I am on week 7 of the hypertrophy template. I still have a long way to go. I am measuring 43.5 to 44 inches on the waist (the lower I think might be measurement error). I messed with my calories wrong adding way too much around week 4 and have gained weight but haven’t noticed a change in the waist measurement over the last 2 week. I felt it was hard to recover with the volume but after reading “To Be a Beast” I think I went way too far went from 1,600 to 2,800. I also did stick well to it for a couple of weeks averaging about 3100 calories due to making some bad choices a couple of times when eating out in social situations. I am cutting the calories down by Jordan’s recommendation of 25g grams of carbs and 10 fat this week. I am not sure if the weight gain might be water due to a lot more carbs from where I started. So I am getting this straightened out.
So the question I have is to run the 7 week Hypertrophy again or should I maybe go with the endurance template?
If I rerun hypertrophy should I start with the high intensity early on instead of just 1X week LISS?
Will week 1 serve as deload?
Would increasing cardio to 3X a week either 2 X HIIT and 1 X LISS or 2X Liss and 1 HIIT be a bad idea while sticking to the rest of the program?
Even though my calories being off messed up the goal of the program. I am still glad I did it. I really feel my work capacity is higher especially on my DL that was stalling before likely due to lack of volume. I am feeling a lot less inconsistent with the DL than I was when I started.