My training sessions currently are enough energy expenditure for my goals.
From my experience, cardio is not necessary to get deep into the single digit percent body fat.
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IMO, it is critical to drop fat slow enough to assure there is very little if any loss of upper body strength dropping to 10% body fat. I always had a strength metric to monitor a 5 rep upper body press.
yeah that’s what I’m saying about aiming to lose 1-2lbs per week, moreso for loose skin than anything else. I honestly couldn’t care if I lose strength if I’m happy with how I’m looking as it goes, my priority is the physique. I understand what you’re saying about trying to keep strength as it would be a good indicator of muscle loss prevention, I do track all my sessions too, so make sure I’m getting close if not progressing on my lifts the longer a cut goes.
You are right about one thing, you sure as shit don’t need cardio to hit a bmi of 35. You are clinically obese, and if walking, literally, 3500 steps per day is too much work for you, then you clearly don’t give a fuck about your overall health.
oh jesus, you’re really referring to BMI in the sense of bodybuilding? I was classed as overweight, 3 weeks out from a show. I’ll stick to doing what I’m doing regarding that thanks, don’t need help on how to lose weight.
I’m not sure a lot of people scrolled to the original posts, but I encourage others to see that you were a prior stage competitor with a worthy physique. No doubt, the apple has fallen far from that tree but you clearly know how to get back. It’s just gonna take a lot of work and time. I would also be concerned about possible loose skin at this point but you’re still relatively young so maybe not.
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I did, but was disappointed that OP’s first contest choice was Men’s Physique.
OP was definitely on his way to represent himself well in a contest. BUT… the curse of Covid. I cannot imagine having to deal with that disappointment.
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ha you’re not the first to have said that. I just preferred those physiques back in the day, now I can say that I much prefer classic physique. however I’m not sure I’ll fancy running the amount of steroids those guys need to, to get on stage. albeit something that is far into the future for me to consider at this moment in time. as for the disappointment yeah I fell into the dark abyss and chose to eat to make me feel better, hey ho it is what it is, I feel like now I’m ready to get back.
as for what shaw has to say, I appreciate the kind words and yeah, can’t say I ate an apple in the past five years! got too carried away but I’m motivated now to get back into the swing of things.
I’ll maybe do bi-weekly updates and monthly pictures. I’m having cheat foods on Thursdays and will continue to do so as the weight drops, per my previous experiences.
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EDITED….its all good man,
Good luck.
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20 days later and I don’t really see much changes in my physique, I think my arms look a bit bigger which means I am getting leaner. I’ve gone from 258 in the last update to in these pictures below 252. Those pics taken last week when I trained at Extreme in Glasgow, such a cool gym, wish it was local.
As of today I’m 248lbs so dropped 10lbs in around 3 weeks whilst my calories have remained the same. Training day being 2700, 215P, 350C and 55F. Non training day around 1750 cals, 210P, 130C and 40F. I have not yet incorporated any cardio of the sort and don’t track steps, I do not go out of my way to walk anywhere, much to the chagrin of EF above. Thursdays are still cheat days too, not tracked.
I started taking BPC-157 around 2 weeks ago at 250mcg ed and it has seriously helped the pain I have in my left quad but not completely healed it. I’ took a week off doing legs - which would’ve been 2 sessions - and had a light leg day today with no pain which is brilliant. I may yet double the dose and see if that completely eradicates the slight pain I sometimes get because I want to go back to squatting heavy.
As Nomad suggested regarding trying to test strength, I’ve not noticed any negative changes other than my squat dropping 10kg but more due to pain tolerance and my barbell row doing the same. There’s a plate loaded press that I set on an incline for push and my working sets have remained at 6 reps twice with 100kg either side. I do think the lever is easy though because I struggled to do 4 reps on incline dbs at 55kg in the gym mentioned above, however can do 10 reps at 50kg for two sets. My gym dbs only go up to 50kg, I am in the process of finding a new gym.
