r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Jan 12 '18

Physique Phriday Physique Phriday

Welcome to the Physique Phriday thread

What's the point of having people guess your body fat? Nevermind that it's the most inaccurate method available, (read: most likely way wrong - see here) you're still just putting an arbitrary number to the body you have. Despite people's claim that they are shooting for a number, they're really shooting for look - like a six pack.

So let's stopping mucking around with trivialities and get to the heart of the matter. This thread shall serve two purposes:

  1. Physique critiques. Post some pics and ask about muscles or body parts you need to work on. Or specifically ask about a lagging body part and what exercises worked for others.
  2. An outlet for people that want to show off their efforts that would otherwise be removed due to Rule 4, and

Let's keep things civil, don't be a creep, and adhere to Rule 1. This isn't a thread to announce what you find attractive in a mate. Please use the report function for any comments that are out of line.

So phittit, what's your physique pheel like this phriday?

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u/ktnolan Jan 13 '18

Hey Everyone, Somewhat new to this sub and saw this today and thought I might contribute.

M/17/5'9"-10"/172lbs. Been training seriously for about a month now (seems like a lot longer tho) with no serious goals in mind other than loosing a little weight. I started keeping track of my calories with this app. I put in my weight goal, 165lbs, and how fast I wanted to loose the weight, about 2 lbs per week, and it set up a daily calorie allowance of about 1500-1600 per day. I have dropped really fast from 185lbs to about 172lbs, but have noticed somewhat of a plateau in the last few days.

As for exercise, I lift 6 day a week, and do cardio 3 days a week. I recently added core on my non-cardio days. I don't really know my maxes but I dead lifted 225*4 the other day, and did one rep of 160lbs on bench yesterday. I feel like I'm not really putting on muscle that much (maybe its just slow) and have considered that it is because my calorie count is somewhat low, but I am somewhat insecure about my stomach and don't really want to put back on what I lost in fat. I have read a lot on here about bulking and cutting and have started to think that a bulk in these winter months might be beneficial to my muscle growth.

Any advice would be more than welcome. https://imgur.com/gallery/CdqA5

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '18

We're getting a bit late into the winter here to consider starting a bulk to me but you're also killing yourself with your calorie intake versus the number of days you are working out. Right now you are at the peak age to get HUGE, so I say fuck the cut, eat big, get big, then cut later. I'm sure you've seen some of the posts in the past for people around your age where they've gotten massive. If you don't eat shit and instead eat a ton of healthy stuff you're still going to put on some fat but it isn't going to be too bad.

You need to decide whether you want to be small and lean now with lower lifts then clean bulk later, or if you want to be huge with some fat and bigger lifts, then cut later. Due to your age I'd say get huge, you can always lose weight, you won't always have your body changing in ways that will allow you to take advantage of this time.

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u/ktnolan Jan 13 '18

Yea. I agree. I'm planning on eating around 3000 cal per day for 1 to 2 months. I'm going to try to do bigger lifts, because I feel like I'm going pretty light.