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what's the best way to recomp?

pilarslayer Posts: 234 Member

February 2018 edited November 2024 in Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building

I am still above 20% body fat and have been working on building strength while loosing weight but do you guys have any suggestions?

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  heybales Posts: 18,842 Member

  February 2018

  Read all about it!
  
  http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10177803/recomposition-maintaining-weight-while-losing-fat
  

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  Shugahhfatt Posts: 73 Member

  February 2018

  keep building strength lift heavy with lower reps and keep losing Do an actual recomp when you are much closer to your lean body..thats what I did!

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  trigden1991 Posts: 4,658 Member

  February 2018

  As a male at 20% I would eat in a caloric deficit to get leaner before deciding to “recomp”. It’ll be far more effective when you’re a moderate bodyfat

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  Davidsdottir Posts: 1,285 Member

  February 2018

  trigden1991 wrote: »

  As a male at 20% I would eat in a caloric deficit to get leaner before deciding to “recomp”. It’ll be far more effective when you’re a moderate bodyfat

  
  Agree with this.

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