sup folks,
for those of y'all who are already fairly lean but trying to get to "peak leanness" for an event, as you approach your goal weight have you noticed a stalling of your progress?
i estimate i am about 3 or 4 lbs away from my goal weight but i'm still training quite hard with a lot of volume right now and i suspect i am carrying around a lot of water weight. i appear to be leaner but the number on the scale has barely budged in the last several weeks despite eating at what should be a deficit - i cannot tell if this is due to the water weight/inflammation/glycogen storage from heavy training masking any actual loss (that's what i'd like to tell myself) or if i'm actually not getting anywhere.
yes, i do measure everything and i use a powermeter on my workouts to track kj. BMR set to 1500 cal/day @ 145lb - maybe this is too high. aiming for a 300-500 deficit every day so ~1lb/wk
for those of y'all who are already fairly lean but trying to get to "peak leanness" for an event, as you approach your goal weight have you noticed a stalling of your progress?
i estimate i am about 3 or 4 lbs away from my goal weight but i'm still training quite hard with a lot of volume right now and i suspect i am carrying around a lot of water weight. i appear to be leaner but the number on the scale has barely budged in the last several weeks despite eating at what should be a deficit - i cannot tell if this is due to the water weight/inflammation/glycogen storage from heavy training masking any actual loss (that's what i'd like to tell myself) or if i'm actually not getting anywhere.
yes, i do measure everything and i use a powermeter on my workouts to track kj. BMR set to 1500 cal/day @ 145lb - maybe this is too high. aiming for a 300-500 deficit every day so ~1lb/wk