Muscle Memory???

**Olly** · 12-26-2014, 07:29 PM

Hey guys, happy holidays and all the rest, don't know if there's been a post on this already, but I've got a quick query on muscle memory. My last cycle was about three years ago (tren /test), during which time due to some personal shit I didn't step foot in a gym, ate crap, drank like a fish, lost most of my gains and packed on a lot of fat.

Recently I've got it together and have been on a hard natural cut using IF 20/4, HIIT fasted 3 pw, high rep lifting 2 pw and taking in 800-1200 clean calories a day. By all logic I should be shedding what muscle I have like crazy. However (call it a Christmas miracle), I've been seeing some explosive gains. In the last five weeks I've lost nearly five inches round my waist, but other than the first week when I dropped nearly a stone, the scales have barely moved. It seems every pound of fat lost is compensated by a pound of muscle gained and my strength is soaring.

I came across this across this Norwegian study on mice, explaining that long after a cycle is over, due to an increase in the number of muscle nuclei, you can still achieve results far superior to natural lifters (the mice who had been on cycle three months previous gained 30% extra body mass in six days when exercised, while their natural counterparts only gained 6%). Just wondering if you guys have had any experience of this and any advice on capitalizing on these gains while sticking with the cut?

***system admin*** · 12-28-2014, 12:50 PM

Your body seems to be going through a nice growth phase and things are working well for you right now. Keep it up and milk it for all its worth... It will NOT last long and you will plateau again. It IS typical for you to gain back very quickly if you have acquired some quality muscle from the past. Once you put this quality muscle on, it will be much easier for you to get it back to where it was. Glad to hear you are back and thank God you dont have to start all the way over