Originally Posted by
Archangel.
As for your Q yellow, I always pay attention to what you and coca cola have to say, as you 2 and I began our first 20 week blast almost at exactly the same time. I am currently on day 12 of 14 of my first DELOAD, so almost about to start my second reload. I noticed a fluctuation of 5 pounds during this deload, normally staying at the low end of that fluctuation. I'm not sure why because my cals stayed almost exactly the same bcause I followed Ron's rule of cutting Protein in half during deload, and replacing that with an equal amount of healthy carbs GRAM FOR GRAM. So that equals out to be the same overall cals. My fat intake stayed the same. What I've noticed is I've actually gotten LEANER during the deload, which is odd because normally upping the carbs tends to accumulate a little fat/water retention with me, especially over a 2 week period like this. My strength has actually increased a little during the deload, at least for the 12-15 rep range, as that's what he teaches to do while deloading. However, I am curious to see if my strength has increased or at least maintained when I go back to the lower RELOAD rep ranges in 2 days.
When you say you lost a bit of gain, did you mean size? Strength? Did you keep your overall cals the same, replacing protein with carbs gram for gram?
Also Yellow, do you have any progress pics? I'd love to see how you're doing. I'm gonna post some up here soon for Ron and everyone to check out. All the praise goes to that man and his STS system.
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