Currently I’m 6’3", weigh 210lbs, with 16.5% body fat. Unfortunately I let myself balloon up(from about 12%)after I moved and decided to eat out at every meal for about a month. Anyways, I’ve been back in the gym for 3 months, cut in the last month since beginning a Westside style of training and following JB’s Massive eating, I have increased my lean mass and strength significantly. I’m up about 6 lbs of lean mass and my max bench and incline have jumped 15-20%. I’m also not gaining any fat right now. The problem is that I’m already too fat at 16.5%. So should I continue bulking up and adding strength like I never have before or should I switch gears, lose the fat and then switch more towards a mass-building phase. By the way, Westside style periodization mixed in with some functional strength exercises from John Davies is an amazing workout if you haven’t tried it yet.
If i were you I’d diet down to about 10-12%bf. Especially if you’re implementing massive eating principles to your diet. You’ll find that you’ll gain more muscle compared to fat when you’re leaner. Assuming that is your goal. If you diet down please research previous diet articles[t-dawg] as you want to preserve your muscle mass.
Intensity brings up a point that I’ve been trying to search on this site for! Anybody remember where it was that JB expained in a little more detail the very fact that intensity brought up; that it was better to FIRST get you BF% below 15% (more like 10-12%) before intiating Massive Eating protocols? Or does somebody rememeber exactly how he put it?
I would try to cut when my strength gains have slowed.
then when your BF is low again do what intensity said. Im not necasserily in disagreement with him he brought up a good point i just think that if your gaining LBM without additional fat why mess with that (at least while its working and then do what intensity said)
bumping for a potentially more informed opinion for us curious folk