Recomp technique

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  • _benjammin
    _benjammin Posts: 1,224 Member
    Also @_benjammin - I thought maintenance for 150lbsish at our size is 2000-2200 calories daily?

    That maybe so for a sedentary person.
    All I'm saying is I don't do much other than a MADCOW workout 3x a week, measure/weigh all intake, weigh myself everyday and I'm pretty comfortable saying I'm maintaining at 2,800-2,900 cals.

    I'm not sure who you are comparing yourself too. I live on the coast, go to the beach 2x a week this time of year. You are leaner than 99% people I see.
  • Springfield1970
    Springfield1970 Posts: 1,945 Member
    I've done both UD2 (6 cycles) and bulking and cutting.

    UD2 is genius, utterly beautiful and effective. It just makes you feel like dying and everyone around you will be concerned about your health. It's very extreme, and it worried me a bit. In the power workouts, I felt very strong though.

    Over winter I bulked, which was an utter joy tbh. It was good for me mentally to feel that food was a positive thing and I did quite a good job of having a high p ratio(less fat to muscle gains) because I started after a deep cut to 16/17% body fat.

    The cut has been dead slow, on purpose, so I can train for tri season. I'm happy with the results.

    I also read 'Racing Weight' and follow it. At the bottom of my cut last autumn I ran a 21min 5k using Matt's methods. I had been running for 14 months and was 43. I think I used to do a 5k in over 30 minutes when I was high body fat (30%).

    Anyway, after kicking and screaming through the slight fat gain on the bulk, I conclude that it's much easier to live with, in rest season, but I finished it too late and started my tri training too fat to do well this year. Next year I'm going to be finished by Xmas with the foodz and cutting faster to be ready by February for the training.

    Interested in hearing if you tried out the mass gain variant of UD2.0? Obvs less extreme in terms of cals on the depletion days...

    No I just did the normal version. I shudder to think I went down to 1200 on those depletion days. I felt like a sponge that was having the life squeezed out of it. I wouldn't do it again but I learned a lot about my body in that time. My whole composition totally changed, people were really amazed at the sudden muscle definition that the cutting revealed, but I made great strength and muscle gains too. It really made me believe in very short term muscle gains. Even now I let myself go over calories after weight training, if I'm hungry. I naturally cut a little too on cardio days, so am still recomping in a way.
  • jimmmer
    jimmmer Posts: 3,515 Member
    No I just did the normal version. I shudder to think I went down to 1200 on those depletion days. I felt like a sponge that was having the life squeezed out of it. I wouldn't do it again but I learned a lot about my body in that time. My whole composition totally changed, people were really amazed at the sudden muscle definition that the cutting revealed, but I made great strength and muscle gains too. It really made me believe in very short term muscle gains. Even now I let myself go over calories after weight training, if I'm hungry. I naturally cut a little too on cardio days, so am still recomping in a way.

    Thanks for the insights!

    Did you stick with his machine-based recommendations, or did you sub in barbell work for the depletion workouts? I'd be more interested in it if I could do it with barbells only and continue to gain strength. He's a bit of a fan of machine work though...
  • jrodri0105
    jrodri0105 Posts: 91 Member
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