New to all of this, can I get a little advice?

[PAULKERSEY]

Hey, first time posting here.

I just recently got a job hauling around lumber carts all day and lifting crap because I wanted to get into better shape, so I guess I got a little kick start there, but I'm looking to take it a step further and buying a barbell and a pair of dumbells and starting cardio.

I'm 5' 9'' 5' 9'' 1/2 tops and I weigh about 164 and all I can really say about my body fat is that I can almost see my abs. Naturally I kind of already have alright sized muscles. It seems like they gain mass pretty fast too and I would kind of just like to tone and firm them up. I probally wouldn't want to go past 175 maybe even less, but we''ll see what happens when I get there.

Anyways... I've been reading through some of the guides and was just thinking about bulking and doing cardio since it would just be faster and I dont want to gain alot anyways. One more question, once you get to where you want to be what kind of workout do you have to do to maintain?

Thanks in advanced.

 

[Warboss Alex]

Anyways... I've been reading through some of the guides and was just thinking about bulking and doing cardio since it would just be faster and I dont want to gain alot anyways. One more question, once you get to where you want to be what kind of workout do you have to do to maintain?

Thanks in advanced.

You just cut back on your eating and keep the weights the same every workout. Since you (should be) eating a surplus to gain, you just go back down to around maintainance calories and make sure you don't scare your body into growing anymore by putting more weight on the bar. You can also do maintainance cardio (half as many sessions a week or thereabouts). Depending on how mesomorphic you are and how long you've been training you can even stop training and expect to maintain some mass - personally I can go a couple months without losing size but my work capacity/cns obviously crashes, lol. Worry about getting where you want to be, maintainance is easy.

 

[PAULKERSEY]

Alright, cool. Pretty much all I needed to know. I'll probally start today.:woo: