83: Mailbox Monday - Creating A Calorie Deficit & Should You Workout At Night Or The Morning?
Fit, Healthy And Happy Podcast
Colossus Fitness
4.9 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Mailbox Monday, we answered a ton of questions that we received via Instagram DM & e-mail. Some of the questions include: how much should I lower my calories to put myself in a deficit and should I workout at night or morning for best results?
Down below you will find the timestamps for this podcast:
➢ If I know my maintenance calories and macros, how much should I lower them to put myself in a deficit? (0:30)
➢I work out from home and only 110lbs total, any deadlift variations, and technique that could be used to make it more challenging? (8:05)
➢Should I workout in the morning or at night for better results? (10:10)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What up? Welcome to Mailbox Monday. I'm your host, Josh, here with my co-host. |
| 0:03.6 | KG! In the House! We got questions. We got questions at the wazoo. We got questions on deck. Y'all, y'all popped off, asked some serious questions, so we love you all. Every person lifting, just know you're loved by myself and Kyle. Colossus Fitness here. That's what's up. Well, we are Colossus Fitness, but we're also the fit, healthy, and happy podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | That's it. Weossus Fitness here. That's what's up. Well, we are Coloss's Fitness, |
| 0:21.3 | but we're also the fit, healthy, and happy podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | That's it. |
| 0:23.5 | We go by many names. Yeah. Right? And you're Josh and I'm Kyle. That's correct. That's correct. Okay, first question. This is fun. If I know my maintenance collars and macros, How much should I lower them to put myself in a deficit? |
| 0:37.5 | My maintenance is already |
| 0:38.7 | only around 1700, so I'm worried if I go too low, it won't be sustainable. I love these |
| 0:44.2 | technical questions. As you know, we do online coaching. I've helped hundreds and hundreds and |
| 0:49.7 | hundreds and hundreds of people. Not yet, but I'll get there. I mean, maybe indirectly, but I've coached hundreds of people by now. |
| 0:57.0 | And I know so, so much about calories, maintenance body, |
| 1:01.0 | and the number one thing you need to know is the body is unpredictable. |
| 1:05.0 | It's amazing, you know, especially when I started my coaching journey, |
| 1:10.0 | I thought, oh oh calculators will |
| 1:11.3 | tell you all you need to know but I have people that are like you know |
| 1:14.4 | a hundred pound girls that eat as much as some people I have that are 200 |
| 1:18.1 | pound men you know everyone's different and first and foremost you have to take in |
| 1:22.2 | so many factors but let's assume in this case this person's true maintenance is |
| 1:25.9 | 1600 I believe they said. |
| 1:28.3 | 17-17-100, right? |
| 1:30.3 | Now the question is to know what is a maintenance? |
| 1:33.3 | How do you know your maintenance? |
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