Recent content by noah

You might have fun with Lyle's site, http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/

Can one make efficient progress (gain muscle, lose fat) by having deviations above and below maintenance in calories consumed, higher some days, lower others, or is it better to be in either a calorie loss or calorie excess state for a longer period of time (cutting / bulking cycles)? In other...

DKM, when do you increase load on your routine, between every workout (3 increases in 1 day), every day, every other day, or something else?

I would think a SD period should be part of a 'cutting cycle', meaning you SD at the end to reset your muscles.  But it would be a bad idea to combine the SD with a calorie deficit; this I believe is the only sense in which the SD is not 'recommended'.  So cut for awhile, then SD while back on...

That is similar to my current experiment - 4 days dieting, 3 days overeating, and 4 days in a row hst-like workouts (starting the night before the overeating days).  Sorta continuing the previous UD2 pattern I was in with the 4/3 split.  Hoping this will be good to accomplish some of both goals...

Does this workout approach sound like it might work, or is it complete silliness? Taking the number that is WEIGHT * SETS * REPS, using it as some sort of 'total work' indicator per workout, and trying to make sure it always increases from workout to workout. So in this case, one could increase...