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Just had my yearly Dexa scan - 219.8lbs. at 6.1%. Gained ~18lbs. over the last year and came in at my leanest ever. Been on 0 carbs this week, should be ~230lbs. after filling up this weekend.
The redacted number is from last summer's rebound - wanted to just show dieted down numbers for comparison.
Obviously most of these results are from my training over the last 12 months, but I'm very proud that for the last 8 weeks, in the depths of dieting, I've only trained on my Bowflex. If any of you had doubts about them, they're clearly sufficient for maintaining muscle.
While I love nothing more than getting under heavy weight and pushing myself to the absolute limit, I think I'll slot in more moderate work somewhat regularly (going back to a real gym for the first time tomorrow). I feel one of the reasons I had such good gains over last year and maintained them only on a Bowflex was because my body had much less stress and fatigue from not benching 365-405lbs. every week, not Hack squatting 540-630lbs. every week, etc. I really wonder if training hard like that on previous diets actually made me lose a bit of muscle rather than retain it.
My local Dexa facility had a buy one / get one free special so I'll get another in probably 2 months on my rebound and update this thread.
Happy to answer questions on training / diet / supplementation / what I did over the last year. I've learned a lot from this board and enjoy giving back.
Love it, gives perspective to the idiots that are afraid to state they're over 20%. So many people that are fat as hell claiming 12-15%.