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;-) let us know how it goes the next few weeks eating 2400. How much do you plan to eat when you start to cut? Happy party weekend, enjoy! :-)0
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Haha.0
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;-) let us know how it goes the next few weeks eating 2400. How much do you plan to eat when you start to cut? Happy party weekend, enjoy! :-)
I think 10-15%
I'm going to take your advice and make some new goals. For this next week I will try to match my bench press. Want to hit 150 for squats. I may add 5-10 on my deads (but may cut out 1 set).
Next up will be 4 weeks of endurance lifting, then 4 weeks of hypertrophy. I'm sure once strength comes around again I will be raring to go. But, I may hold myself back some and not PR every week so I don't get burnt out.
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^ sounds smart
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Well, I finished "true strength"!
I ended up doing 2 workouts this week, which is a compromise between not working out and going full steam.
My bench pr: 105 (failed 110 miserably)
Squat: 150
Deadlift: 215
Moving back into surge (endurance) monday.
Starting my cut (at 2070) sunday or monday.
I'm very excited. I'm not sure what to expect. I know it will be slow but I hope that losing 4 pounds of fat between now and vacation (in may) will be far more noticable now than previous times of losing 4 pounds of water/muscle. One can hope, again i don't know what to expect!0 -
Good luck. Take pics!!0
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Yay! Super exciting! Think I'm gonna stick the reset out for another week or so and then get into my cut around 2100ish. I'll be keeping tabs on your success - let you go first so I know how things will pan out for me
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Well, I finished "true strength"!
I ended up doing 2 workouts this week, which is a compromise between not working out and going full steam.
My bench pr: 105 (failed 110 miserably)
Squat: 150
Deadlift: 215
Moving back into surge (endurance) monday.
Starting my cut (at 2070) sunday or monday.
I'm very excited. I'm not sure what to expect. I know it will be slow but I hope that losing 4 pounds of fat between now and vacation (in may) will be far more noticable now than previous times of losing 4 pounds of water/muscle. One can hope, again i don't know what to expect!
I'll bet it'll be shocking the difference.
4 lbs of fat, especially if you lose it first in noticeable place, can be, well, noticeable.
I'd get a picture in some clothes you had worn in prior picture at that weight 4 lbs down, and do it now and 4 lbs down - just to compare.0 -
Good luck on your cut!!!!0
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Day 1 was successful! Hope to see results!0
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please keep us updated!! 1
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Reset: gained 17 pounds and 8 1/4 inches
gained over 1 month getting to tdee & a 2 month reset
Cut 1:
Week 1: coming soon0 -
DAy 2 of cut. Yesterday was a rest day and this morning was "surge" (endurance weight lifting. So high reps, lower weight, less rest) and I am much hungrier today!!!!! Gonna take some will power to avoid snacking. Yesterday I withstood not hunger but the emotional/hormonal urge to stuff my face lol.
One day at a time.0 -
Hey Ladies! New to the group, so soaking up all the info to get started. Where is this TDEE calculator that I keep reading about?0
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Hey Ladies! New to the group, so soaking up all the info to get started. Where is this TDEE calculator that I keep reading about?
On my profile page - Just TDEE Please spreadsheet.
More specific than the TDEE table from 1919 study that doesn't include daily activity only exercise.
You could end up being truly average and right in the middle of the 5 rough ranges to select from - but odds are you won't.
It's a rough starting point though if you understand it's limitations and how to tweak it for actual usage.
Or use the spreadsheet and track your stats too.0 -
DAy 2 of cut. Yesterday was a rest day and this morning was "surge" (endurance weight lifting. So high reps, lower weight, less rest) and I am much hungrier today!!!!! Gonna take some will power to avoid snacking. Yesterday I withstood not hunger but the emotional/hormonal urge to stuff my face lol.
One day at a time.
So that is going to be a higher calorie burn - so average TDEE will be higher than what you found with a different workout.
That type of workout can be close to jogging 4.6 mph flat.
Prior type more strength training is like walking 3.3 mph for calorie burn.
Now if workouts are only 30 min 3 x weekly - no big deal.
If split routine with 6 x 45 min - big deal.
So could be very good reason to be more hungry, your average TDEE would have gone up by some amount, so bigger deficit should have you hungry.0 -
DAy 2 of cut. Yesterday was a rest day and this morning was "surge" (endurance weight lifting. So high reps, lower weight, less rest) and I am much hungrier today!!!!! Gonna take some will power to avoid snacking. Yesterday I withstood not hunger but the emotional/hormonal urge to stuff my face lol.
One day at a time.
So that is going to be a higher calorie burn - so average TDEE will be higher than what you found with a different workout.
That type of workout can be close to jogging 4.6 mph flat.
Prior type more strength training is like walking 3.3 mph for calorie burn.
Now if workouts are only 30 min 3 x weekly - no big deal.
If split routine with 6 x 45 min - big deal.
So could be very good reason to be more hungry, your average TDEE would have gone up by some amount, so bigger deficit should have you hungry.
I move from endurance to hypertrophy to strength and back to endurance again. I've done them all during my reset. So I should be ok? Didn't notice a huge difference during the reset. Thinking maybe i am just used to eating my tdee?0 -
Literal TDEE would have changed (probably) during those different workouts. Unless things balanced out because of shifting sets/reps/exercise done.
Like the endurance phase say had you doing same rep volume but with less sets and exercises to create endurance.
And strength with longer rests and less volume should have burned least, though it could have most repair.0 -
Reset: gained 17 pounds and 8 1/4 inches gained over 1 month getting to tdee & a 2 month reset
Cut 1:
Week 1: -2.2 pounds
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Congratulations! Its all about being patient!0
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Great start :-)0
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Well, it's all downhill from here! I mean, down weight.....0
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Wow, as Heybales reminded me, don't got too drastically! You don't want to slow down that metabolism again0
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justsayinisall wrote: »Wow, as Heybales reminded me, don't got too drastically! You don't want to slow down that metabolism again
I think I am okay. I'm at a 15% cut and expect my losses to slow after the first week. I think it was mostly water.
I plan on having a tdee day or two after 4 weeks. And after 8 weeks of cutting i will go back to tdee for about 4 weeks. I plan on alternating 8 week cuts during my endurance/hypertrophy lifting phases with 4 weeks at maintenance/strength phase.
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Congratulations ! I bet that's such a relief to see pounds now dropping. I shall be following your thread with great interest :-)0
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Reset: gained 17 pounds and 8 1/4 inches gained over 1 month getting to tdee & a 2 month reset
Cut 1:
Week 1: -2.2 pounds
Week 2: +0.4
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