Fitness Guidance Please

May 25, 2007 03:18

I've been keeping a pretty strict workout regiment for the past 6 months. Well minus a 1 month stint where I couldn't workout due to fractured ribs from a botched snowboard trick. Well anyways, I've been working out 4-5 days at least. I've been taking in a lot of calories to bulk up, and I am starting to notice a difference in my build and my strength and endurance. But I haven't done much for cardio. With my increased uptake of calories and protein I think I'm feeding some muscles but not really stripping down the "extra" layer in my mid-section. I mean I'm a thin guy to begin with so I don't have a lot there but I want that ripped factor, I mean killer ripped like Bruce Lee or Brad Pitt in Fight Club.

So now do I diet or do mad cardio? Some experts tell me the only way to get there is to diet and other say that working out and cutting down on calories are the way, but is there a way to maintain bulk AND lose "insulation"? My arms are lean and vascular it's just the lower part of my torso I really want to rip up. Upper ab part seems fine.

Any fitness guru's out there that can offer a word of advice?

On a related note, I have not been working on my lower body partly because I'm lazy to do long lower body workouts, and partly because I hate walking around like I have something stuck in my ass for a week because my legs are in pain. I guess I just have to do it, I think next week is the week I take off from upper body for a week (I hear that's good for allowing muscles to recover and grow) and I'll focus on running, biking, squats, jumps and lunges. Any recommended exercises for really getting big calves? My quads are pretty strong but they could use a bit of bulk which isn't difficult for me, but calves have always been a week point. I feel like Johnny Drama talking about it. My calves are quite long muscles so even when they are at their peak they are never tennis balls unless I flex. Do I need some elective surgery?

Well off to bed, it's too late now.

cardio, lifting, working out

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