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Yeahhhhh, I know that's pretty much always the case. I think for now I'll focus more on just leaning out and see where I'm at in a few months and reassess from there.

So I have two goals at the moment, and they might be slightly mutually exclusive. I need to shed fat, but I also need a bit more size in my arms and maybe just a tiny bit in my chest. But honestly I...

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6'5, 225 pounds, ~14-15% body fat. Goal would be 10% body fat. I lift 5-6 days a week for about 50-65 minutes.

My calculations put my maintenance at 3550 calories/day? (used a 1.6...

I do like the Arnold Split, and I've done that a bit in the past. I could probably work on tweaking it, but doing the Arnold approach pushed alot of my workouts into the 60-75 minute range, sometimes...

I enjoy working out 5-6 days a week, I get my workouts done in the 45-60 minute range. I was looking at a new split to increase my frequency a bit, but in the back of my mind I'm worried it might be...

I'm currently trying to recover from the "golfer's elbow" so pretty much any kind of weight lifting is out for the time being (my understanding anyway)

I've been doing a HIIT cardio/body weight...

Hm, I mean I can feel the load on my shoulders occasionally. But it hasn't seemed unsafe or dangerous in any way. I'm a pretty big stickler on things like that and will shut it down if I feel I'm...

I've been doubling up chest/arms as I really want some more growth there (don't we all) I've been doing the following

Chest/Tris
Back/Bis
Legs
Chest
Arms
Shoulders
Rest

Valid point. There's probably a case to be made to replace just the one dumbbell that's struggling on the Bowflex, and keep those as a backup when I need a quicker weight change.

Yeah, main reason I'm trying to look around is I know without a doubt that I'll have to replace the Bowflex again. Where some other options seem really sturdy.

I'll have to investigate around a...

So for the last almost 5 years I have been using the Bowflex Selecttech 1090's. And I have generally loved them.

Recently one dumbbell has started to fall apart a bit and not holding onto the...

Yeah, right on. I'm sticking with the plan for now, as I have finally been losing weight and still feel pretty good about everything else that's going on. It's never as fast as we want, hah.

I have 3 typical layouts I follow

Chest
Legs
Back
HIIT Cardio
Shoulders
Arms
OFF

I've been through many phases in my fitness journey. I started at almost 290 pounds, I lost about 100 pounds down to 185, then over time I slowly bulked up to 220-225. I'm 6'5.

For the past 6...

Well alright, I'll definitely give that a go for a bit and see how it goes. Thanks!

Thank you guys for all your responses. I stopped eating less before because I felt like I was bonking out a bit, and just generally not feeling so hot.

But you think that's primarily from the...

Quick brief history. I used to weigh almost 285 pounds. Over about 2 years I lost 100 pounds to 185. Over the last 26 months or so I've been trying to put on mass. That has generally been a success...

So I'm trying lean out a bit, I've bulked up to 222 or so pounds. 6'5.

I was trying 3400/cals a day. That didn't work. As I've bumped calories up it's all felt better but there's been no weight...

This is something I've struggled with lately, I enjoy my chicken, quinoa, lentils and all the greens and fruits and yadda yadda.

Then you look at say a steak burger from a good restuarant, or a...

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