Quote Originally Posted by Starkler View Post
Shit, I don't know if I can eat that many calories. I'll need to figure out a meal plan, but I can never find ones where I can just eat FOOD and not bars or anything like that. Got any good ones?
So does SS help you actually look better and more toned?
You don't really NEED a meal plan I assume you're probably a male 16-24 so you don't really need to follow a strict plan since you're probably still growing. You SHOULD eat real food, bars are loaded with sugar and won't get you as big as lots of beef, chicken, potatoes and other carbs, whole milk among other things. You don't need to force feed yourself you just eat as much food as you want that isn't cake or skittles or something. No SS won't get you 'toned' (gimmicky fitness word) actually you won't even look like you work out if you're not in your underwear, lol. SS and other programs like it are good in that they emphasize compound movements, SS is just too leg heavy for most casual lifters. On the other hand you don't want to just do a bunch of bicep curls, even SS could get you bigger arms than that.

Honestly, working out isn't something that you really need to think about too much, you've just got to put in the work at the gym and make sure you get enough food each day and enough sleep each night and you'll do fine.