Hi,
I'm relatively new at the forum, but not to training.
I'm just entering the second mesocycle of STS - and according to my bodyfat measuring scale, I'm slowly gaining fat and losing lean mass. Calipers and tape measure tend to agree. Scale averages steady as a rock.
Not what I wanted, need to shift about 10 pounds of fat, want to add lean mass and end at my current weight... so stead scale's fine by me, but losing lean and gaining fat is going the wrong way big time.
By the numbers, using BMR equations and a 1.5 activity factor, I should maintain at 2100 calories, and I'm eating about 1650 calories. Macros are decent, food is whole, sleep is good, recovery feels good, etc...
The quandary is, should I add calories in the hope of turning this around, or perhaps ignore the digital scale for now, or is this normal to drop a hair of lean mass in mesocycle 1 as it's an endurance focused thing, or am I all confused in general?
Part of me says to eat at maintenance and see what happens - part of me says stay steady as she goes....
Thoughts?
-Dorus
I'm relatively new at the forum, but not to training.
I'm just entering the second mesocycle of STS - and according to my bodyfat measuring scale, I'm slowly gaining fat and losing lean mass. Calipers and tape measure tend to agree. Scale averages steady as a rock.
Not what I wanted, need to shift about 10 pounds of fat, want to add lean mass and end at my current weight... so stead scale's fine by me, but losing lean and gaining fat is going the wrong way big time.
By the numbers, using BMR equations and a 1.5 activity factor, I should maintain at 2100 calories, and I'm eating about 1650 calories. Macros are decent, food is whole, sleep is good, recovery feels good, etc...
The quandary is, should I add calories in the hope of turning this around, or perhaps ignore the digital scale for now, or is this normal to drop a hair of lean mass in mesocycle 1 as it's an endurance focused thing, or am I all confused in general?
Part of me says to eat at maintenance and see what happens - part of me says stay steady as she goes....
Thoughts?
-Dorus