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John Gorman also wrote a good article on reverse dieting, you can goggle him he is the owner of Team Gorman. Reverse Dieting After a Contest to Stay Lean and Grow | Team Gorman
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Diet down then once happy with leanness don't rebound.
It's not hard on paper just appetite can cause problems for most.
After competing last November it took a good 2 months of eating everything on sight before I was above 8-10% and that was cruising on 100/100 test tren and a little t3/t4 combo
I'm 100% certain if I slowly reverse dieted and slowly brought calories and macros up just enough to fuel workouts and growth I'd have stayed pretty ripped
After competing last November it took a good 2 months of eating everything on sight before I was above 8-10% and that was cruising on 100/100 test tren and a little t3/t4 combo
I'm 100% certain if I slowly reverse dieted and slowly brought calories and macros up just enough to fuel workouts and growth I'd have stayed pretty ripped
Na tren e once a week with test cyp.
Great info! What do your 3 large meals look like during the week?
An average non training day would run like this -
meal 1 - 500g grass fed lean steak mince, 250g spinach. I just cook the mince in a pan along with fresh crushed garlic, a dice red onion, fresh grated ginger, a diced scotch bonnet pepper and several sliced mushrooms. Mix it all up in abig bowl, bit of chilli sauce - good to go!!!
Meal 2 - 300g lean steak mince, 200g chicken breast mixed in a pan with 50g peanut butter, garlic chilli sauce and a load of chopped up spring onions - throw them over a bed of 400g of sliced cabbage and diced up leak and its like a big sexy Chinese chili/peanut style meal (this is currently my absolute favourite meal of the week)
Meal 3 - 6 whole freerange eggs either soft boiled or fried in grass fed butter with 250g broccoli, 100g green beans and BBQ sauce or ketchup. 300g cottage cheese with either a load of blueberries thrown in it, or I mix the cottage cheese in a blender with sugar free jelly and let it set in the fridge. Lime jelly is currently my favourite (tastes like lime cheese cake without the biscuit base!
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lets be honest its one of two things...
1) great genetics
2) they stay very lean and never gain much muscle.
with great genetics its easy to stay lean and put on muscle.... its also not incredibly hard to stay lean with ok genetics, but putting on muscle while doing so is damn near impossible.
now of course you will have guys who tell you, no no you can do it, I did it and I only have ok genetics. The fact is they are unwilling to admit to themselves they have great genetics, its almost like them saying "I didn't ride my genetics at all, it was soley due to my incredibly hard work". And I understand that, we all want to think that.
My genetics are not great, not totally crappy either. But I can tell you from someone who used to compete with ok genetics...your NOT going to maintain 8% and grow huge. Trust me I tried, I tried for years with great diets, with high protein, with 40/30/30, with 40/40/20...I tried with only 100 calories over maitenence, with 500..etc.. simple fact was..I DID NOT PUT ON MUSCLE, until I said... "yep I am going to be about 12-13% in the offseason". At this weight I would make gains, and I could see a "ok" outline of my abs.
Eat healthy, do some cardio in the offseason (not huge amounts) and lift heavy. Give yourself a cheat meal here and there to save youself from going crazy. If you do this, and really keep track of calories (i.e. food scale to the gram). Your body will let you know where its happy sitting in the offseason. If your body tells you 20%...then your eating WRONG.
I am sure some will disagree with me and that's ok...but this is just from going on 20 years of experience now and my personal view.
**** btw, doing more drugs or different types wont help in the offseason. Stuff like mast, tren etc.. really only shows or makes much of a difference when your dieting. Tren in the offseason wont make you cut, but will make your strong as a ox. But if you enjoy killing yourself with tren year round, then you probably wont listen to reason anyhow.