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@brothermaurice What were your T3, TSH, and RT3 values when you were very lean and when you were bulking? When it comes to blood work normal and optimal are different things

@brothermaurice If I had to guess I’d probably say your activity is very high and drives that high TDEE, and at the end of the cut your thyroid function was suppressed. As you reintroduced cals your thyroid regained function and starting driving back to your normal (high) metabolic rate. Have...

@christinaf It does have a significant effect on recovery, and you’re not going to experience much fat loss in one week. I’m not sure what you mean by “desensitizing metabolism”. The only situation where I’d lower food in a deload is if you’re experiencing digestive issues from high food intake.

@christinaf Cutting calories down during a deload mitigates the purpose and effectiveness of a deload, which is to reduce fatigue. Why would you change anything?

@perciville If you are making progress and enjoying your training then by all means continue, though this is a programming technique I’d primarily use for a more advanced trainee who is very strong and needs to vary their stimulus to avoid injury. I would generally recommend against it for...

@stilldreamn Your situation is interesting. Obviously just lift on your off days, but I would do alternating upper/lower So it would look like this Week 1 - M - work - Tu - work - W - upper A - Th - lower A - F - work - Sat - work - Sun - work Week 2 - M - upper B - Tu - lower B - W - work...

@kate930 I feel like this sub grew considerably while r/fitness was shut down, and a lot of the questions people posted there migrated here. It happened to r/bodybuilding too but the mods over there were proactive with cracking down on it.

@daughteroftheonetrueking Even though your diet sucks there should be enough protein in there to have seen at least some gains over the course of a few years. Your training intensity is probably severely lacking. Bring down the volume and train close to or to failure, not to mild discomfort...

@monicaduncan The r/fitness wiki is a good place to start for general information and a crash course on nutrition. As far as what to do, that depends on what you enjoy, what will keep you coming back consistently, and what your goals are. You said you want to build muscle, resistance training...

@sendy123 Honestly if you’ve been doing everything for this long and are still this lost with how to make progress, as well as seemingly being plagued by paralysis by analysis, I would recommend hiring a coach to take all of the thinking out of the equation for you

@gloriav You should be training close to or to failure (0-3 RIR) regardless of the number of sets. That part is not an either/or. Use a program made by someone who knows what they’re doing and do the number of sets that tells you to do.

@kendraw You’re literally experiencing the negative consequences of this kind of volume and still think you need this much? You should really put some more thought into that. Hitting everything twice a week is great. Hitting everything twice a week with this kind of volume is completely...

@journeytolife77 Volume is a little much, especially for barbell movements, and you’ve chosen four very taxing movements. If you have two leg days I would move deads to the second one and put a leg press on that day for your main quad movement.

@taught2beenslaved Paul Carter is hands down one of the biggest pricks in the online fitness space. Just like anyone else, he has some good information and some that isn’t so good (4-5 rep bicep curl sets???), but the way he goes about delivering his viewpoint is so unnecessarily condescending...

@rmacfarland +1 This is exactly what I would do with movement selection too

@jrminoh419 “Waist training” isn’t going to help you lose fat. Consistently eat less calories than you burn, and engage in a physical activity that you enjoy. Hiking, biking, running, lifting, calisthenics, etc. Give the wiki of r/fitness a read.

@clintmurphy72 Really good showing for your first comp. You already know what you need, overall size, but most of all back width and thickness. I would throw arms and rear delts in there as well. A 2+ year off season is a good idea. Your back pose needs some work as well. Looking slightly...

@robrandazzo First off, soreness doesn’t necessarily indicate growth, it indicates a novel stimulus. If you’re not used to training to failure it will cause you to get more sore. That said, the issue with RIR training is that in order to accurately gauge RIR, you have to train to failure for a...