jack
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A little more context here as the others have said would really help.. I’m guessing a little to hard meant you ate to much & now your wondering if you need to pull back to drop again?
No training wise . Yeah I did have a little cheat meals post show . But nothing crazy
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When you say you went hard at it post show , do you mean you binged ?
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You will have laid down some fat and caused some inflammation and water retention. You have two choices, either continue with your gaining phase now and hold calories where they are initially to allow some re-comp before making further changes. or cut back down and start again from a leaner point.
It’s very normal to put a few kgs on post show as your body fills back out with water and glycogen, so 3kg above stage weight is reasonable to begin a gaining phase from imo.
So if I got back down to 3kg above stage weight . Would you hold there for a few weeks ? And then push up to gain 0.5lb a week
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Hi mate
Why don’t you do both?
PPL R UL R
Hi rich . It’s just finding the right number of sets for each workout
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Try one first and see how you get on 🙂
And how many sets would you recommend? As I want to target chest lats rear delts [/quote]
Volume allocation / number of sets will be determined by your training split / how you recover,
If you had a ppl / ul split for example you could add extra volume for the body parts you want to bring up within your upper session [/quote]
That’s what I’ll do mark . I’ll do 4 sets for chest and lats on push and pull and then on upper I’ll do 3 sets
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Try one first and see how you get on 🙂
And how many sets would you recommend? As I want to target chest lats rear delts
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Hi Jack.
It’s a case of picking a split that allows you to apply enough focus to the body parts you want while still allowing for overall progression.
This will be different for all.
Why not do both. I’m a big fan of
Push / pull / legs / rest / upper / lower / rest
How would you structure it to mainly do chest lats and rear delts
Obviously I want my legs bigger too ha -
Do you know your weaker areas?
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Looking back now . I was just a trophy boy for him . Post show is so crucial. And he didn’t check in on me for 3 days
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If you’ve got a coach telling you what to do then you need to ask him for the reasons for doing so if you’re looking for justification. If he think this is the best way to do things, then you need to trust their judgement
Yeah but I don’t think being up 6kg in a week is right either . What would you do IYO ? As I don’t wanna get fat either [/quote]
how do you look now with 6kg on?
if you look awesome then id say all is good but i would not want to see this trend continue and I would want to be holding were you are a little.
If you look much softer and dont feel great then its clearly been to much of a quick increase.
I would speak to your coach and address with him/her, thats what you pay them for.
Everything your doing must be specific to you not us [/quote]
Yeah I don’t like the way I look man . Spoke to coach and not with him anymore . [/quote]
Oh really ? He did not accepted your feelings and so you “broke up” ?
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Basically . Now I’ve no coach and it’s post show . Have to do it myself -
Oh wow! That’s crazy! Did he give you any reasons for his methods? So sorry to hear this!
Shit as I was so good post show . Then hits me with so much food and I put on too much weight
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Oh wow! That’s crazy! Did he give you any reasons for his methods? So sorry to hear this!
No reason
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No reason , I just said F that . So now I have to go back to zero carb to lose 2-3kg and start again 🫣
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And how long have you been going since the last little re set you did with training
What do you mean ? I’m just coming off the back end of prep . So just re assessing lifts and making sure accuracy is on point
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Yeah could have been maybe just a once off
But 2 sets IMO is very little to not progress ??
You may have had slightly less sleep the night before, was under more stress, were less hydrated, didn’t take enough rest between sets, the smith machine may need oiling, you were distracted, the set up was slightly off… Maybe those 5 reps you got, were actually better quality reps than the 6 you got previously, which means you did progress. Don’t over worry about it.
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Thanks. Hopefully just once off