Until you have done a contest cut its really hard to say how long. In my opinion you should pick a show, set that as your target date and train for it. If you have a trainer who is running your...
Just bring ion the carbs slowly. I can understand the apprehension about adding a bunch at once. Taper them in until the gains start and then continue to taper up until you reach a level of gains...
Seems pretty reasonable to me.
$120 for the federation fee for me, $100 for the one class entry fee, $150 for tanning, $225 for 2 nights in a hotel, $75 on posing trunks, $600 for...
What do you mean no peak strategy? I am not going into details about what I have done, and what is left, I figure I had to pay for the plan and everything, and I am not going to share details down...
I don't FEEL defensive, I am sick of fish. I like my fish deep fried in batter, with hush puppies, fries and beer to go with it. I ****ing despise tilapia (sadly it is the most affordable fish),...
Going slower is great when you have more time to go slow. I had 15 weeks to prep. My lean mass lost was about 5-6 lbs out of 39 lbs total loss. Its hard to get a lot better than that without a...
I agree on many methods working. Effective and best are two different things. The blandness did not really kick in until this week. I also did not expect to lose as much weight as I did, again...
I am fine with the "boring/bland" to asses what works most easily. If you limit variables you limit the things that cannot be controlled. With this prep I have a baseline to work with now. Would I...
I am just at the mental fatigue point of being under 2800 calories for a long time. Before the water and carb reduction this week the weight loss was 242 to 213. This last stretch is just the water...
...and i'm tired of this crap. I went from about 20% body fat to what I am calling 9.5% right now.
I am tired of plain white fish, chicken breast, asparagus, broccoli, no beer, no red meat. Sure...
I wish I could believe that a calorie is a calorie, but I would argue that a protein calorie is not the same as fat/carb ones. I base it on theory and my own limited experience though so it has...
very good reading. having case studies helps to see how things work in a well documented case rather than badly recalled second hand information.
I am in the last few days before going on stage and...
I have always felt doing cardio before weights means wrong priorities. Weights burn as many calories, help increase lean mass and doing cardio before that is counterproductive imo.
Do whatever it takes to get yourself into the gym and make it consistent. If gloves are what you want then go for it. My wife used to wear them, eventually she got tired of it and didn't bother...
