My goals are still the same, i’d like to be able to continue to build muscle, gain strength, and try to be lean enough where i can see definition. I also would like to try and compete eventually. I’ve continued eating around the same calories as when it started bridge 3.0 for the second time, 2800 calories roughly, so i’m not sure if I am still just not eating enough to get to that point, or if I am eating too much.
With this information, what suggestions would you have for me? Also, what program(s) do you think would be suiting for me to run next?
Apologies if this is in the wrong forum, I wasn’t sure if I should post in training or nutrition since the topic relates to both.
Thanks again to all you guys & gals at the BBM group, this has been an amazing community to work with
I’d probably do Powerbuilding 1 or 2 depending on how much time you have to train. If you can swing 4 days, I’d do powerbuilding 2. I think if you’d like to lean out more, I’d probably start in a small deficit, e.g. ~250kCal or so.
Thanks for the advice Jordan, I just grabbed myself Powerbuilding 1 for the time being.
I’ll start doing a small deficit and see how that goes. When do you suggest stopping a cut? I thought I read somewhere at 33” waist, but I may be wrong on that.
I also had a question and would like to hear your thoughts on it. With my work, we have a program where we get discounts towards our insurance price based on a ‘wellness’ system, and one thing we do is a 30min-45min Crossfit class. How would/will this impact my training? I wasn’t sure if I could count it as one of my GPP days, or if doing this class in addition to Powerbuilding 1 would be a bad idea.
I think somewhere in the 31-33" range is reasonable unless you want to be very very lea.
As far as the wellness, I don’t think the class will significantly affect your training after you get used to it, which will probably take a few weeks. I’d put it on one of your GPP days.
When in a deficit, would you recommend increasing protein intake? Right now I’ve been consuming at least 2g per kg of body weight which puts me at 178g.
Also, should I be aiming for particular amount of kg lost per week/month or do you think just being in a deficit till I hit, for e.g, a waist circumference of 31-33”, is ok, and then increasing calories again to a surplus.
