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Hey,
I was talking to an absolute rocket in the gym; I've just come to the end of my current blast which had some performance based goals and I was explaining my target now is to maintain or even improve these new performance benchmarks through my cruise and therefore I would keep food at maintenance levels whilst continuing to pushing overload where I can and recomping a little over next 3-4 months before I go on again.
... and the guy lost his shit; like complete emotional reaction calling me a moron, claimed recomping is impossible yada-yada. I yawned and walked off cause I ain't got time for that negativity.
But then I looked on other UK bodybuilding sites/forums and it seems here in the UK "recomp" is very frowned upon - and I'm not sure why.
Like don't get me wrong; nobody is recomping to stage condition of you're a body builder, and you're unlikely to recomp your way to a world title at a strength sport BUT there's a time and a place (ie. cruise periods) where recomp, for me at least makes sense - and it seems to work for me - understandably there are limitations to what you can achieve in a given time period whilst "recomping".
So what say you guys; do you agree recomping doesn't work at all? There is no application for it? Or is this another case of the UK fitness community being blindly dogmatic and once again lacking nuance?
I was talking to an absolute rocket in the gym; I've just come to the end of my current blast which had some performance based goals and I was explaining my target now is to maintain or even improve these new performance benchmarks through my cruise and therefore I would keep food at maintenance levels whilst continuing to pushing overload where I can and recomping a little over next 3-4 months before I go on again.
... and the guy lost his shit; like complete emotional reaction calling me a moron, claimed recomping is impossible yada-yada. I yawned and walked off cause I ain't got time for that negativity.
But then I looked on other UK bodybuilding sites/forums and it seems here in the UK "recomp" is very frowned upon - and I'm not sure why.
Like don't get me wrong; nobody is recomping to stage condition of you're a body builder, and you're unlikely to recomp your way to a world title at a strength sport BUT there's a time and a place (ie. cruise periods) where recomp, for me at least makes sense - and it seems to work for me - understandably there are limitations to what you can achieve in a given time period whilst "recomping".
So what say you guys; do you agree recomping doesn't work at all? There is no application for it? Or is this another case of the UK fitness community being blindly dogmatic and once again lacking nuance?