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I just recently I really started to get serious about working out and going to the gym, and I have been going on strong now for 2 months now after joining a new gym, unlike before when I would go every once every couple of days or even weeks, I am now going 6 days a week and doing weight training mostly.
I have been keeping a notepad just about a month ago so I can track my progress, and I have seen myself getting stronger from the numbers I'm tracking, and also in size, seeing muscles grow bigger on my body (especially with my pecs, since I didn't have any before, and now I am growing some titties, it's exciting).
Anyway, I used to weigh at my lowest 120 pounds, and then when I started going off and on, I went up to 140 pounds, but maybe that was due to me eating more too, I don't know. Now after working out for a couple of months I am at 165 pounds, and I want to keep gaining more, I don't really have a set target weight, but just so long as I won't be a skinny twig anymore at my height of 5'10" or somewhere around there, I haven't measured lately.
But now I am considering on cutting out my bulking phase and working on cutting, because I have always had a little pot belly, just a little bit, probably from all the visceral fat of my past days of eating piece of shit junk fast food and whatnot, and I have like 2 stretch marks on my belly from probably constantly hunching over a little and not sitting completely straight up, and no one likes a pot belly no matter how small.
So, have any of you had any success doing something like this? It's like a paradox, because if you want to lose fat, you've got to eat less and burn more calories doing cardio and shit, but when you're bulking up and building muscle, you've got to increase your caloric intake and all that jazz (especially when you're a hard gainer ectomorph body type like I am). I'm not sure if it's going to work, but I want to try it out. And I think it would be better anyway to lose my pot belly and stay toned and then try to gain the muscle, instead of trying to bulk first and cutting down later.
Anyway, my current work out sets are like this:
Monday: Chest, Arms, Abs
Tuesday: Legs
Wednesday: Shoulders, Back, Abs
Thursday: Chest, Arms
Friday: Legs, Abs
Saturday: Shoulders, Back
Sunday: Rest
Any ideas on where I could throw in cardio to my routine? I was thinking I could do cardio like 30 minutes every day after my weight training sessions (probably the stationary bike or the stair stepper), and that I might have to cut back on the amount of different exercises I am doing during my weight training, since I usually do 6-8 different exercises per set of muscles I'm training. I usually work out anywhere from 1 hour to 2 and a half hours, depending on how long I rest between sets (but I think probably because I do so many different exercises per muscle set), but I think I will try to set my weight lifting to a maximum of 1 hour and then doing the 30 minutes of cardio. I'll have to fine-tune my eating again too, I guess, but I think the biggest factor will be finding the time and right place for cardio, so I don't lose too much muscle while I am trying to burn the fat or get way too exhausted.
Here's the workout I do for those of you interested, if you have any suggestions on what exercises I should cut out and put in cardio in its place:
Back: Lower Back Machine, High Row Machine, Row/Rear Delt Machine, Lat Pulldown Machine
I do 3 sets of each of these exercises and alternate muscle groups per sets of exercises (like if it's Monday, I'll do a chest exercises, followed by an arms exercises, then chest, then arm, so I don't kill myself before finishing my work out), except on the beginning part of my chest and arms exercises I do 4 sets of the DB Bench Press, DB Curls, DB Flyes, and Wrist Curls, because I want to work on those muscles more than the other ones first, since I am a skinny guy, want to beef up my arms, you know.
No offense but your back workout is pretty weak. I'd suggest much more free weight work. For back, I do sumo style deadlifts, chins, and free weight rows of some sort. Lately, I've been doing one arm rows which are great.
In regards to your question, you have to cycle between fat loss and muscle gain. It is very difficult to do both at once because fat loss is catabolic and muscle gain is anabolic.
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