drtbear1967
Musclechemistry Board Certified Member
Competitors--especially natural individuals--let me give you some solid advice:
The post-contest period is not "complete" solely when youve got food macros on paper in a good spot.
Way too many times have I seen individuals--especially females, work food numbers up relatively quickly, put a bit of body fat on and think all is kosher, immediately go into another deficit and just hit wall after wall, and get extremely discouraged by it.
Ladies and gents, what you need to know is that all physiological and psychology systems need to be in a homeostatic spot to ensure a responsive, lipolysis apt, muscle retaining body, and some of these systems take more time than metabolic rate to reset; hormonal, neurological, even mental systems take varying amounts of time to level out, depending on a host of intrinsic and extrinsic variables, and anecdotally it seems in my experience that once you allow these systems to start resetting they do NOT want to go back to where they were for some time (i.e. why intermittent diet breaks seem to be effective in the same individual during their dieting phase).
When you come out of a deficit, the goal SHOULD NOT be to race to raise metabolism as quickly as possible to enter another prep or deficit, your sites should be on becoming a fully functioning human being again.
Nick Tong
The post-contest period is not "complete" solely when youve got food macros on paper in a good spot.
Way too many times have I seen individuals--especially females, work food numbers up relatively quickly, put a bit of body fat on and think all is kosher, immediately go into another deficit and just hit wall after wall, and get extremely discouraged by it.
Ladies and gents, what you need to know is that all physiological and psychology systems need to be in a homeostatic spot to ensure a responsive, lipolysis apt, muscle retaining body, and some of these systems take more time than metabolic rate to reset; hormonal, neurological, even mental systems take varying amounts of time to level out, depending on a host of intrinsic and extrinsic variables, and anecdotally it seems in my experience that once you allow these systems to start resetting they do NOT want to go back to where they were for some time (i.e. why intermittent diet breaks seem to be effective in the same individual during their dieting phase).
When you come out of a deficit, the goal SHOULD NOT be to race to raise metabolism as quickly as possible to enter another prep or deficit, your sites should be on becoming a fully functioning human being again.
Nick Tong
