jdog022 Member

Two a days at 6-1? 29 yo male. Yea 3500 is absolutely realistic.

A month of a healthy diet? Or a month in a calorie deficit? Those aren’t exactly the same thing. A month in a proper calorie deficit would have an impact but noticeable to the naked eye maybe.. 3 months and yes absolutely

How did you calculate this? Your TDEE will drop when you weigh less. Did you calc off your goal weight or current weight? 3500 may or may not be high. Maybe your 6 foot 5. You didn’t give us much info

I have young children what the heck is this boredom you speak of

Lost worlds largest ball of tape following IIFYMs, eating plenty of carbs ( yeah that’s a shot at keto :smile: ) and being in a calorie deficit. I’ve since intentionally gained An automobile tire bulking and cutting

But you wouldn’t bulk up to compete. I assume he means run one more bulk/cut cycle? You could cut now and compete soon if you wanted to. Unless you skip leg days ? But The choice is really yours. Comp level body fat is miserable. you have to be mentally ready and only you can know if you are or aren’t. ETA - if your a…

This dude gets it. Everyone is little different but hitting minimum protein and fat numbers is important. I’m personally miserable under 200 carb. Btw congrats on the accomplishment!

When did a pretzel become an unwanted carb. Also no mention of actually tracking your calorie intake. Why don’t you track it for 30 days along with your weight and see what happens? The difference between cutting calories and gaining calories is surprisingly small

If you gained 20 pounds over the last two years that’s already bulking. Have you stopped gaining and just want to hit a higher calorie target? 3000 seems a touch low for a 5-11 bulking male at 163 but everyone is different. Personally @ 5-9 I have to hit 3500 to get from up from 175. Couple peanut butter sandwiches a day…

If you do Taco Bell ask for fresco style. They’ll replace the sour cream with pico and some other things I think. Drops the cals and still good. Not that sour cream is bad. IFFYM go for whatever

3k per pancake maybe?

I lost strength on my cut. My sqaut took the biggest hit dropping from 315x5 for 4 sets to 285 for about 5 reps 3-4 sets. I did temporarily stop training legs twice a week since I was doing a lot of cardio to cut so that maybe played some part. I took hits everywhere but more minor. Bench , deads, etc. ten weeks back into…

First and foremost don’t compare yourself to anyone. The playing field is not even. They’re genetically gifted maybe. You need to stop that because it’s not relevant and you may set yourself up for disappointment. You are only competing with yourself and Father Time in this “sport”. Second all my same suggestions still…

Agreed. It’s either enhanced or it took them 8 years but they said it was X months..followed with “ just buy this”... As for the 1:1 muscle to fat ratio. That’s under perfect circumstances, Great training program, solid diet , good genetics but it is what you should aim for. It’s also nearly impossible to accurately…

When I am in this scenario I usually bring or buy protein powder/bars and have a bit each day but i ageee that one week really wouldn’t any difference in the long term. I’m just being anal

Without knowing much about you the Calories overall seem way to low. Protein to low

This can be taken out of context very easily. To generic. OP might start eating 6k cal a day and just get fat. Couple times a week and maybe he makes training mistakes on that vagueness. He needs to be more methodical with his calories and training.

Nope... not especially anything.

I think this is a very difficult answer to quantify. Depends where your health markers are now. How bad things got. For me 90 days was a major difference. 6 months still a big difference from 3. A year i was a totally different person physically. 2.5 years in progress is significantly slower but that’s fine. I long ago…

You say your going over many days. What’s your weekly deficit look like?? Are you still in a deficit in a weekly basis? And if so , how much. And if not well there’s your answer And are you weighing daily under the same circumstances and taking a moving average?

If your over weight don’t bulk

How much cardio are you currently doing? I am of the add more cardio camp before dipping into cals

Ooo going to air fry some wings and try it with this

Couple hours a day? Stop

Slow down your bulk... that’s my best tip. 2 -3 pounds per month tops. As for program. Any proven progressive overload program will work. Pick the one that works with your schedule. 4 days ,5,6 etc. Personally I do a ULrPPLr which a hybrid between PHUL and a push pull leg program but if your new to programming really…

Care to link these supposed studies? Cuz it doesn’t matter

Mistakes happen. Don’t let it throw you off course. Once we stop seeing foods as good vs bad or healthy vs not healthy and starting see it as calories , macros and nutrients then less mistakes begin to occur

How lean do you want to be? Are you competing? Assuming those pictures are you all the abs are visable so I’m confused by the post

Yep.. at some you have to make a choice to eat less food or nothing will change

You look fantastic just have realistic expectations and understand that true natural 5% is Alberto Nunez at near death, competing. 8-10 for most people is difficult to sustain long term never mind true sub 8. The industry super inflates these supposed low body fat numbers to sell god knows what and I blame them for having…