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I don't believe it to be a dietary issue [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img]
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I'm not sure that you look 7% with a shirt on. 7% is rediculously lean. Like your veins would be popping. Also, try other stuff that hits the abs in a compound motion. Like deadlifts / goodmornings.
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do you know what 7% looks like?
I think you're thinking of 5%
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Ok, lets back up and start for base 1. I had no idea you were that skinny. Most people who have defined abs, have an actual body to go with it. Not just dealthy skinny body.
Here is how the body and lifting works: you can do two things. 1) Gain fat, gain muscle 2) Lose fat, and do your best to keep the muscle you have.
Pretty much forget everything you know about "tone". Any lifter worth their salt would slap you for that. You want to know how other guys do it?
1)Eat
2)Lift
3)Eat more
4)Sleep
5)???
6)Profit
My basic advice to you is unless you want to stay skinny and weak eat a shitload, put on some muscle, and then cut down and lose the little ammount of fat you've put on while building that muscle.
If you are in a calorie deficit (which it sounds like with 60 miles of running a week) you WILL NOT GAIN MUSCLE ANYWERE. Unless it is absolute newb gains.
I lift pretty much 4/5 days a week and wrestle for USC twice a week. On lifting days, I'm eating about ~270 g of protein and anywhere from 3000 to 3500 cals. I'm eating when I'm not even hungry and I've still had trouble going from 235 to 250.
I know it sounds like weird advice but if you want to make you abs pop, put on some weight and muscle first then try and cut back.
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I don't believe it to be a dietary issue [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img]
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I'm not sure that you look 7% with a shirt on. 7% is rediculously lean. Like your veins would be popping. Also, try other stuff that hits the abs in a compound motion. Like deadlifts / goodmornings.
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do you know what 7% looks like?
I think you're thinking of 5%
that's where I want to be [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img]
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Ok, lets back up and start for base 1. I had no idea you were that skinny. Most people who have defined abs, have an actual body to go with it. Not just dealthy skinny body.
Here is how the body and lifting works: you can do two things. 1) Gain fat, gain muscle 2) Lose fat, and do your best to keep the muscle you have.
Pretty much forget everything you know about "tone". Any lifter worth their salt would slap you for that. You want to know how other guys do it?
1)Eat
2)Lift
3)Eat more
4)Sleep
5)???
6)Profit
My basic advice to you is unless you want to stay skinny and weak eat a shitload, put on some muscle, and then cut down and lose the little ammount of fat you've put on while building that muscle.
If you are in a calorie deficit (which it sounds like with 60 miles of running a week) you WILL NOT GAIN MUSCLE ANYWERE. Unless it is absolute newb gains.
I lift pretty much 4/5 days a week and wrestle for USC twice a week. On lifting days, I'm eating about ~270 g of protein and anywhere from 3000 to 3500 cals. I'm eating when I'm not even hungry and I've still had trouble going from 235 to 250.
I know it sounds like weird advice but if you want to make you abs pop, put on some weight and muscle first then try and cut back.
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