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The latter. While attempting to get more muscular (naturally), of course.

I don't really know, it's hard for me to predict anything when my abs are at ~20mm while arms, chest, thighs are at 4-6mm... I still need to lose a decent amount of fat from my ab/waist/midsection area, probably reaching 6% or something overall (as measured by J/P-7). There will be no more blood...

Still cutting... only this time I'm for real!:mad:

How tendon strength equates to muscle size is still beyond me. Heavy deads, for instance, being a partial movement for the legs, its prime movers, can be inefficient for their maximal growth (despite the heavy-ass loadz, d00d), although it can be very efficient for other muscles such as traps...

30RM are physiologically different than any of 3, 5 or 10RM loads. The lower reps are more likely to use ATP-CP pathway exclusively throughout the set. The higher rep glycolytic pathway, on the other hand, that ensues right after the CP has been exhausted, uses glycogen exclusively and produces...

Cell swelling (i.e. muscle "pump"), prevention of venous return, accumulation of metabolic byproducts are all physiological factors facilitating hypertrophy. Besides I'm not only using higher rep training, but by constantly increasing loads by sufficient steps between workouts (ideally...

This is ridiculous... if we were to trust "widespread" usage, we would still be using donkeys as principal means of transportation.

This is only your opinion, and is irrelevant! You do what you like: eat away and lift more, I do what I like.

Yeah, but instead of being on topic you start commenting negatively on my wish to get leaner & muscular naturally using newer appealing 30RM research, because it goes against your wish to weigh more & lift more using tried & proven strength development techniques, so you're getting called on it...

It's just that continuing to do the previous loads after SD with the same volume will get you nowhere, and SD can't help it. You just have to increase the work volume with the previous loads somewhat. Bryan writes: "increase volume if you're not growing". Who knows what he means by that, how do...

I don't care what they're saying, it's what I do how I want to do it: eat whatever I want, train however I like, similar to how they eat & train how they like (most likely following a precooked "howto" by someone smart, but this is irrelevant). Of course I always try and find useful bits of...

You see, we don't lose just muscle & fat when cutting. We lose almost everything. Our bones become thinner too. So if you cut to sufficiently lean levels you may find that your wrist girth (where there's typically only a bone & tendons with very little fat) shrinks too. So my guess is that...

It isn't very intelligent to comment on other people's choices when they do something you can't (because you're afraid to lose much of your "strength" which may be nothing more than fortunate leverage facilitated by tendon insertion points, which maybe gave you an advantage. Let me quote Bret...

Of course some of it is, as dictated by your individual p-ratio (how much of the extra incoming calories end up as lean mass vs. fat). It's the genetic potential for trained individuals at competitive BF levels, 5% or similar. Read more here...

Wow, I've never seen so many justifications for staying on a perpetual bulk gathered in one place :D I simply remember from your log that you're natural and around +25kg over height in cm-100, which means you're rather fat.

Progressing in my training maintaining low enough %bf doing bodyrecomp, increasing base calories by small bits (+~0.5kg BW), wait until the extra BW settles in and gets recomped, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity

Because lean looks (all abs visible) are more important to me. Muscle will follow with the upcoming higher rep->5RM progression. Today I'm 63.1->62.3kg, waist 71.8->71.3. A woosh :)

More like fatter :-/ Fear not, I will start working on gaining quality mass (through progress in training) once I've reached low enough %bf.

BTW, here's Brad's article exactly on the same subject of low loads. https://www.t-nation.com/training/light-weights-for-big-gains

I suspect the same effects could be obtained when doing the higher rep work on a separate day. Strategies for Integrating Low‐Loads Periodize linearly * 4 to 8 week mesocycle Periodize non‐linearly * DUP where integrated once per week, every third week, etc * Use selectively on single‐joint...