pros,vets,etc...need your advices

mike1107 · Jan 5, 2003

I didn't train this last 3 weeks because of a vertebral injury..nothing very serious but my chiropractor told me to stop training for this time to let things go better.
He told me to rest a lot as I felt a little overtrained , so I did...
I was bulking (no AA's) and before I stopped I was almost 220lbs with 12%bf but since I stopped , I lost a few lbs and my bf went to 15% (not sure as I'm a little bloated cuz of christmas,new years,birthday meals... ) due to no activities/bad diet (which happens very rarely as I always have my diet under control)
I'm going to start juice in my bulking cycle at the beginning of february and wanted to know what you'd do as I find my bf% is too high...
My question is , as:

-I have a medium metabolism
-T3 & GH wil be in my next cycle (6 months GH T3 /8 weeks on/8 weeks off)

would you continue to bulk or would you cut until february and try to lose 2-3% bf ?
need your advices

xcelbeyond · Jan 5, 2003

Just some food for thought here. If my BF is higher than I like, I get it down BEFORE I begin a cycle. When your "on," you're more concerned with putting on muscle and don't want to worry about fat (although it can easily be controlled with diet). When you're in "pre-contest" mode, juice is just there to save as much muscle as possible while cutting.

In your case, since you will be in "coming back"/recovery mode for a while, it would seem that you should just watch your diet while your body is getting adjusted to working out again.

xcel

bigheinz · Jan 5, 2003

Yes. you start to get muscle mass at the same time you loose bf with a proper nutrition plan.
Start with all my friend and becarefull with the injure...
good look.

mike1107 · Jan 5, 2003

thanks guys !
I think I'll adjust a low carb diet for 2 weeks to drop a little bf% while I'll come back and then when I'll have dropped a few bf% , I'll come back to a bulking diet.
Would you add some cardio to drop bf% ? how much ? I train on "HIT" (3Xweek)...

thanks

xcelbeyond · Jan 5, 2003

I might suggest LOW INTENSITY, "morning-only, prior to eating" cardio, 30-45 minute sessions as many as your schedule allows.

xcel

bigheinz · Jan 5, 2003

With a good nutrition plan you dont need cardio ( 2.27 gr of prot and play with 0.68 to 0.90 gr. of carbs x pound of body weight).
Cardio dont let you to recover from the workouts and you get easy overtrained with a 3 day workouts a week.
If you insist to cardio do it the same days of your workouts after the workout and after taking a protein carbo shake to avoid the effect of cortisol hormone, just for 20 minutes low intensity sesions, and inmediatly eat a high glucogen carb 100 gr. carbs) like seet potato or banana with meat (70 gr prot).
For advanced bb i suggest 1 workout a week and 2 cardios a week for a total of 3 workouts a week.
By this 2 ways you can get lean mass at the same time you loose bf.

goog look..

mike1107 · Jan 5, 2003

Bigheinz, check your PM

xcelbeyond · Jan 5, 2003

The reason I suggested morning cardio is, he wants to drop BF quickly. With "low intensity," I mean 60-65% of max - he shouldn't burn muscle following this. Recommendation was based on where he's currently at and his goals.

xcel