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Is it possible to bulk up and reduce belly fat at the same time?
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Kudos for learning about the misconception, and adapting your approach.
You're also going to have to tweak your question from "how to reduce belly fat" to "how to reduce ...
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Diet to loose excess fat that includes raising the metabolism in the morning and fasting until lunch (2pm)?
Both your friend and wife are wrong.
Your friend seems to believe that fasted cardio leads to greater fat loss, but it simply doesn’t. Your body might attempt to use more fuel from fat during such a ...
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What's up with my body?
Your question is very general, and will therefore only attract general answers, so this will be that.
Fixing posture
While you don't mention this yourself, C.Lange makes a good point about posture ...
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Why does every calorie tracking app give a different target calorie count for the same goals?
Because they're all based off vaguely defined math formulas which were created by various scientists that used questionable methodologies in an attempt to make a generic consensus on what people need ...
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How to gain muscles and be fit with low testosterone?
You do not have "low testosterone" and even if you did, you would build muscle and overall fitness the same way that everyone else does - through training. 350 ng/dL is within a normal range ...
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How can I out-train this bad diet? If I can't, what modifications can I make to my diet to push more weight?
When simultaneously doing body recomposition (losing fat weight) and trying to push your strength lifts, the highest priorities are carefully balanced overall calorie intake, and a high proportion of ...
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Bulk or cut? (pics)
You are skinny-fat. Stop dieting. Lift heavy, eat more: this will make you strong. What you eat should be high-quality food; skip the soda and sweets. Don't think of it as a "bulk"--just eat as much ...
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Can weight lost be sustained through exercise influenced metabolism changes?
Warning, wall of text incoming. Sorry, but there's a lot to look into. TL;DR at the end.
Let's first take a look at what seems to influence (base) metabolic rate the most. For starters, when we look ...
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Diet chart to gain 10-12kg weight
Let's break it down. Credit:myfitnesspal & reddit
This is bad for a whole host of reasons:
Micronutrients? One serving of salad and veg is not enough. You need to have more variety or get a ...
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Impact of weekly collossal cheat days
First let's look at what your acquaintance actually does to the diet itself.
Suppose that his normal TDEE is 2500 kcal. That means, at his regular activity level given his job and physique, training ...
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Is there something that I'm eating that is causing weight gain?
I have done a lot of legwork for you here, lets take a look at the meals mentioned in myfitnesspal's calorie checker:
I have assumed 2 tbsp of each dried fruit & nuts with lunch. Ignore the goals ...
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Arms Workout per Week
Large muscle groups develop in a more obvious way than the smaller ones. That said, you clearly understand how to build muscle through effective diet and exercise.
Arms can be trained through a number ...
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How can I lose weight? 13yr old
You're in a tough spot right now, but fight through it - this stage will pass.
The key thing is to be healthy - weight in and of itself isn't the key. To promote health, you'll need to control three ...
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Is protein shake diet good?
No this is not healthy or sufficient. At 100kg/220lbs, 196cm/6ft5in, 26 y/o male, your caloric intake is pretty low. At those numbers, I would expect your maintenance level to be ~2600 calories (...
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Intermittent Fasting: When to Workout
Gaining muscle
It's undeniable that after fasting for 16 hours (as an example), your body might not be as physically capable as it was a couple hours after a hearty meal. So it might be a good idea ...
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Cheap Alternatives to Meal Prep
I'm not sure how "on the go" you are, but something I regularly encounter with clients on this front is them overestimating how often they need to eat.
For example, the old "you gotta eat 6 meals a ...
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Don't see much difference in size
Welcome to fitness.se
First of all, hats off to what you've achieved thus far! Sounds like you're on the right path to becoming a more healthy version of yourself.
About you're question. If you're ...
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Do people with slow metabolism tend to gain weight (fat) if they stop exercising?
I don't see how walking on a treadmill in a gym is any different than walking outdoors, with respect to caloric expenditure. Since people who join a gym tend to stop exercising entirely if they stop--...
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Why does the FDA recommend only 50g of protein for an adult male?
The FDA recommendations are a very general guide and refer to the general population, not athletes or anyone doing large amounts of exercise.
The IAAF have recently released some updated nutritional ...
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How much coffee is too much if I'm lifting/dieting
Research is pretty divided. On one end, there are claims that it reduces performance and muscle growth by slowing muscle reaction and displacing calcium:
Regular intake of caffeine reduces your ...
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What are the benefits to eating immediately after exercising?
What your friend is referring to is commonly called the "Golden hour" or the "Golden Window". It is also dependent on the type of exercise that you are doing.
Many studies have shown that for ...
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How to avoid muscle loss when doing prolonged cardio (around 15 days in a row)?
Basically, unless you know more or less exactly how many calories you're gonna burn daily, you will lose some muscle. Obviously, if you have a good estimate of how much you will burn, try to eat over ...
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protein in the rest days
It's not like your protein intake on rest days is actually zero (unless you eat NOTHING on your rest days). I assume you are talking about a supplement source like whey protein.
It is considered a ...
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Do you need a variety of foods in your diet?
You don't necessarily need variety, but your body does require certain nutrients that it might not necessarily get without that variety. Micronutrients such as all of your vitamins and minerals are ...
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Is that really good for the body to eat a lot of small meals instead of three regular meals?
The short answer is, no it's not strictly better, but...
While eating 6 meals over 3 meals is technically not a requirement, it's all about the nutritional value you actually consume. What I mean ...
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What kind of anaerobic exercises should one avoid during lower back pain?
Firstly, imaging, such as x-rays and MRIs, to determine the cause of lower back pain is problematic because asymptomatic people tend to have all kinds of spinal degenerations which don't actually ...
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Why does the FDA recommend only 50g of protein for an adult male?
Like the person in this question, I'm finding that I really have to focus on protein in order to get 160-180g of protein every day.
You will find that many things in the fitness world are about ...
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Reducing calorie intake or doing more cardio exercise, which one is more effective for losing fat?
There's been a lot of research done on this subject, and the conclusion is that trying to lose weight just by working out doesn't, uh, work out. There are three main reasons why this is the case:
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