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Originally Posted by CFD
What a bummer. lol I finished this bulking cycle and am going to do a 4 week cutting cycle before switching to maintenance for the summer. I do a 3-day split for cutting so I can incorporate 3 days of cardio. In this program I do deadlifts, they are one of my toughest lifts due to the fact I have had two hernia repairs from years past, so any ways, I wear a belt doing deadlifts and I was shocked that I am 3 notches from where I usually am, body fat measurements don't seem out of line for after a bulk and I'm at 185, typical after a bulk, I usually cut to 175 but man that belt was tight, may have to cut for 6 weeks. lol.
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Got a hernia one time too and I am 100% convinced it was from playing softball, not lifting heavy.
To each their own, and you appear to be in good shape ESPECIALLY for your age, but I don't subscribe to that system. Let me get bigger so I can then try to lose and then maintain? WTF is maintenance anyway? What exactly are you "maintaining"? If you aren't going forwards then you are going backwards....just saying.
Now once a year before vacation I make a dedicated effort to lose some weight....other than that, it's do more, get stronger, and over time get bigger. My progression through the years...
15 yrs old (when I started lifting) 115lbs
18 yrs old 132lbs
21 yrs old 150lbs
30 yrs old 181lbs
35 yrs old 198lbs
40 yrs old 226lbs
40.5 yrs old 195lbs....
At the age of 30 I moved to Atlanta from small town living. The traffic, work, raising a son active in baseball cut into gym time so cardio started becoming less and less frequent as the years went on.
But I said when I was 40 I'd go back to a thinner me so I did and I won't go back to being 220 +...