FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

Thanks for the reply Scott. Days are spaced so that I have 1 day rest between loading days, rest between upper loading and Lower MR day, then I do MR days back to back.

Sure!

You'd not be the first person to say that after the two MR days in a row, he felt like he needed an entire day of "eating up" or at least a couple cheat meals.

It may well be diet related. Peri workout nutrition is as follows.

30g protein and 45 g carbs pre workout
50 g hbcd with 15g's EAAS and BCAAS intra
80 grams of carbs and 40 grams protein post workout
60 grams of carbs and 30 grams of protein 2nd meal post workout

Maybe it is as simple as adding in some carbohydrates perI workout?

That's a decent peri protocol, but if your kcal are not enough to keep you gaining, then this is where I'd focus nonetheless. If you can eat more in those post-WO meals, I'd do so, esp. after upper MR's. (You might even make that a day when you hit an AYCE buffet or what have you and eat roughly the same thing each time so you can meter this and increase it.The idea would be to keep this meal a very large one, but of a known factor you can vary by adding to and at least not eat less kcal on days your appetite might be low. In other words, it would not be an ad libitum meal, where the kcal would / could actually go down.)

Not gaining strength absolutely every session, but for the most part numbers are rising.

This is good, of course but you want the weight to move up as well. (IT's possible you're dropping body fat, so weight isn't the end all / be all of course, but I'd not expect that at 3yr into training and having done FT for a bit now.)

-S