This is a great thread! I'm gonna do a "test run" next week to see how my body reacts. I never had good pre-contest info back in the 80's when I was competing. I can get down to 5% BF (about where I am now) but have trouble getting below that (but do!). I plan on competing next year in the over 50 class.

I'm gonna try mikeXXL's diet outline along with water-load/deplete. Then I'll take some "before" pics. In my "hurry" to lose BF, I dropped about 20-25 lbs, about 15 of that was muscle! But I know how to get that back and muscle memory has been real good to me

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