When Should I Stop?

Training Bodybuilding
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Hello T-Nation, I have been training for about 4 years now. Well, actually I have been training correctly for about 1 and a half years. I have packed on about 15 pounds of muscle onto my once 6 foot 175 pound frame. I now weigh close to 190 pounds and am 6 foot one.

I am currently about to finish an intermediate level Ian King designed workout and can now move to the advanced level. But I am noticing along with muscle I am gaining a bit of fat. Nothing to crazy, thanks to proper dieting I still stay in the 8%-12% range.

Now eventually I will have to do a fat loss program but I am wondering when to start. The advanced workout is about 27 weeks long and I am scared I may lose a lot of definition during it.

At what weight should a 6 foot person stop dieting to gain weight? I was thinking like 205 and then cutting fat for an end weight of 200 lbs. Should I do some fat loss now or after the workout. The workout does not recommend cardio because it inhibits Type 1 or type 2 muscle growth. I have 3 weeks left until I would be starting advanced please help. Also the workout came from a book called the book of muscle by mens health, but it is written by Ian King

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What’s your goal? If its to look like Arnold than you have a long way to go. We don’t know what kind of body you want, so there is no right answer.

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when you are as big as you want to be. Duh!
“When should I wipe my ass guys? Should I wait until I am done crapping or should i wipe it in between dropping logs?”

Stop when you are happy with your size, it sounds like your lean enough so you shouldn’t lose too much muscle when you cut.

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Umm, why not try simply reducing your food intake by a little bit? With experimentation, you should be able to fing a level that allows you to build muscle but prevents you from gaining fat disproportionately.

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Thanks for the help, I guess I was asking for those responses. True as they may be I guess I was just wondering if there was a weight commonly though to be the cut off before turning into a far guy. But you guys are right. I have my eyes set on 220 right now, lets see what I look like then