[quote]jbc07665 wrote:
unaware…is there a secret hate for the brad-pitt types around here or something?[/quote]
No. Except for the fact that you posted about him in a BODYBUILDING forum. This post would have been more kindly received in the Beginner’s Forum. The people in this forum don’t want to be small, and they quite frankly get frustrated and annoyed at people wanting to look like Brad Pitt in Fight Club because this question has been asked…oh I don’t know 1,372,583.7 times in this forum already.
This forum is about getting big. Hulk sized proportions. Or at least Frank Zane style proportions. That’s why they call it Bodybuilding forum instead of “General Fitness” forum.
So to answer your question, the hate for Pitt is very out in the open here, as a function of all the people asking the same. damn. question. over. and. over. On a Bodybuilding forum. And over and over and over and over.
The answer to your first questions is No. No you would not look good. you’re 5’8 and 160, with fat. You’re not fat, you’re skinny-fat. Cut 30 lbs off that and you’ll look like a concentration camp victim, and be lean. but 20 lbs lighter than even BPIFC (that’s brad pitt in fight club).
If you want proportionate levels of muscularity you’ll need to be about 30 lbs HEAVIER than you are now, and a reasonably lean body fat level before you start your cut. 190 at 15% bf = 175 at under 8.5%.
And you’ll still be small. But at least you’ll be proportionate, I guess, if you work hard on trying to gain muscle in all the parts of your body including the legs and the ones you can’t see in the mirror (those being the glutes, quads/hamstrings, and low/upper back mainly)
Get to work gaining muscle. Easiest way to get rid of your flab while doing it is to NOT EAT SHIT. Don’t drink soda, don’t eat ice cream, or dessert, and don’t binge drink. don’t eat fried food. Eat steak, chicken, turkey, eggs, milk, fruits, veggies, cheese. Don’t eat a lot of pasta.
Don’t make it complicated. If you just work hard in the gym and eat a healthy diet with plenty of meat and veggies, you’ll lose most of the flab. You’ll have to eat a shit load and work a long ass time to get those 30 lbs up though. Get cracking.