TreborRevo
Level 5 Valued Member
So, I used to be in serious endurance condition (swimming. biking, soccer, martial arts) but have never lifted weights in my life.
30 years later I've managed to pack 100 lbs. of fat on my 5'8" frame @ 230 lbs.
So, I get a calorie thinger and it says cut to 1700 calories a day and I'll lose 2 lbs. a week. Well, I do that, and add KB swings. Had to start with 5 sets of 5 swings and started working up. I was also walking fast 30 minutes a day including a nice hill..
I start losing 5lbs a week.
I'm happy.
Then I see Pavel recently post one of Geoff's progressions and think I can do that.
So I went from doing 10 x 10 with a minute rest to 8 x 20 on the minute and start climbing the reps according to progression.
And my weight goes from 218.5 up to 223.5 in 4 days. I even lower my calories down to 1500. I actually don't get very hungry anymore. I'm up till 1 am laying in bed with my body running hot on the three work out days. Still my body weight barely inches down.
Finally, two weeks later being strict on the diet, I've gotten back to the 218.5.
My belt has gone down a notch. My wife assures me I'm losing weight, it must be muscle gain. But I'm thinking there is just no way I'm adding that much muscle.
I wasn't monitoring body fat % so I set that up on the scale, it "may" be going down, but too soon to tell.
I'm hoping the tribe here can tell me what's going on. Are my muscles just retaining water from the intense exercise? Is it packing on muscle? It seems impossible to be gaining or even maintaining weight on only 1500 calories while working out that intensely (for me).
30 years later I've managed to pack 100 lbs. of fat on my 5'8" frame @ 230 lbs.
So, I get a calorie thinger and it says cut to 1700 calories a day and I'll lose 2 lbs. a week. Well, I do that, and add KB swings. Had to start with 5 sets of 5 swings and started working up. I was also walking fast 30 minutes a day including a nice hill..
I start losing 5lbs a week.
I'm happy.
Then I see Pavel recently post one of Geoff's progressions and think I can do that.
So I went from doing 10 x 10 with a minute rest to 8 x 20 on the minute and start climbing the reps according to progression.
And my weight goes from 218.5 up to 223.5 in 4 days. I even lower my calories down to 1500. I actually don't get very hungry anymore. I'm up till 1 am laying in bed with my body running hot on the three work out days. Still my body weight barely inches down.
Finally, two weeks later being strict on the diet, I've gotten back to the 218.5.
My belt has gone down a notch. My wife assures me I'm losing weight, it must be muscle gain. But I'm thinking there is just no way I'm adding that much muscle.
I wasn't monitoring body fat % so I set that up on the scale, it "may" be going down, but too soon to tell.
I'm hoping the tribe here can tell me what's going on. Are my muscles just retaining water from the intense exercise? Is it packing on muscle? It seems impossible to be gaining or even maintaining weight on only 1500 calories while working out that intensely (for me).