Cutting AND bulking...

[pilot0001]

It seems cutting and bulking are treated like black and white on this site. I need to loose about 10 to 15 more lbs, but I also want to firm up my muscles. Should I take a 50/50 approach? Like 15 or 20 minutes of cardio (stair stepper? Tredmill?) and then do my lifting routine?

I'm also watching what I eat and have lost some weight.

 

[MagiKMaK]

Lifting will always give you returns and cardio will always have you lose some weight. When you cardio it's also going to take some of your muscle. So just do both until you're at the weight you want and then lift mostly and then cardio if you ever start going over your own personal ideal weight

 

[enkai]

I was reading from a few books that lifting with heavy loads...90% of ones maximum makes the mitochonndria (cells powerplant) double in size, thus causing the metabolism to shift up which in turn could make you loose more weight, but everyone can find a fine balance and achieve both, not to the maximum, but still can gain muscle and loose bodyfat, a good way to do this is to manipulate EFAs...take one bottle of fish oils for now, then switch to flaxseed oil and so forth...A lot more of this info can be found at charles poliquin site, go search it on google.com.

 

[Sammo]

I'm new to this stuff but i am pretty sure you can't loose weight AND gain muscle at the same time?

To my understanding you need maintenance above calories to lose weight and the other way around to gain muscle.

 

[De La Soul]

Originally posted by Sammo
I'm new to this stuff but i am pretty sure you can't loose weight AND gain muscle at the same time?

To my understanding you need maintenance above calories to lose weight and the other way around to gain muscle.

Whoa! Very wrong.

 

[Templeton]

Originally posted by Sammo
I'm new to this stuff but i am pretty sure you can't loose weight AND gain muscle at the same time?

To my understanding you need maintenance above calories to lose weight and the other way around to gain muscle.

Hard to lose bf and gain muscle at the same time. Not sure how you intended to phrase the second part of your post, not sure you are sure either.

Some of the posts on here are getting pretty inane. Why the hell are you bothered about bulking, cutting or whatever at age 15? Just exercise and enjoy it for Godsakes!

 

[enkai]

The human body is too damn complex to be either black or white meaning either gain or loose...You can loose bodyfat and gain muscle, you just have to find your balance not to overtrain and get in the right nutrients.

 

[Soshyopathe]

Hard to do, but possible. If you NAIL your calorie intake on the button, and excersize right (no cardio) you can gain muscle and lose fat. It's all in the diet.

 

[es_mer8]

I've tried to do it before but it doesn't work. What happens is that one thing gets sacrificed. I used to jog and then lift a couple years back. All that really happened is that I initially hit a plateau on my strength and then once I started jogging more and more, I began to lose strength. I gave up since I wanted to achieve both. IMO, it'd be better to cut up first and then bulk up but I'm not either (yet...) but thats my opinion anyway.