Year 2: Unintended Maintenance/Slow Recomp

Not so much a success as a work in progress, but I wanted to post since I just hit 2 years on MFP:

Edit: Split the front picture so it fits in the MFP format.

Year 1


Year 2






Due to many circumstances over the past 365 days, I've failed to achieve my original goal of reaching a significantly lower BF %. Many factors were under my control but not all and life is what happens while you make other plans. Taking a longer term view, I have kept my weight the same +/- 5 lbs and been as consistent as possible with lifting heavy. Overall I would say I managed a slow recomp. I'm actually 6 lbs heavier in the latest set of pictures (213 instead of 207 in the middle set) while looking slightly better, and my lifts have gone up by by a modest amount as well.

Squat: 425 -> 415 (dislocated my ankle badly in December, almost back to par now)
Deadlift: 440 -> 460
Bench: 260 -> 285
OHP: 170 -> 175

I was following a high volume program (Sheiko) for a long time but eventually ground to a halt and spun my wheels for a few months before switching to 5/3/1 recently and beginning to make gains. I plan to clean up my diet a bit more while continuing on 5/3/1 and will work to achieve my goal of a lower BF over the next year.