Julian's journey to competition in 2013

[JulianBee]

Do you think it's just from bumping up the cals too much and everything catching up with you now instead of doing a reverse in small increments? Maybe you were holding steady at first because your metabolism starting firing on all cylinders, but it still isn't truly caught up so you might be starting to add some bf and your body is holding onto everything over what your maintenance should be. Still looking pretty good, but it does look like some striations may be slightly less visible. Def wanna try and stay close for that August show and bring some nasty in the shred department.

Yeah I'm thinking I should have started at out around 2500 calories daily and bumped it up about 100 calories every few weeks from there. Seems like after I filled out the rest of the weight is no bueno. Good thing is it won't take me long at all to get back where I was. Just going to bring my calories down to 2700 daily and throw in a little bit of cardio for a few weeks.

[Devils]

When's your next show? why are you worried about gaining 4 lbs?

If you've got a few months between shows you could even stay around 8-10 lbs above stage weight and still make improvements along the way. Then start another prep around 12 weeks out.

[JulianBee]

When's your next show? why are you worried about gaining 4 lbs?

If you've got a few months between shows you could even stay around 8-10 lbs above stage weight and still make improvements along the way. Then start another prep around 12 weeks out.

August 25th I think. I was up 10lbs but my main concern was it seemed to literally come on over night. I'm just scaling back on calories a bit to try to stay where I'm at and then I'm going to do as you suggested and start another prep 12 weeks out