JV,
Regarding your last post and in defense of HeavyDude, I wrote this as the 1st line on my second post in this thread: "Eating: Yeah, I made dramatic gains and gained some fat when eating big. Then I tried to cut and cut too fast and lost some muscle."
In any case, he is right, it is a dilema for me, I hate to gain any fat because it is hard for me to cut it off and still maintain mass. I feel like I just go back & forth between puffy and skinny. His question (and mine) in regards to that still stands. However, maybe eating more clean when eating for size will help, ok, now I'm just getting ahead of myself, I'll get to that in a minute...
JV, great post regarding the fiber types question, thx! That is pretty much the answer I was expecting. And I do understand what you are saying about lifting light will actually end up developing more type I fibers, making it harder to grow rather than how lifting heavy will eventually lead to having a higher % of type II fibers. I was just testing the waters there, bouncing a theory off of everyone. I have not changed my routine away from lifting heavy (relatively speaking of course).
Good questions HeavyDude, a 400lb squat and liegelord was still skinny, I doubt that, 400lbs is an incredible amount of weight, it hurts my shoulders and back just to imagine hoisting that amount of weight up there, let alone completing a squat with it! And to lift that much and still be "skinny”, sorry, but I can’t believe that.
Yeah! What HeavyDude said, I gain to much fat while bulking (my opinion, apparently some people around here don’t mind gaining an extra 10lbs of fat or so, I do). I also lose too much muscle while cutting. Obviously the easy thing to point at here is diet. But I do count calories, watch fat intake (keeping SF to almost none) etc. I think I eat clean, a lot cleaner than anyone I know. But who knows, maybe eating clean doesn’t matter…some people say calories in vs. calories out is all that matters and what you do to make up those calories is in large part irrelevant. What was the example: you could eat nothing but Oreos and as long as the amount you ate totaled less calories than your maintenance levels you’d still lose weight. Not that I’d suggest a diet like that but it helps illustrate the question:
1) Which is it…really: Is it simply calories in vs. calories out or is eating clean as important as some say it is?
Oh, FAZ, no, that was not my HST routine, it is the routine I am following now, while still sticking to as many HST principles as possible, RBE, progressive loading, etc...Which seems to be giving me better result.
Brak
Regarding your last post and in defense of HeavyDude, I wrote this as the 1st line on my second post in this thread: "Eating: Yeah, I made dramatic gains and gained some fat when eating big. Then I tried to cut and cut too fast and lost some muscle."
In any case, he is right, it is a dilema for me, I hate to gain any fat because it is hard for me to cut it off and still maintain mass. I feel like I just go back & forth between puffy and skinny. His question (and mine) in regards to that still stands. However, maybe eating more clean when eating for size will help, ok, now I'm just getting ahead of myself, I'll get to that in a minute...
JV, great post regarding the fiber types question, thx! That is pretty much the answer I was expecting. And I do understand what you are saying about lifting light will actually end up developing more type I fibers, making it harder to grow rather than how lifting heavy will eventually lead to having a higher % of type II fibers. I was just testing the waters there, bouncing a theory off of everyone. I have not changed my routine away from lifting heavy (relatively speaking of course).
Good questions HeavyDude, a 400lb squat and liegelord was still skinny, I doubt that, 400lbs is an incredible amount of weight, it hurts my shoulders and back just to imagine hoisting that amount of weight up there, let alone completing a squat with it! And to lift that much and still be "skinny”, sorry, but I can’t believe that.
Yeah! What HeavyDude said, I gain to much fat while bulking (my opinion, apparently some people around here don’t mind gaining an extra 10lbs of fat or so, I do). I also lose too much muscle while cutting. Obviously the easy thing to point at here is diet. But I do count calories, watch fat intake (keeping SF to almost none) etc. I think I eat clean, a lot cleaner than anyone I know. But who knows, maybe eating clean doesn’t matter…some people say calories in vs. calories out is all that matters and what you do to make up those calories is in large part irrelevant. What was the example: you could eat nothing but Oreos and as long as the amount you ate totaled less calories than your maintenance levels you’d still lose weight. Not that I’d suggest a diet like that but it helps illustrate the question:
1) Which is it…really: Is it simply calories in vs. calories out or is eating clean as important as some say it is?
Oh, FAZ, no, that was not my HST routine, it is the routine I am following now, while still sticking to as many HST principles as possible, RBE, progressive loading, etc...Which seems to be giving me better result.
Brak