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@primsroses Cut all your volume in half per workout and you should be fine doing this. Will you make more gains? Probably not. Will you use up a lot more of your free time. Yes. If you do not drop your volume and just try to do twice as much, you will most likely make less gains, and then hurt...

@kekeli In a normal scenario I'd probably keep your calories where they are at for the remainder of your diet. The difference needed to push past this stage should be made up from low intensity cardio. That's what worked for me. But being at 2000 calories for over 2 months without weight loss...

@mssurrendered1 I think I dropped maybe 50-100 calories in that stretch.

@mssurrendered1 1 Per week towards the middle-end. And 2 high carb days from 5 weeks out through the end.

@mssurrendered1 Low was 200 throughout prep, maybe about 180-190 near the end. High carb day was only about 300 for most of prep, I like bumping my fats up from 60 to around 100 sometimes. Towards the end I kept fat constant and my high carb days were around 400g.

@mssurrendered1 204 lbs - 195 lbs. Thank you dude!

@dawn16 Around 203 lbs

@storm6979 228 to 195.

@storm6979 I measured in at 6 foot even, and thank you!

@jackie789 I'm pretty lenient on offseason macros. Somewhere around 350-400 carb, 100 fat, 200-230 protein. And I rested one day after each 3 day split.

@redwolf6 I did the same amount of cardio on leg day too. I think the body just gets used to whatever stresses you expose it to, like it may have been hard to do cardio and legs the first time, but after that it just got easier. It's not like the cardio was that intense either, I was able to...

@dwilk I don't test 1rms, and I lost some strength throughout prep. But prior to prep I was squatting 365x5, 455x5 deadlift. I only dumbbell bench now, but at one point I could flat bench 320 for 1.

@charlieb410 I only tracked food in mfp. I just took a rounded teaspoon worth of psyllium husk every day. Not gonna lie I think I relied on the psyillium too much and didn't eat enough vegetables. I was really backed up in my digestive system for a few weeks before fixing it with more...

@lisette Yea I kept it the same so that I knew I was increasing my caloric expenditure. My pull day would be a little over 2 hours including 10-15 minute warm-up and cardio. Push day and leg day were probably 15-20 minutes shorter.

@lisette I measured in at 6 foot even. I started to enjoy the cardio, but made for some long hours in the gym.

@trumpeter2 Definitely possible dude!

Finally found the time to create my writeup for my first contest prep, I learned so much along the way about dieting, training while dieting, and the mental difficulties of contest prep. My prep was a total of 25 weeks long and I competed in the NPC Big Sky Championships in Missoula, MT. I...