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Im 16 years old, 170-175lb and 5'9ft tall mesomorph and I have been training for around 9-10 months, my plan was to start working out before I started going to the gym and trying to lose fat I wanted to get a better physique by summer and after training for this many months I haven't seen a MASSIVE improvement ( in my eyes anyway ) muscle wise but there it was still something, I definitely gotten much stronger and look a lot better than I did back then. I've been having a quite a clean diet and had a few cheat days in a week (mostly tried to eat a bit of junk food at the weekends, but I still always did on Fridays anyway and maybe sometimes something small on the other days xD) so it wasn't a fully clean process and that's what I want to change by limiting the amount of cheat days to just 1 day in a week. As its nearly summer I want to get more leaner. Since summer is almost there,I need help with getting leaner, get abs and try to get my arms to 15/15.5 inches flexed and mine are just 14 when I flex them but when I get a pump they get to around 14.7 inches flexed. I know that it is a big gap and probably not very achievable if I'm trying to get leaner in around a 2-3 months time but ill give it a go. I have done countless hours of research on that stuff and on nutrition on the internet but Its difficult to get started and what training program I should start doing and what meal plan I should have, as im a teenager I don't want to get too crazy with the calories as that will be putting me into a massive calorie deficit and I wont progress and i know that when my goal was to lose more weight I was literally starving myself and I was looking a lot smaller and I want to avoid that (When I was doing that a few months back I weighed around 165ish pounds, and just felt like crap ) and since now when I started eating much more started felling a 100% better I don't want to go back to what I used to do or eat the wrong stuff and gain fat.
I have study leave coming up next week so me and my friends were thinking about getting a gym membership since we wont be able to go to the school gym ( its a really good one for a school one ) and thats when I want to concentrate my training a lot on my nutrition, and of course my exams haha
Any advice for what my meal plan realistically thinking can be, as i go to school and don't have too much time to prepare foods and don't want to break the bank with all the really expensive foods? I don't really want fill out my diet with supplements as I would prefer whole foods as they are less packed with rubbish and are much more natural in powder form etc.
I had myprotein whey in chocolate flavour only used it around 10x in the space of 4 months since I got it and decided to sell it to a friend as I didn't like the taste (I dont know if all whey protein tastes the same but If you have a better tasting and more natural substitute to the one I used it, just post it below as i still want to continue using it. And btw it was mostly the sweetener flavour in the protein that was putting me off so i was thinking about ordering the non-flavoured version and then just mix it with stuff like cocoa power to get it a better taste)
What I have been eating eggs for breakfast quite often almost everyday, and 2-3 whole eggs and sometimes I add one extra egg white, I used to have omelettes but recently switched over to fried. After making them for breakfast I would also have 1 large slice of home made bread with butter and a glass of fruit juice (just whatever is in the fridge, usually tropicana orange juice with bits or tropical) and sometimes 2 teaspoons of peanut butter. On other days I just had something like a 2 white bread slices with peanut butter and strawberry jam or just ham.
For dinner I usually have chicken which is with something like brown rice, some sort of salad, potatoes, sweet potatoes, grilled tuna etc so Its generally healthy. I was thinking about trying to calculating my macros and following them but I think that would be hard to consume as much protein as its recommended and just sort of difficult to consume without having a meal plan and that's what would be helpful for someone to help me with, like a sample of all the meals to have during the day. I also need to create myself a proper training plan but that's not for this thread....
I was going to write this thread literally ages ago but I just never managed to write it....
All helpful replies will be welcome and please don't just be a **** about this thread as I know that there is probably hundreds of threads like this or similar on the internet but as most of you probably know starting out is difficult.
P.S. sorry for the pretty long thread but I wanted it to be quite detailed, also I wrote a similar post to this a while back so you can check it out.
Thanks
Im 16 years old, 170-175lb and 5'9ft tall mesomorph and I have been training for around 9-10 months, my plan was to start working out before I started going to the gym and trying to lose fat I wanted to get a better physique by summer and after training for this many months I haven't seen a MASSIVE improvement ( in my eyes anyway ) muscle wise but there it was still something, I definitely gotten much stronger and look a lot better than I did back then. I've been having a quite a clean diet and had a few cheat days in a week (mostly tried to eat a bit of junk food at the weekends, but I still always did on Fridays anyway and maybe sometimes something small on the other days xD) so it wasn't a fully clean process and that's what I want to change by limiting the amount of cheat days to just 1 day in a week. As its nearly summer I want to get more leaner. Since summer is almost there,I need help with getting leaner, get abs and try to get my arms to 15/15.5 inches flexed and mine are just 14 when I flex them but when I get a pump they get to around 14.7 inches flexed. I know that it is a big gap and probably not very achievable if I'm trying to get leaner in around a 2-3 months time but ill give it a go. I have done countless hours of research on that stuff and on nutrition on the internet but Its difficult to get started and what training program I should start doing and what meal plan I should have, as im a teenager I don't want to get too crazy with the calories as that will be putting me into a massive calorie deficit and I wont progress and i know that when my goal was to lose more weight I was literally starving myself and I was looking a lot smaller and I want to avoid that (When I was doing that a few months back I weighed around 165ish pounds, and just felt like crap ) and since now when I started eating much more started felling a 100% better I don't want to go back to what I used to do or eat the wrong stuff and gain fat.
I have study leave coming up next week so me and my friends were thinking about getting a gym membership since we wont be able to go to the school gym ( its a really good one for a school one ) and thats when I want to concentrate my training a lot on my nutrition, and of course my exams haha
Any advice for what my meal plan realistically thinking can be, as i go to school and don't have too much time to prepare foods and don't want to break the bank with all the really expensive foods? I don't really want fill out my diet with supplements as I would prefer whole foods as they are less packed with rubbish and are much more natural in powder form etc.
I had myprotein whey in chocolate flavour only used it around 10x in the space of 4 months since I got it and decided to sell it to a friend as I didn't like the taste (I dont know if all whey protein tastes the same but If you have a better tasting and more natural substitute to the one I used it, just post it below as i still want to continue using it. And btw it was mostly the sweetener flavour in the protein that was putting me off so i was thinking about ordering the non-flavoured version and then just mix it with stuff like cocoa power to get it a better taste)
What I have been eating eggs for breakfast quite often almost everyday, and 2-3 whole eggs and sometimes I add one extra egg white, I used to have omelettes but recently switched over to fried. After making them for breakfast I would also have 1 large slice of home made bread with butter and a glass of fruit juice (just whatever is in the fridge, usually tropicana orange juice with bits or tropical) and sometimes 2 teaspoons of peanut butter. On other days I just had something like a 2 white bread slices with peanut butter and strawberry jam or just ham.
For dinner I usually have chicken which is with something like brown rice, some sort of salad, potatoes, sweet potatoes, grilled tuna etc so Its generally healthy. I was thinking about trying to calculating my macros and following them but I think that would be hard to consume as much protein as its recommended and just sort of difficult to consume without having a meal plan and that's what would be helpful for someone to help me with, like a sample of all the meals to have during the day. I also need to create myself a proper training plan but that's not for this thread....
I was going to write this thread literally ages ago but I just never managed to write it....
All helpful replies will be welcome and please don't just be a **** about this thread as I know that there is probably hundreds of threads like this or similar on the internet but as most of you probably know starting out is difficult.
P.S. sorry for the pretty long thread but I wanted it to be quite detailed, also I wrote a similar post to this a while back so you can check it out.
Thanks