21/M/181CM @ 110KG (30% BF?)
What should my protein intake be? The BB calc shows a huge amount @ 188G (I am a programmer, sit at my desk all day).
I currently eat around 120g protein most days, up to about 160g on my better days.
My breakfast is normally 3 eggs, and some toast or something. At lunch I have 200-250g chicke breast with 100g potatos, preworkout might have a banana and same post workout... a 50g whey isolate (42g protein) serving some time PWO. Dinner would be 100g chicken breast or 250g depending on how hungry i get (or if i have a coffee, kills my apetite).
i pretty much center all my meals around protein but i have never hit my 'target' according to these calculators.
i am cutting currently at around 1800 rest days and 22-2500 on my workout days (is this enough of a cut?). Goal is to maintain/gain muscle until I can hit 15% BF (likely 90KG?).
I do Fierce 5, main lifts currently Bench 110kg, Squat 130kg, Front Squat 70kg, RDL, 130KG. All 5x3. Been lifting for some time, never consistently/seriously so I admit they're all piss poor. I've been cutting for a month now and went from 115 to 110kg whilst improving on all my lifts... but I don't physically look different? Feel better/healthier, but look the same. The electrical pulse from the scales say that I've basically just lost a lot of muscle (my weights progress a lot slower compared to without dieting but my muscles look the same?)
bottom line is - am I losing muscle whilst getting stronger? Is 120G protein too low? How on earth do you get 200g protein cutting
What should my protein intake be? The BB calc shows a huge amount @ 188G (I am a programmer, sit at my desk all day).
I currently eat around 120g protein most days, up to about 160g on my better days.
My breakfast is normally 3 eggs, and some toast or something. At lunch I have 200-250g chicke breast with 100g potatos, preworkout might have a banana and same post workout... a 50g whey isolate (42g protein) serving some time PWO. Dinner would be 100g chicken breast or 250g depending on how hungry i get (or if i have a coffee, kills my apetite).
i pretty much center all my meals around protein but i have never hit my 'target' according to these calculators.
i am cutting currently at around 1800 rest days and 22-2500 on my workout days (is this enough of a cut?). Goal is to maintain/gain muscle until I can hit 15% BF (likely 90KG?).
I do Fierce 5, main lifts currently Bench 110kg, Squat 130kg, Front Squat 70kg, RDL, 130KG. All 5x3. Been lifting for some time, never consistently/seriously so I admit they're all piss poor. I've been cutting for a month now and went from 115 to 110kg whilst improving on all my lifts... but I don't physically look different? Feel better/healthier, but look the same. The electrical pulse from the scales say that I've basically just lost a lot of muscle (my weights progress a lot slower compared to without dieting but my muscles look the same?)
bottom line is - am I losing muscle whilst getting stronger? Is 120G protein too low? How on earth do you get 200g protein cutting
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