Body Recompisitioning...

aljomaiar

Hi guys,

It's been a while now with my plans and exercises to get in shape. I would like to have some friends who already were sucessful or ones who are trying to achieve body recompisition. I am 29 yrs old weighing 116 kg. Right now I am incorporating low carb high protein moderate fat nutritional plan with deficit total daily calorie intake. I would like also to include some motivated pals to help me keep going. Please feel free to add me...

JustSomeEm

Welcome! Have you checked out the Body Building/Weight Gaining forum?

aljomaiar

No. Will do
Thnx

Spliner1969

aljomaiar wrote: »

Hi guys,

It's been a while now with my plans and exercises to get in shape. I would like to have some friends who already were sucessful or ones who are trying to achieve body recompisition. I am 29 yrs old weighing 116 kg. Right now I am incorporating low carb high protein moderate fat nutritional plan with deficit total daily calorie intake. I would like also to include some motivated pals to help me keep going. Please feel free to add me...

You'd have to be more specific as to what you consider success. I've been in recomp for nearly a year now with some exceptions. I've been able to build quite a bit more muscle along the way, and have reached a bunch of my fitness goals. I'm not there yet though, recomp takes a very long time depending on your goals. I have done a slight bulk (to the tune of a couple hundred extra calories a day) over a six month period, and just finished cutting a couple of pounds back, and have now moved back into recomp mode until September when I'll try to cut back a couple more pounds. My goal at this point would be to continue to maintain, if not build, a little more muscle and drop some fat in the process. It would be much faster to just do a more severe cut and drop 10 lbs, but because of the fitness goals I want to reach I need to continue to gain some strength and endurance, both of which is very difficult in a severe deficit.

I started in September of 2016 slowly moving up to maintenance calories until around November of 2016 when I weighed in at 178lbs, about 12 lbs below my original goal. I had very little muscle, and was somewhere around 11% body fat. I moved up to maintenance calories and in January even added a couple hundred calories a day until August of this year. I then dropped back to a 500 calorie a day deficit for about four weeks and managed to lose about 2.3lbs. I'm now moving back up to maintenance for a couple of weeks, and will drop back 500 calories a day again in September and see where I am first of October. If' I am not at my goal, I'll continue to cut throughout October. My 'goal' isn't really a number on the scale these days. It's more of a body fat % mixed with some fitness goals. My fitness goals were to build muscle, and to be able to do a 5k in under 30 minutes, and do 10 consecutive pull ups (not chin ups, I can do those now). I'm down to 32 minutes on the 5k (bad knees, bad back, trust me, 32 minutes is a hell of an accomplishment for me), have built quite a bit of muscle in my abs, arms, and legs, and am still working on the pull ups (which is why I switch back to recomp from time to time to keep the muscles fueled).

It's a process, and it's different for everyone. I'm hoping for a total of 5-8lbs loss by Thanksgiving, at which time I'll switch back into recomp again for the winter, maybe even do a slight bulk until spring. Have not decided yet. What does success mean to you? It's not always a clear-cut picture.