Before I go on a long bulk, how long would it take me to go from 28% bf to sub 15 (12-14% range)?

codsterlaing95

As the title says ^.

Thanks.

Packerjohn

Need current, height, weight, goal weight, your exercise plan, etc.

TavistockToad

How longs a piece of string?

psuLemon

Roughly 1% per month....

trigden1991

However long you think, plus longer. At 28% you are quite overweight so should not have too much issue getting to >20% however from there downwards it gets significantly harder.

Sued0nim

Depends what you're going to do so all the answers above are correct

I have to wonder why you're already thinking of bulking when you have a way to go to hit low enough BF ...would it not help you more if you focus on cutting and preserving as much lbm as possible ?

ndj1979

Your goals are not in alignment with current reality

Gallowmere1984

It took me about eleven months with no exercise, and a 36% deficit (1450 kcal), to go from roughly 19% to roughly 11%. 185 to 151. YMMV. Pretty good amount of lean loss in there as well, because I got lazy as *kitten*, and ate at such a huge deficit.

sgt1372

3 years ago, it took me 5 months to go from 198 to 158 lbs and from 28% to 15% BF on about 1600-1800 net cal/day with at about 1 hr of cardio a day. It wasn't easy and I worked my butt off to do it.

SideSteel

In addition to the other replies, it's going to depend a great deal on your ability to adhere to your diet.

Diet adherence varies a LOT(!!) from person to person. At best I think you're looking at a rate of weight loss between .5 and 1.5% BW per week (note: change in weight, not change in bodyfat) and that assumes you do everything right AND you are able to stick to it.

RoxieDawn

Are you really willing to sacrifice that much?

omar57

if you do it right a good year, by right i mean trying to keep as much muscle as you can