Hi Jean, I've tried the six meal a day thing, after my old trainer Don Lemmon (rip) advised me toward a diet plan that actually increased calories each week. He also was very against cardio, believing in only doing HIIT training for 12 minutes twice per week and an Arthur Jones styled 1 set to failure/ten exercises workout regimen. I found on the type of training/eating plan I got bigger, more muscular, but not cut at all. I really want to get back down to a lean kind of brad pitt ripped fight club body, not too muscular, more sinewy. I looked that about four years ago, but am having trouble losing weight now. Would you say that doing 1-2 hours of cardio per day would help me achieve that faster? Of course I can keep my diet really clean and continue to lift four times per week. Do you increase your cardio greatly in your pre-contest phase? There are so many conflicting arguments. I would really value hearing from someone like you who has the science as well as the training backgro...