Recent content by Cardinal234

I've cut back on veggies because they make me really full and harder to eat the next meal. Plus I figure I get a lot of fiber form oatmeal, bread, pb, fruit, etc.

5'9, 19 years old, 130 lbs.... There's a lot of the same thing simply because I live in a college dorm and its hard to get clean food in the dining hall (not to mention figuring out how many cals you're taking in), so i'm basically limited to what I can heat up in a microwave in my dorm room or...

I still don't understand why you're limiting yourself...one piece of bread with a sandwich?? Also, I wouldn't count the calories from lettuce or whatever...you have to eat a shitload of lettuce to get any substantial calories.

I don't think you're eating enough by far. Why no carbs with breakfast?

I've been lifting for a while, but I just started getting serious about it lately. I'm 18yrs old, 5'9 and 130 lbs, obviously trying to gain mass. I've been trying to design a split that lets me hit the gym 4 times a week and still give each body part enough rest before I work it again...

I've actually been doing this for a while actually. I'm in college and live in a dorm-room, so I don't exactly have access to state-of-the-art kitchen facilities (a microwave and a sink basically.) So my post-post workout meal usually consists of a bowl of oats, a can of tuna and some non-fat...

I usually train earlier in the day, but sometimes I have to train later, around 6:30pm or so. I train until 7:30, then have my PWO shake, then a big meal at 8:30. However, I don't go to bed until like 11-12, and I'm obviously going to get hungry again before then. I typically have cottage...

Sorry, but for someone with your physique I'm surprised that you don't know about low-GI and high-GI carbs. French bread and mashed potatoes have an extremely high glycemic index, meaning they cause a spike in insulin levels and promote fat storage. Whole wheat bread, sweet potatoes, brown...

Actually, even whole wheat bread is about 70 GI. Secondly, the difference between monounsaturated fats and saturated fats has nothing to do with how likely they are to be used for energy...the difference is their effect on cholesterol.

BMR is how much your body needs to function if you didn't move a single inch all day. Just daily activity will add a couple hundred cals to your BMR, plus your workout equals a couple hundred more. So you probably burn about 500 cals over your BMR each day AT LEAST....then you need 500 cals...

I just want to make sure I wouldn't be overtraining. With option 2 I'd basically be pounding my upper body, then doing it again after 3 days rest. Is that enough? I know that overtraining will really hamper growth. (I'd be doing 3 sets of each exercise for upper body, and 4 for lower).

My main goal right now is to simply add mass. I'm trying to decide between a specialized split or a basic upper body/lower body split. They'd look something like this: OPTION 1 Day 1: chest/triceps Day 2: off Day 3 shoulders/legs Day 4: back/biceps Day 5: off Day 6: repeat or OPTION 2 Day...

Alright, so I'm kinda obsessing about overtraining recently, but mostly just because I want to make sure I'm letting my body grow enough and not over-working it. If I do shoulders one day, and then do chest/tris the next day, is that ok, or since chest and shoulders sorta overlap should I...

Alright, I don't want to set off that whole carbs-at-night debate, but I'm just wondering what the best source of carbs are for a meal around 9pm. I have dinner at around 6:30 and a snack before bed at about midnight, but i need another snack/small meal (about 300-350 cals) at about 9. Is it ok...

I'm basically trying to gain mass, and right now I'm on a sorta specialized routine. It's a 3-day split with chest/triceps, back/biceps, and shoulders/legs. I do it on a 2-day on, 1-day off routine. However, I haven't been gaining much size. I don't know if it's my workout or whether i'm just...