Would love to see success stories with recomp

alondrakayy

Pictures would be awesome but not necessary Let me know what your journey with recomp was!

Spliner1969

Recomp is a long long process. I've been at it for a bit over a year. I eat at or slightly above maintenance calories and work out like a madman 5 days a week for about an hour and a half or more each of those days. I think I've gained a fair amount of muscle but still have those annoying little areas of fat around the edges (mostly love handles and a little bit below the belly button) that refuse to go away. They are obviously smaller and I've now transitioned into maybe a 200-250 calorie a day deficit to start to whittle away at it, but that's not a huge deficit. I just don't want to lose much of the hard earned muscle I've gained over the last year. My original goal weight was 190.

I started at 305 in 2015. When I switched to maintenance calories for recomp in 2016 I took my time, edged up about 100-200 calories a week slowly over the period of about two to three months so I wouldn't start gaining too fast. Hell, by the time I hit what I had calculated my maintenance calories were I was at 178 lbs. I had actually lost more. That was last spring. I stayed pretty even at maintenance or slightly below until November of last year. Then I pushed right up to maintenance and allowed myself to go a bit above it on a daily basis, but I offset that with extra exercise. I do 100% body weight training and cardio (elliptical, fast walking, running, circuit training), so I would increase a rep each week on my body weight/circuit training. Increase plank times/crunch reps/squat reps a little bit at a time, walk and jog just a little farther each week. Since November of last year I've gained a bit back to about 188 or 189, and my body fat last spring at 178 was somewhere around 11%. I'd say I'm sitting about 12-14% now. So I'm slow cutting for the rest of the summer and fall (my goal is 10% body fat, not a specific weight). I'll see where I am in November again and decide if I want to bulk or do another recomp/slow bulk. But my guess is that in January/February of 2018 I'll need to do a full on cut to reach my final goal of 10% body fat. So as you can see it's a very long process.

Honestly bulking/cutting would probably be faster, but I like doing things slowly, and I have back issues and knee issues so I can't lift heavy which limits me.

I'll pass on the pic posting at the moment, maybe later this summer. I never was one to take selfies anyway. I kinda wish I had taken more along the way though.

aubyshortcake

Bumping.. Would also like to see these!

pupntot

Bump!