Thread: Need experienced opinions

I would say more so 20-22% in my opinion. Just like most people you’re holding heavily in the lower ab/hip area. Also hard to tell because can’t see legs but just my guess based off of what was given. But if you drank the night before you’re holding water so that can affect the pictures.

As far as trying to cut, I wouldn’t throw carbs out the window but reducing them would be good. Up your protein to at least 1.5g per pound of bodyweight, and up the fats by 10g. Drop the carbs to 100g for starters and that would be a good baseline adjustment so you’re not in poverty calories off rip and have some wiggle room to adjust as you go. Always be mindful to make incremental adjustments, not major ones, or else you’ll have no ‘aces’ up your sleeve when the body needs a change or new manipulation.

Also if you’re not already, gotta start doing cardio. Good baseline would be 4-5x week 20 minute intervals post workout. As I always say, if you want to get cut then you have to fix your fork, add cardio and be consistent. So no heavy drinking for a bit my friend. A little discipline with consistency goes a far way brotha.


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Originally Posted by G_nome76

Ya I don’t drink often but on occasion I throw down. I’m down 45 lbs in the last 5 months so just working on getting really dialed now. Thanks for the advice I’ll adjust my numbers. I just started doing cardio last week so I’ll keep on it even tho it’s the devil. I was 290lbs I’m 245 now and I’m thinking if I can get to 225 ripped it would be a good look.
So if I wanted to get an actual bf % how would one go about doing that ?


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Congrats on your weight loss so far. That’s awesome man. Your hard work is paying off for sure. Your legs are pretty lean but I’d still say your roughly 20% give or take.

Best way to get an actual % of bf is to either do a dexa scan or hydrostatic weighing. Look those up and see if they’re offered in your area. Dexa scan is the gold standard tho so I’d go with that for the best reading if you can get it.

I agree with Fancy agreeing with me lol (just playing).. but on a more serious note I agree with Fancy on the mirror. I think that will be your best scale. By all means track your progress with numbers by watching the scale go down as your trying to cut down and re shape some more. Let’s you know you’re in the right direction. But don’t fall in love with an end number. Just keep grinding and as long as you’re liking what you’re seeing result, keep at it, making necessary adjustments along the way. And then I’m sure the time will come where you’ll want to recomp a bit or just straight up grow more with more lean muscle tissue. So when that time comes, this chapter closes and you’ll start the next chapter of your gains. But until then I hope my two cents was relatively helpful and best of luck brother. Any other questions feel free to ask and I’ll do my best to help


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