What's something you wish you started doing sooner/knew earlier in your fitness journey?

[winniety]

@dawn16 Along the same lines I’m huge on prehabilitation work. For example the myrtle routine to strengthen glutes/hips to prevent injuries. Game changer

 

[kevinmark21]

@dawn16 This is it for me too. My gains are held back when I don't pay enough attention to the quality of my movements. My form suffers so I suffer. Mobility training is helping so much.

 

[cerufrost]

@colwyn I underestimated how important is was to eat healthy and eat more.

I wasted a good year getting tiny gains because I didn't know enough about proper nutrition and bulking.

 

[dawn16]

@cerufrost This me right now. I'm still feel like I'm force feeding myself 2000 calories when I'm used to only 1 meal per day. (not a diet thing, I just don't eat a lot)

 

[dawn16]

@cerufrost this is me right now. I know nothing about nutrition even after doing tons of research on it. Whenever i increase my calories i just seem to be getting fat on my stomach

 

[shadra]

@dawn16 It sounds like you may want to take a look at what your eating in terms of macros and calories and how you exercise to see if they align with your goal.

Excess calories, insufficient strength training = optimal fat gain, some muscle gain

Excess calories, sufficient protein and fats sufficient strength training = optimal gain of muscle , some fat gain

Deficit calories, insufficient strength training = loss of fat and muscle, ie “skinny fat”

Deficit calories, sufficient protein and fats, strength training = loss of fat, optimal retaining of muscle (which is usually what people are looking for when they say they want to look “toned” and need to lose weight)

Add cardio to any of these in order to eat more calories at the same loss/gain rate, or to speed up the rate itself without eating more.

 

[ejmom3811]

@cerufrost I feel like that's where I'm at right now... what resources did you use to learn more about bulking?

 

[adonaiinside]

@ejmom3811 For me, just upping my protein to the right levels really allowed me to add weight to my lifts. It was crazy how quickly I made progress after having stagnated for a bit. I aim for about 1.6 g per kg of body weight and track calories. I don’t really bother much tracking the other macros, but I’m not doing anything like low carb or low fat.