Those that help you get there are “short term” goals. I personally want to weigh a certain weight eventually at a much leaner body fat percentage.
However, to do that, I had to gain the level of muscle mass I desired first. That took several short term goals. the end goal would require dieting down after that weight was gained and the muscle is built to show off what I worked hard for.
No one can make up your goals for you. Obviously you can’t pull your body in two directions and expect it to respond and get the greatest result. You will more than likely not get significantly bigger, stronger, faster and leaner all at the same time at the greatest speed unless you are a rank beginner in the weight room. You have to pick those goals most important immediately to you and work towards them.
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so im thinkin since i want to gain strength and jump higher, its better to first eat alot and train and then at the end go on a fat loss diet to burn the fat?