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Ted
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When I was in my late teens and early twentys I was very much into
bodybuilding. Now just about a decade has past of almost no training
or anything and I've become, well, chubby. To make matters worse,
I've lost pretty much all of my major muscle mass. The thing I hate
the most, however, is the extra fat so that is what I want to attack
first: shedding the extra blubber, about 20lbs. of it.
My question is if I am solely concerned, at least initially, about
shedding excess fat, how much real "bodybuilding" training should I
focus on? I was thinking that anything more than a couple of full
body workouts a week might be more than I recover from, given that my
diet will be low in calories. I know one of my goals should be to
preserve what muscle mass I do have, but how much training does it
take to maintain muscle mass, and how much is just unnecessary, or
even counterproductive given the low calorie diet? I'd rather just do
other activities as a means of burning excess calories if a more
comprehensive split program of bodybuilding would just have me
spinning my wheels, as I doubt I could gain any real muscle while
dieting to lose fat anyway.
Thanks for any suggestions.
bodybuilding. Now just about a decade has past of almost no training
or anything and I've become, well, chubby. To make matters worse,
I've lost pretty much all of my major muscle mass. The thing I hate
the most, however, is the extra fat so that is what I want to attack
first: shedding the extra blubber, about 20lbs. of it.
My question is if I am solely concerned, at least initially, about
shedding excess fat, how much real "bodybuilding" training should I
focus on? I was thinking that anything more than a couple of full
body workouts a week might be more than I recover from, given that my
diet will be low in calories. I know one of my goals should be to
preserve what muscle mass I do have, but how much training does it
take to maintain muscle mass, and how much is just unnecessary, or
even counterproductive given the low calorie diet? I'd rather just do
other activities as a means of burning excess calories if a more
comprehensive split program of bodybuilding would just have me
spinning my wheels, as I doubt I could gain any real muscle while
dieting to lose fat anyway.
Thanks for any suggestions.