Fun fact - gaining muscle mass changes your body fat distribution (and in general just having more mass makes you look more impressive even if you have a bit more fat) so it’s actually quite possible that you are gaining bf and looking better. It’s just the fact that your weight is staying the same is putting me off here, because that would mean you are losing muscle and gaining fat at the same time, which would definitely make for a worse physique. It could be that you were dehydrated when getting the bf reading, that affects it a lot, and you’ll look dryer as well, so that could be it.
I’ve gained 17 pounds since I was at 11%. The last few weeks my BF has ticked up a little, nothing radical, so it’s probably more about diet changes - more carbs - than anything else.
I don’t think program hopping is the enemy; it’s your nutritional mindset. Growth or cutting is strictly dictated by how you eat. Just stay the course in terms of food.
I do have issues with eating in surplus, and when I do, I gain too fast. I stopped counting about a year ago, and just eat or cut based on the daily scale. I tend to gain and lose too fast.
The deal with program hopping is that I always start very conservatively so I end up losing several weeks before I get back to weights that are heavy for me. The first time I did SS I was doing 195 for sets across on BP. When I switched to 5/3/1, I think I set my training weight at something like 175 - start low, progress slow, make PR’s, etcetera. Of course, by the time I got to five forward and three back, five cycles, my TM was then 185. And then I switched, starting over on something else too low,
Food and a program I think.I’m going to stay on 5/3/1 for a while and see where I can get. I might change up from BBB, to Pros, to Beach Body, but I’m going to keep the main lifts the same and just stick with the program and see what happens.
My 1RM are finally getting close to where they were in the Summer of 2016, so, I’m just going to keep plugging.
Me too. I started this slow and steady bulking plan at the beginning of the year. The goal is/was 1.5 lbs per month. I was dead on after two months; I gained 3 lbs. That put me at 222 at the beginning of March. I should be 225 at the end of April. I’m currently 238. I don’t know what happened but I’m going to keep going. I’m still hoping for slow gains around 1.5 lbs per month but I’m about a year ahead of schedule…which means I’ve gained fat. Actually, I’m hoping it’s just bloat from the creatine because I gained about 10 pounds when I added that to the mix. Either way, I jiggle when I run now.
In theory one should lose the weight, but I had the same problem in September. 10 lbs in four days. I let it hang around until after Halloween and then it took me 6 weeks to lose it.
Hey man chiming in here… It’s a worldwide thing we are all gathering fat, it’s a conspiracy of some kind.
Serious man, if what you see in the mirror is good, then everything is good.
If you store fat evenly over the whole body I don’t think it matters that much. Then you’re just right on track.
At a loss for what else to do, and quite agitated, so I just did the DL and got out. Was going to do some pumpy arm stuff, but want to do OHP tomorrow, so that was out. Cut the AMRAP at ten, had way more in the tank, to be expected, but want to take things slow with the DL.
Going to work up to 1RM testing for the de-load week, then just do the 10X5@50%. Looking to get 155 on OHP, 215 on BP, 275 on SQ, not sure what my plan will be on DL, guess I’ll just work up and see where I get.
BF% came back down this week. May go low carb this week just to see what happens. No plans really.
No jinx here Mate, I’m impressed. My 1RM stays the same, just a tad under that I can rep. It’s just not moving. So everybody setting a PR on OHP I look and say ahh man I wish But it’ll be there one day.
C4W4D2 - SQ
BWX10, 45X5, 95X5, 135X3, 185X2, 225X1, 275X1, 120X10X4
BPA’S and crunches in between, 25x5
My squat PR is 290 but that was two summers ago. 275 is the most I have lifted since then, and on target with what I hoped to get. I’m lifting fasted and low carb this week, so I was a bit worried about being able to get it. I had to do a little Good Morning action out of the hole, but it was otherwise a good rep. I suspect if I had been fed properly, 285 would be attainable - it will certainly be my goal for the next deload.
Happy with where I’m at. Thinking ahead to Cycle 6, will most likely reset but we’ll see how it goes.
But it’ll be there one day.