Ecto interested in hiring a trainer for cutting

[cg2333]

Ecto interested in hiring a trainer for cutting body fat

Hey guys,

I’m looking into hiring a personal trainer who has experience working with ectomorphs to cut body fat. I’m aiming to go back to school and I’m too far behind on things to do more research on dialing in my diet and cardio for cutting right now. I could work with a trainer who trains clients long distance or I live close enough to St. Louis that I could drive there to meet with someone. I’m an ectomorph and it seems much easier for me to get lean then to gain and hold muscle mass. I recently completed a bulking training cycle in which my diet was extremely clean and I only walked for cardio. Now, my two goals are to cut the body fat I gained while bulking and to modify my workouts to improve my lagging body parts (biceps and triceps). If any of you are personal trainers who are interested in working together or you know of a trainer that you’d like to recommend please let me know.

Thank you,
cg2333

 

[pintoca]

something here does not ring correct bro. How easily did you gaind fat on that bulking cycle?

Ectos need advice on bulking, not on cutting, fat simply melt off them, like if they were coated in teflon... my brother in law eats whatever crosses his path and don't try to eat him first (hot dogs, burgers, meat, pork, you name it)... all sort of breads, pasta, etc. Has never trained or run in his life and has a six pack, you can see the muscle fibers in his shoulders and upper chest. No matter what he eats he won't gain a pound.

Probably you are ecto-meso? Did you gain muscle easily?

 

[cg2333]

I guess I should have been clearer that I gained some fat, but not an extreme amount. Right now I'm slightly above a 33-inch waist and I'm unsure how to cut my body fat back down while holding onto the muscle mass I've gained. I did not gain the muscle easily. I consistently ate anywhere from 4,700 to 3,600 calories per day for almost two years, only did walking for cardio, and I got up to at most around 180 lbs with a small fat gain.

 

[Lifterforlife]

Its all about a caloric deficit with the right macros. In other words, there is a few ways you can go. Probably the first time out it is simplist by just creating a caloric deficit rather than something more fancy like a CKD or TKD, or even carb cycling.

First thing to do is clean up your diet if it is not so. This alone will kick start the progress, as this will for sure be a caloric drop.(crappy refined foods are always calorically dense). After you have done this, you should proceed toward maintenance.(this is the amount of calories that with your current activity level, etc. you remain the same). Now you have a place to start with intelligent calorie reductions. 250 per day is a good number, as this will not shock your body, and workouts should continue on smoothly. Keep your protein high, increase good fats as you decrease carbs.

Stay here for a couple weeks, at about that point, this amount of calories will now become your maintenance amount(dropped fat, thus weight). Make another cut like this.

About 7-8 weeks in, it will be necessary probably to actually raise calories back up 10% or so toward previous maintenance levels. This is because your body will start to "catch on" so to speak to what you are doing, and actually start to slow things down(metabolism, thus thyroid output, etc.) to try to fight back against what it percieves as starvartion mode.

Lots to put in one thread, but this will get you on your way.