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So you're six pounds (probably a little less) up over 11 weeks? Good work, man. How are your lifts progressing?

See, but that makes me think of preppers like doomsday preppers. So it's almost as if context, and one's own idiosyncratic filters and experiences, color the way they receive communication.

Roger that. And I think "I can do what I can do now" is a great attitude. I need more of that, personally.

My point is that, regardless of age, people are capable of doing some incredible things given training and a caloric surplus. I would have thought that would be clear. While it doesn't specifically address your point of BF% and caloric surplus I think it speaks to your concerns about aging out of the area where…

What does a deload week usually look like? Do you go by percentage? And the back-off set?

I'll leave this here. Look at it as inspiration! I know I do. http://www.goheavy.net/records/viewrecordset.aspx?recordsetguid=3615c5df-025c-4b37-8a99-8394242e6a21

Okay, so we're here about a three weeks in: Eating is much easier.* I picked up some Enzyme 13 and that helped tremendously with a lot of the digestive issues that arise. It is, as the name suggests, 13 different digestive enzymes packed into one gelcap. Kinda pricey. * I feel like I'm increasing my volume too much and I…

This was my initial assumption as well

I'm 30 and it's still shocking.

You'll be shocked with what your body does with the food, assuming you're training hard.

A pound! Yes. That explains why this half pound goal is killing me. I'll bump it up gradually. I have noticed my energy levels seem to be rising to meet the extra food. That makes it even trickier.

Okay, so something similar is happening to me! What's the answer? More food? Deload? Week off?

How'd you get to your number for intake?

Thanks again guys.

I have a tendency to overthink things. Bulking is actually a nice exercise in overcoming anxiety. Or attempting to.

Sucks.

Thanks!

Okay -- I value your advice because you always seem to have the right answer. I thought I was coming in too hot. I'll add the 100 calories back to the surplus and continue evaluating. I guess the way the trend is going I'm on target for three pounds in April, which would be about right.

My goal is to hit a 225 1RM on the bench. Or, realistically, when I get back above 200-205. That's my charted weight with the dotted line as a 14 day average. The arrow is where I cut my surplus by 100. My goal was to just slow it down a little bit. It looked like I was heading closer to a pound, pound and a half a week. I…

@3laine75 Been about three and a half weeks. I'm running a 14 day average on the weight, which is trending upwards but sloooowly flattening out. I actually decreased my surplus by about 100 calories a few days ago because I was looking at a little over a pound a week of gain. A lot of people advocate .5 pounds a week or…

So it's just... nothing? No progress is made in either direction? Edit: That seems unlikely. If the body is in a constant state of tearing down and rebuilding and burning calories and parceling out ingested calories then certainly something occurs, even if we're talking about fractions of ounces.

I was in a similar situation. I opted for a bulk, but could (should?) have flipped to maintenance and kept lifting.

This. I had to make a minor adjustment to my MFP goal - my FitBit was overestimating by 100ish calories. Otherwise, just let the FitBit feed adjustments into MFP when you sync it over the course of the day.

Yeah it's a little biased, especially when he lifts the benefits of being stronger as things like "carry more groceries" and "hold babies". Or maybe just straight up sexist, I don't know. The point is that a strength-based progressive program is for anyone, whether their goals include carrying groceries or being a strong,…

I would say if you're going to start Starting Strength for real then you'd want to ditch the HIIT. That depends on your ability to recover from the workouts. When you say the 20# are too much - is that after three sets of five? An Olympic bar is 45# so you're right on the cusp of being able to do the exercises with an…

The day before yesterday.

Hypertrophy or not, those rollouts are killers. Plus that gives me something to work towards; I got my ab wheel last night and can't execute a standing rollout. Maybe one. Definitely not a set.

This *kitten* right here; some nice grindcore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB9L1mII_KU

If you're aware of an exercise that will allow me to put on fifteen pounds of feathers, I'd appreciate a link. I mean, assuming the feathers are attached to wings and in this scenario I can fly.

This guy gets it: http://www.jcdfitness.com/2009/10/the-former-fat-boy-syndrome/ It's a little intimidating. Just trust the system. You lost almost 100 pounds so you know how this works. If you're gaining weight too fast, you can decrease your surplus. This won't be like a "blink and you missed it and you're 20 pounds…