Thread: New, need some help

Glad to hear you are getting serious! Well, first of all, you say you usually work out 4 days a week. The 'usually" part tells me you kinda go when you fell like it. I'm not giving you a hard time by the way, just being honest. You need to post your diet and your workout routine so it can be critiqued. It is important for you to do that so everyone on the board can give you the proper advice you need. State your age also, because that too is important. At 5'10" 173 pounds 22% bf, you need to tune in on your diet first and foremost. Most physiques are made in the kitchen, through proper nutrition. The other 4 to 5 days in the gym and how properly you train will decide the rest.

Yeah, TNO is right, it is all about the diet. Usaully, I find this true for most people, if they just change they way they eat and shift to a cleaner diet they start to lean out almost automatically. Once they start making proper food choice and everything stabalizes it is much easier for them to set goals and find out which direction they want to go in (ie cutting or bulking).
Congradulations on getting serious!

I would really concentrate on eating good protein foods. Eggs, chicken, Tuna, lean red meats and stick to veggies for carbs. Sweet potato, brown rice, green salads, apples. If you work out hard and stick to a good diet and watch the sugar you eat, you will notice a big difference in several months. Don't go drastic either way in cutting or bulking....