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  1. Hi ladies and gentleman, here is my rather lengthy question(s). And I will take the time to apologize as well because I’m certain the questions that I am asking have probably been asked on this site dozens of times and many of you may be tired of hearing them! But anyway… I’ve been going back and forth between trying to remain consistent with lifting and I always get discouraged because I never see results. I’ve narrowed it down to two things that are really holding me back to achieving a more lean and toned frame that I want. The problem is that I’m not sure exactly how to maintain and continue to progress once I’ve gotten the ball rolling. I’ve begun to try and lose weight first off. I was told by various trainers and have read online that you’ll never be able to see any muscle unless you get your body fat % down. So far I’m down from about 247 to 232 (still really embarrassed about how much fat I have to lose!) and in case it’s needed I’m about 6’4. I don’t want to get so rail that muscle may be hard to put on. I was also told that because I am taller, that muscle building may be more difficult (is there any truth to this?). I was fairly consistent when I was lifting ; maybe 4-5 times a week, an hour at a time with cardio mixed in and keeping track of what I was doing. The problem that I encountered there was simply I didn’t know what the hell I was doing! I know that certain exercises will increase muscle mass, but which ones or the best for a beginner like myself to start with? So far I’ve avoided doing heavy lifting (I never really did reach a terribly large amount of weight being lifted before, this may be because my diet wasn’t on track and I was expecting to gain more muscle or I kept myself at a plateau). As of now I’m sticking with a lot more cardio to work off fat and try and lean myself out while trying to take in extra protein (lacto-ovo veg here so I will use whey and soy protein blends). Is that the correct thing to do? My first part of my goal is to begin adding weight training into my routine in October: this gives me another month to safely lose some more weight. I’ve also just become burned out at the gym because I thought I knew what I was doing and (guess what!) clearly have no clue!! I want to say I have the basics down: build yourself up to more weight slowly, record your progress and routine and allow your body to rest. Any tips for a totally clueless but willing to learn wanna be like myself? Thanks for taking the time to read this as well! Dave
  2. Been meaning to try and get involved in a site like this for a while now. Also been trying to push myself to get a little more aggresive in body building but hitting a couple snags on my way there. Anyway.. My name is Dave and I'm from Cleveland Ohio. Been a veg for about 10 years now and been trying to become engaged in body building for about 9 months. I have a lot of questions but I'll save those for the forums on here (which are an awesome resource for information from what I've seen so thanks to everyone on here!). Just wanted to give a quick shout out and say hello!
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