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Hey Dr. Nuance ,

I am close to my fat loss goal but I have hit a wall. I ran the Bridge 1.0 while eating your recommending recomp cal (TBAB) and dropped some body fat. I have started the 3 day hyper, but I need to make some marco nutrient adjustments, I can tell I have been on a deficit for a bit and need to bring my calories back up (feeling a bit tired, hard to get up in the mornings, and a bit on the moody side). What would you recommend? I would like to break the fat loss plateau and still being able to when possible to add 2.5 lbs on the bar per week on the 3 day hyper.

Also, even though this is the nutrition page, would doing sets of 8 instead of 6’s (no change in RPE) on 3 day hyper help speed up fat loss? Or would doing sets of 8 be too stressful to recover from.

Thanks doc!

I don’t think that it’s entirely reasonable to think one can add weight to the bar linearly for any extended period of time. That said, I would expect to see your strength improve overall on any one of our programs, the 3 day hypertrophy included. So, adding back some calories in the form of carbohydrates and fats would be the recommendation.

I don’t think doing sets of 8 over 6’s would encourage greater fat loss, especially if not in a calorie deficit. I also don’t think the stress of sets of 8 is > sets of 6, in general.