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I'm new to the boards but very interested. Mark shows a great deal of intelligence and research in the fields. I'm currently 25 y/o, 5'10'' and 200lbs. The description for the MANS diet says a body building diet but I'm not interested in "bodybuilding" necessarily. I suppose my interest would be more in cutting. Losing the belly fat and becoming overall toned so I suppose my question here is, what would be the best way to lose the gut and establish a base to move on to the overall "bodybuilding"? Any tips or links to already posted topics would be greatly appreciated.

First of all i think you need marks total six pack abs program that would give you the best results.
MANS is as you said more a body building diet.
also it depends on how hardcore you want to do this
what i did is, i followed marks GLAD diet. Thats also a body building diet, but its easier to follow imo
then i made sure i was eating a bit below my caloric needs. and i made sure i did not eat carbs after dinner.
got to warn you though i did lose 20 pounds (since 10 march) 14 of wich was fat but also some muscle

soo my advice is go for TSPA if you want the best of the best and want to commit 120%.
Else check up on GLAD on marks blog and this forum.

Also if you have a very low % of body fat already then i'm not sure my approach will work well (i stopped cutting at 13% because i ended up beeing only 141 pounds i want to add some muscle before i cut somemore)
and tspa is especially wel suited for the last few %

I hope my thoughts might help you a bit.

IronFlag303 wrote:I'm currently 25 y/o, 5'10'' and 200lbs.

If you're male and a typical proportion, despite the lack of your waist measurement I'm going to guess you're between 22% and 35% body fat. There are a lot of free body fat percentage calculators available -- including the one on the front of Mark's page at http://www.musclehack.com/ -- that I'd recommend you try to get an idea where you are.

Plain and simple, if you're male & above 19% body fat, you're too fat, and MANS will help you build muscle while losing fat.

The description for the MANS diet says a body building diet but I'm not interested in "bodybuilding" necessarily.

You have a very, very long way to go before you look like a bodybuilder. Don't worry about getting too big and muscle-ey right now. Until you can deadlift twice your own body weight, squat 1.5 times your body weight, and bench-press your own body weight, you're simply not "strong" yet and there's no chance of you looking bodybuilder-like. Get strong. Then start worrying about putting on the muscle bulk if you want.

I suppose my interest would be more in cutting. Losing the belly fat and becoming overall toned...

First, let's tackle the myth of "tone". There's no such thing as "muscle tone". There's muscle size and body fat percentage. You can look "toned" with small muscles and a very low body fat percentage, or bigger muscles and a little bit higher body fat percentage. The myth of "tone" is just that: a myth. People look toned because their muscles are larger than average, and their body fat is low. Period. Those are the only two variables to worry about when it comes to appearance.

...so I suppose my question here is, what would be the best way to lose the gut and establish a base to move on to the overall "bodybuilding"?

Start lifting heavy and eating well in exactly the fashion prescribed by Mark in Total Anabolism. When your fat loss stalls -- and if you're chubby, it won't, for a while, I lost fifty pounds of fat before I stalled on MANS + THT -- then you can either start reducing your fats during the week and carbs on the weekend while adding in some cardio a few days a week to burn excess calories, or buy Mark's "Total Six-Pack Abs" program to get a step-by-step lifting and diet regimen to shed those last few pounds of fat.

Increasing Carbohydrate Intake:-The first strategy involves increasing your daily carbohydrate intake during the low-carb section. I recommend you do this in 10 gram increments. So for example, next week you’ll eat 40 grams of carbs every day. Keep doing this until you find yourself with an abundance of energy and successful workouts.

Also consider using these extra to carbs to ‘bracket’ your workouts i.e. split them before and after your weight-training sessions.

Remember that with the MuscleHack Anabolic Nutritional Strategy you are encouraged to find your own lowest carb threshold level i.e. the lowest amount of carbs you can take and still feel great and perform well in the gym, if that’s 55 grams a day, so be it.
If you find yourself having to consume over 70 grams of carbohydrate per day, you should consider a switch to the Glycemic Load Anabolic Diet (GLAD).
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