Hi everyone, My goal is to lower my bf%, and I wanted to ask you guys what you think about doing LITT in the morning before breakfast 5 days a week and weight training 3 days a week.

This would come down to performing cardio in the morning before breakfast and weight lifting in the afternoon 3 times a week.

is this recommandable or just a bit too much ? .

regards, Jeff

Training 3x a week is good. As for the cardio, this can be debated for infinite.

IMHO you should start with no cardio, then build up as and when you need to, or at the very most 1 or 2x week to begin with.

If you start small and work up in x a week, you can use this to your advanatge as you near into your goal.

Just my opinion, of course :)

Hi everyone, My goal is to lower my bf%, and I wanted to ask you guys what you think about doing LITT in the morning before breakfast 5 days a week and weight training 3 days a week.

This would come down to performing cardio in the morning before breakfast and weight lifting in the afternoon 3 times a week.

is this recommandable or just a bit too much ? .

regards, Jeff

This is pretty much what I'm doing at the moment only I'm doing cardio (LISS) 6 times a week rather than 5, plus I play various sports as well. It's manageable provided you are eating enough and eating the right things. Post your diet and stats and we can take a look at it for you.

This is pretty much what I'm doing at the moment only I'm doing cardio (LISS) 6 times a week rather than 5, plus I play various sports as well. It's manageable provided you are eating enough and eating the right things. Post your diet and stats and we can take a look at it for you.

thanks for the replies

diet:

breakfast : oatmeal plain + coffee
snack 1 : apple or nuts or yoghurt or 2 wasa crackers with turkey and honeymustard.
lunch : 2 slices whole wheat bread + 2 eggs, mushrooms, 1 tomato, cucumber or tuna salad ( 1 can of tuna, 2 spoons cottage cheese, 1 tomato and cucumber pieces and some olive oil.)
snack 2 : nuts or apple or yoghurt ( depends on which one i had earlier, never the same thing twice though )
dinner : chicken or fish accompanied with plenty of vegetables.
snack 3: some nuts and a cup of green tea before bed.

1 multivitamin and fish oil tablets too at dinner time. I plan to use whey powder shakes after weight training too.

thats about it, and I drink 2+ liters of water throughout the day and 3 cups of coffee and 2 glasses of low fat milk.


regards, Jeff

thanks for the replies

diet:

breakfast : oatmeal plain + coffee
snack 1 : apple or nuts or yoghurt or 2 wasa crackers with turkey and honeymustard.
lunch : 2 slices whole wheat bread + 2 eggs, mushrooms, 1 tomato, cucumber or tuna salad ( 1 can of tuna, 2 spoons cottage cheese, 1 tomato and cucumber pieces and some olive oil.)
snack 2 : nuts or apple or yoghurt ( depends on which one i had earlier, never the same thing twice though )
dinner : chicken or fish accompanied with plenty of vegetables.
snack 3: some nuts and a cup of green tea before bed.

1 multivitamin and fish oil tablets too at dinner time. I plan to use whey powder shakes after weight training too.

thats about it, and I drink 2+ liters of water throughout the day and 3 cups of coffee and 2 glasses of low fat milk.


regards, Jeff
You need to eat more :) Also when do you train?

A few tips:
Centre your main carb sources around your workout. Pre, have complex, and Post, have simple. Most of the remaining should be Post Post Workout, with some when you wake up to top up your levels after being asleep.

Have protein in every meal. This will help fill you up and it has many other benefits :)

You can't eat enough vegetables :)

In your remaining meals, have healthy fats, fish caps, olive oil, flax oil, natural peanut butter, for example.

Try not to combine carbs and fat, but thats IMO. However, fats and veggies are fine IMO.

Hope this helps :)

You need to eat more :) Also when do you train?

A few tips:
Centre your main carb sources around your workout. Pre, have complex, and Post, have simple. Most of the remaining should be Post Post Workout, with some when you wake up to top up your levels after being asleep.

Have protein in every meal. This will help fill you up and it has many other benefits :)

You can't eat enough vegetables :)

In your remaining meals, have healthy fats, fish caps, olive oil, flax oil, natural peanut butter, for example.

Try not to combine carbs and fat, but thats IMO. However, fats and veggies are fine IMO.

Hope this helps :)

thanks for the reply :tu:

I train 45 to 60 minutes LISS 5 days a week before breakfast 0700-0800, weight training for 1 hour on monday wednesday and friday in the afternoon around 1600-1700

other stats are:

184 cm length
75 kg weight

what do you guys think about weight training in the morning? i've read that its better to do weight training in the afternoon though.

thanks for the reply :tu:

other stats are:

184 cm length
75 kg weight

what do you guys think about weight training in the morning? i've read that its better to do weight training in the afternoon though.

This can also be debated for a while. There are programs that are structured to workout in the afternoon and others whenever you can get into the gym. You can get some ideas from members here, check out John's training info, Max-OT, Westside for Skinny Bastards, Rtestes will also help you set up a full body routine, Waterbury also has a crapload of workout routines. As long as you follow something you should see some results. Experimenting with diifferent routines will help you learn how to develop your own workouts and see what type of routines you favor.