Hi guys and girls,

I bet you've had a similar question before but i'm going to ask it any way.

I've been weight training for 3 years now was 9.5 stone skinny git now i'm 12.5 looking ok apt a little flab round the waist.
Unable to do sit ups due to a sacroiliac joint problem. Need to get rid of the flab so i've started mountain biking once a week we do about 15 miles up and down hill in around 3 hours. I take a pre work out shake glutamine, creatine and a protein along with porrage before i set off. Ive always been reluctant to do the cardio in fear of loosing the 3years worth of muscle i've put on, but now realise my stamina is very bad and need to loose the flab.

Will this burn the fat?
Will i loose muscle?
What can i do to burn the fat and keep the muscle? diet? cardio? etc

Oh i still want to gain another 1.5 stone muscle.

Thanks
Aky

its all about the diet buddy.
to get rid of the "flab" around your waist you will have to cut cals and carbs so your in defecit so your burning the far you have, its a complicated business really, is there no-one in your gym that can do proper nutrition plans ?
(and for reference, you wont loose fat by just doing situps, you have to loose it from everywhere, so your joint problem shouldnt be an issue)

and you obviously cant gain muscle and loose fat at the same time, its impossible, choose which you want to achieve first and go for it

Start: 5Ft 10In - 210Ib - 26% Bodyfat
Current: 168Ib - 12.5% Bodyfat
Goals: 200 - 220 pounds - 5 - 10 % Bodyfat

Thanks jmp04

So what your telling me is you cant loose the fat and gain muscle not even if you up the protein take L-glutamine there is nothing you can do about it.

I know somebody who has mentioned taking ephedrine or clenbutrol is this worth looking into?

To gain muscle you need to be in a calorific surplus, to loose it you need to be deficient in calories, both require large amounts of protein but the two as a result are incompatible.
You can lower bf% by putting on a deal of lean muscle with no fat as obviously more muscle to same amount of fat lowers the %, but you cant do both
Eph and Clen are useful but if you're fairly new to all this then I'd recommend just getting diet sorted first and doing a bit of cardio

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To gain muscle you need to be in a calorific surplus, to loose it you need to be deficient in calories, both require large amounts of protein but the two as a result are incompatible.
You can lower bf% by putting on a deal of lean muscle with no fat as obviously more muscle to same amount of fat lowers the %, but you cant do both
Eph and Clen are useful but if you're fairly new to all this then I'd recommend just getting diet sorted first and doing a bit of cardio

I think he means to gain weight you need a calorific surplus.

You can lose weight and keep muscle - sort your diet out eliminating crap food, up your protein intake and do cardio, maybe 3x1hr sessions to start

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Thanks jmp04

So what your telling me is you cant loose the fat and gain muscle not even if you up the protein take L-glutamine there is nothing you can do about it.

I know somebody who has mentioned taking ephedrine or clenbutrol is this worth looking into?

I wouldn't get disheartened, if you drop the fat and retain the mass you have you will look more impressive and bigger, I looked much more muscular when I was ripped despite being at my lowest bodyweight! Diet, chcuk in the cardio and see where the road takes you!! Good luck

Peace be the Journey!

Who said u cant burn fat and gain muscle, thats rubbish. Maybe naturally u cant but with steroids its not impossible.

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Who said u cant burn fat and gain muscle, thats rubbish. Maybe naturally u cant but with steroids its not impossible.

What's rubbish, good sir, and reckless is the advice above

Peace be the Journey!

Hi thanks for the link,
I've been contemplating taking Clendutrol but was unsure is its going to have any log term side effects. I'm not afraid of hard work and cardio just didn't want to loose the muscle thats taken me 3 years to build and god knows how many protein shakes to go with it.

mate im in same ish type boat but been training longer and weigh 16 stone..
you can lose the fat and keep the muscle just sort diet out and cardio..and like someone said youd probs look bigger when fat gone.
when i was in really good shape and probs looked alot bigger i only weighed 13.6 stone..now im 16 i just look like a chunky fooker..
im going to try and loose stone and a half..maybe even down to 14st..and inways i agree in the mind it feels like were shrinking away but im just going to go for it,,will still train hard and up my protein etc but im going to see what i look like by trying to get rid of atlest 1.7 stone..plus im 42 so probs even more harder for me ;-)
steve

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Who said u cant burn fat and gain muscle, thats rubbish. Maybe naturally u cant but with steroids its not impossible.

What's rubbish, good sir, and reckless is the advice above

true though.