Ambitious fitness noob, PLZ help

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Alright so I have not even yet started training but I have got a gym membership and have the ambition to start. I have read these forums quite actively for the alst couple of days. I would appreciate any advise anyone has to offer me about my schedual I deloped.

Here is the basic schedual I have came up with, you will notice it is not complete so that is what I was hoping I could get some advice on.

I will workout weekdays and take weekends off, going to the gym and lifting weights on mondays, wed., and fridays. I plan to do some HIIT workouts on all weekdays first thing in the morning. I want to also starting eating healthier and drinking more water to go along with my excercise. My goal is to slim down my body fat and build more muscle.

To my understaning HIIT is a cardio workout and has better results than most other cardio programs. Is there any other cardio activities I can do rather than just the HIIT program or will that be enough? Also should I perform my cardio activities before or after my weight training? I thought before so I could get some carbs in after the workout right away. I will be going during the morning definitly for my weight training but I can either go running or swimming for my HIIT. Which is better?

As for my weight schedual, I thought to start off 3 days a week would be plenty. I have read so many different programs that I am a bit confused on what the best way is to plan my schedual. I know I want to work out those days but on what days should I work on what muscles? Anyone with advise to this area, I must thank you because this is where I am mosted confused.

Now last but not least, my diet. I do plan to cut the soda's and Chocolate milk :p. How do your diets work? Do you eat an even amount of carbs to fat and protein each meal? And how many meals a day, I have heard of 3 meals and 5 meals a day. I am not sure how much protein and carbs I need to bulk up a bit but still cutting calories.

I am definitly a NOOB to this amount of excercise and training, but I know that I will find answers and help here. As soon as I get some help here I will post my before shots and keep you all updated on how your own advise works out for me!
 
Do HIIT after your train.

Go over to t-nation.com and search for chad waterburys big boy basics and the T-dawg diet.
 
Whats your main goal? Do you want to bulk up, or reduce your body fat? You should focus on one or the other since its rather difficult to do both simultaneously. One requires a hypocaloric diet and the other requires a hypercaloric diet.
 
I think the logical choice is too loose some weight first and drop my body fat percentage. I need to get into a habbit of eating correctly and drinking alot more water. I remember days where I would not even have one sip of water and survive soley on soda's and juices.

If I am going to concentrate on loosing weight first and lowering my body fat percentage, should I still plan to lift some free weights on the three days I stated?

Thanks for the posts!
 
Its actually easier to bulk first and then cut. You should clean bulk (all healthy food) until you gain 20 pounds. Most of this will be muscle. Muscle burns more calories to sustain itself then fat. Then you should cut back. This way it will be alot more easier to cut.

During Cutting you must keep lifting weights to keep the muscle you achieved from the bulking.

To bulk add a extra 500 calories to your maintence. You can find a calculator online. This isn't a exact science, so you should adjust your calories to where you need it (if 500 isn't making you gain weight add a extra 100). With this you should be able to add lean muscle with minimal fat gain (although you will get a little fat, which will quickly go away when you start cutting).
 
jmanjman47 said:
Its actually easier to bulk first and then cut. You should clean bulk (all healthy food) until you gain 20 pounds. Most of this will be muscle. Muscle burns more calories to sustain itself then fat. Then you should cut back. This way it will be alot more easier to cut.
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i think this depends completely on how the person wants to look. If bulking is an afterthought, then cutting should be first. In college I bulked back when my BF% was around 23%...and i looked horrible. i just looked like a strong stay-puffed marshmallow man.

So if your main goal is to lose some body fat, then make that your main goal. dont bulk up "cause someday youll want to."

Yes you should still lift during your cutting stage, to help prevent from muscle loss. Just eat clean and eat about 500 calories below your maintenance level.
 
exactly, if you're a little over weight, you could bulk first then cut.
but if you're past 20%, bulking is just going to make you look chunkier until you lean out.
 
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