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I prefer fit girls who are consistent in maintaining reasonable fitness goals.

Looks like pole dancer trainer!

Goal is to finish bulk to ~185-190 and then cut down to ~9% at 175 or so at 5`7" and 55 years old.

Cutting is inevitable, but I always enjoy the processing of revealing the bulk and use that as my inspiration. Fat comes with muscle, but fat really is so much easier to loose that gaining muscle. Sometimes the whole process seems like a grind, but the end results are so worth it!

Amarillo by morning.

She said something about me being a wild animal and I should go free.

Nothing like gym time!

Yeah, I need this today!

Is a fire tiger hard to handle?

7 weeks into the current bulk and good things are happening.

Accept of course

I think I could make it work.

Alaska

No

Maybe both

Sorry, no.

I can't see the squirrel!

No idea what your diet is like. This is important, because when losing fat, diet is everything. To do this correctly, you need to know your Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE) which requires tracking both food and weight daily. If you would like to know more specific information, please provide much more detail about…

Let me get this straight... 5'9" 175 9.4 BF? So that gives a LBM of 159 lbs and a FFMI of 23.6. And this is a first bulk??? Someone please correct my math if I am wrong but WOW.. just wow!

I have done it both ways and I am not sure if one is better. For me, slower reverses seem to increase fat loss a bit longer and in the end result in less fat gain on the hormonal reversal. But on the other side of the coin, it is less time in a surplus and in a building state. I tend to do it slower because my yearly gain…

It really is not that complicated, but people add more than necessary. Training and nutrition are totally separate things but there is interaction. In my opinion, THE single most important thing in training is intensity and intensity requires focus. So whether training fasted or fed is best decided by what give the most…

This. Personally I train fasted. I have done both and I am able to maintain intensity with either but I feel my focus is better when fasted. I am not certain that one way is better than another. It is probably controversial, but I believe BCAAs pre-workout and protein and carbs post-workout benefit fasted training.

Reverse dieting is simply slowly adding back in calories and carbohydrates in a slow and controlled manner. The objective is to improve/maintain solid metabolic health and reverse the hormonal adaptions that occur naturally while in a caloric restriction (dieting). It is done methodically by increasing carbohydrates and…

Nice delts and traps....oh wait, what does that mean???? I would say low dose. You really gotta tighten things up if you want to maximize results!

OK, well I think that may be a little low in estimation, but hard to say. I would say you could pull off 1.5-2 lbs/mo on newbie gains for like 6 months. You can probably get close to 20 lbs. the first year if you do everything right. Enjoy it because it will fade quickly after that.

[quote="McCloud33;31826217@AKDonF‌ I know I'm years away from having to worry about this, I was just curious is all. Does the 50/50 muscle/fat, go to more like 10/90 once you've been doing it for a few years? I'm 5'-8" and hoping do be down to #165+/- @~12% BF by June, then bulk up to around 185 by New Year. Somewhere…

Because you haven't done your first real bulk yet, I wouldn't worry too much about this yet. You can safely gain in the realm of about a pound a week of which hopefully half will be muscle. When you are more experienced and a few more years down the road, you will understand your body and easily figure this out. For now…