Ok, so I am 18 year old college student who is looking to bulk up more in order to fill out my MMA weight. Plus, I will get the benefit of the wonderful beach body. I weight 169 pounds with roughly 15% body fat. I am 5′9″. My goal is to put on 16 more pounds of muscle (be 185), then cut down to a lean 175 with about 9-10% BF.

I am going to take:

-Optimum 100% Whey (Protein)
-BSN Cellmass (Post-workout)
-Gaspri Nutrition Superpump 250 (Pre-workout)
-AST Multi Pro 32X (Multivitamin)
-Universal Animal Stak (Natural Testosterone Booster)
-Optimum BCAA tablets (for, well, BCAA’s)
-Nutrex Lipo 6x (Fat loss)

I also have some Optimum ZMA’s, and Omega 3’s left over from my last stack that I will also be taking.

I will not be taking the Lipo 6x until the cutting stage. I will be taking the Animal Stak during the bulking stage (as it is only 3 weeks). I know I will get lots of heat for the Animal Stak i.e. “you are only 18, you don’t need to use that”, but I just want to see how the product works.

I have a very solid workout program, and I know that diet is 80% of physique and progress.

Tell me what you think. Any advice or thoughts? I am all ears!

Well after a couple years of unhealthy weight loss, i decided i want to decrease my body fat percentage, and tone up. I figure the best way to do this is to get some protein powder, bars, and other things, and hit the weights, as well as do some HIIT. I didnt think that focusing on cardio would help tone me up, nor would it allow me to eat as much i would like to. So my question is how should i get started? what should my workout schedule be, how many cups of protein should i have, and what are the effects of protein, i dont want to gain too much weight, but if it means ill be more tone then i want to. I figure four days of lifting and 3 days of HIIT, 1-2 rest days a week. how long should i work out, and what types of HIIT should i do. Also i want to know what supplements i can take that dont make me gain weight, but help tone. ( ex : creatine is not for me ) Any help would be great, or advice tips, workouts, information is much apprecaited, thanks in advance.
PS: im 16 , 6 ft 1 175lb