[Zara]

Further to my above question:
I have started 30min cardio 4x a week and reduced my calories to 1900 while keeping the same 35/35/30 breakdown.

[Zara]

I have been weight training for about 3.5 years and have been counting my macros for about 9 months. I have a 6 day training split, I do only 10min of cardio on training days as part of my warm up, I eat 2000 calories a day and my macro split is 35C/35P/30F. I have a fast metabolism and joined the gym in order to put on weight, which I have done successfully as I am now 135lbs from 105lbs when I started training. I have decided I would like to slowly lean out and see what’s underneath in more detail and I’m not sure where to start as I’ve been in a constant building/bulking phase all this time. I don’t want to get competition lean, but maybe cut my body fat by about 10% as the Tanita body scale says it’s about 30%. Should I first play around with my macros and maybe reduce my fat intake or should I leave them as is and just start to slowly reduce my overall calories? Or, should I do both? In regards to cutting calories, how quickly should I do so? 100 calories a month until I’m at the right deficit? I would like to lean out very slowly as I have no goal date in mind and want to stay as full and strong as possible. Thanks in advance.

[Zara]

Hi Nicole. I originally posted this elsewhere before this thread was created, so my apologies! I started weight training about 3 years ago with a goal of becoming ‘fit thick’. I’m 29years old, 5’1, and was only 100lbs with minimal body fat when I joined the gym. I’ve never had a personal trainer, I started just a few days a week while learning as much as possible online. I now have a five day split of shoulders, arms/chest, legs/glutes, back, glutes/hams. I do very little cardio as I’ve never had a problem staying relatively lean. I am embarrassed to admit that I do not have a very good diet, but whenever I’ve tried to eat leaner/healthier I find I lose weight very quickly, and since I stay in somewhat of a bulking stage in order to stay a bit thicker, I don’t find it being detrimental to my goals. I’m now 125lbs, with good muscle mass, and relatively low fat. The problem I’m having is with my glutes, which were one of my main reasons to join the gym, in an attempt to build them up to be fuller and rounder. I feel like they are my lagging body part, although I train them twice a week. I also have problems with symmetry, but don’t know where to start in correcting the problem. My right glute feels like it fires more, and gets more of a pump, and is larger than the left overall. My left glute, although it feels like is is the smaller one, seems to be rounder and perkier, overall a better shape. They both seem to lift equally while performing unilateral movements, yet my right glute will always be sore after glute day, while my left one is not. I’m not sure if this means the right one is sore because it’s not as strong, or because it’s getting all the activation/pump. How do I correct this? Some people have told me to see a muscle activation technique clinic for the left glute, some have said to see a chiropractor or physical therapist as it might be a problem in my hips, like maybe they’re tilted or twisted? Please help! Thank you!

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