Hello all,

I am new to this board as well as to bodybuilding. I am 18 years old, and have played sports for most of my life, mainly basketball and baseball. I trained extremely hard for baseball at least 4-5 times a week before I quit playing 2 years ago.

I've been very inactive for awhile, and have grown tired of it. My weight inflated 25 pounds and lost most of my muscle. I'm 6'2 216lbs. right now which is only because I've been training in the gym in addition to only consuming 1500-1700 calories a day for a month now (I was 224 a month ago).

Obviously I want to lose fat, but gain muscle at the same time. It's hard to find info for my scenario because most info I find is generally geared towards skinny people trying to gain mass, etc. Because of baseball I'm really high on running, and include a half hour of cardio everyday after my 30-40 minutes of weightlifting. Is this a good idea?

I've broken up my workouts into:

1st Day: Chest, Biceps
2nd Day: Triceps, Shoulders, and back
3rd Day: Legs

I do abs everyday...

I am a beginner and am just now finding the appropriate excercises for what I want to accomplish. If you guys have any advice for me that could help me along based on what I've told you it'd be greatly appreciated. Books to read, websites to look on for information, personal advice, etc...

Thanks in advance...