2015-08-04, 01:34 PM
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I have regressed, but I haven't.
I've been losing weight for the better part of 4-5 months now, and it's probably the healthiest cut I've ever done since my strength is only now starting to decline. I haven't been this light since 2011, before I had ever touched a barbell, and I've never been this lean in my life. For a long time I've been going crazy on weight loss and equally crazy when bulking, so my strength levels would bounce up and down erratically depending on what I was doing. Highs would be 185-lbs/84-kg, lows would be maybe 168-lbs/76-kg, deadlift for example would go from 495 to 435 when hovering between those two bodyweights.
Well, now I'm at 159, pretty sure I'm sub-10% body fat (no picture cause I just had chips and a footlong). I just restarted squatting and deadlifting after finally diagnosing and fixing the glute problem I've had for almost a year now, haven't properly done either in 4 months. So right now I'm sitting at 205x3x3 bench, 290x6x3 squat, 395x5x3 deadlift. Maxes I'm guessing are 235, 345, 425, compared to 250/425/495 at 180. Squat and deadlift have actually been going up rapidly thanks to muscle memory or whatever I don't know what it's called.
I'll be done with this on my birthday, which is in a month. I'm excited cause I'm finally building a good foundation for me to gain real weight, and I feel like I have the discipline to do that right this time.
First meet is in October. No goals since I don't know when my squat/DL will stop increasing. But yay progress!
I have regressed, but I haven't.
I've been losing weight for the better part of 4-5 months now, and it's probably the healthiest cut I've ever done since my strength is only now starting to decline. I haven't been this light since 2011, before I had ever touched a barbell, and I've never been this lean in my life. For a long time I've been going crazy on weight loss and equally crazy when bulking, so my strength levels would bounce up and down erratically depending on what I was doing. Highs would be 185-lbs/84-kg, lows would be maybe 168-lbs/76-kg, deadlift for example would go from 495 to 435 when hovering between those two bodyweights.
Well, now I'm at 159, pretty sure I'm sub-10% body fat (no picture cause I just had chips and a footlong). I just restarted squatting and deadlifting after finally diagnosing and fixing the glute problem I've had for almost a year now, haven't properly done either in 4 months. So right now I'm sitting at 205x3x3 bench, 290x6x3 squat, 395x5x3 deadlift. Maxes I'm guessing are 235, 345, 425, compared to 250/425/495 at 180. Squat and deadlift have actually been going up rapidly thanks to muscle memory or whatever I don't know what it's called.
I'll be done with this on my birthday, which is in a month. I'm excited cause I'm finally building a good foundation for me to gain real weight, and I feel like I have the discipline to do that right this time.
First meet is in October. No goals since I don't know when my squat/DL will stop increasing. But yay progress!