(07-25-2014, 06:42 AM)Scott Stevenson Wrote: The more advanced you are, the less likely this is to happen. If you've not really trained all that hard or consistently and are far from reaching outstanding levels of strength and muscle size (relative to what's possible for you), then this can happen of course.
[Note I'm considering this in the course of a *simultaneously* losing fat and gaining muscle. Over the long haul, gaining a massive amount of muscle and then holding it when dropping fat, and repeating, will probably yield the best results, IMO. It certainly has been tested much more in the trenches - hundreds of thousands of bodybuilders - over the course of decades of training.]
-S
I've tried "recomping" several times in the past few years hoping I could make it work.....it hasn't.....so I believe wholeheartedly in what you're saying. I'm 35, a lifetime natural, and I don't really think there's any reasonable expectations that I can make huge strides in muscle mass from here on out. Sure, I might fight tooth & nail for an extra pound here & there, but at my size/experience/genetic level, there's really only one way of progressing in a significant way, and I'm not interested in pursuing that route. SO....it seems like for me that leanness is a fairly linear relationship with my bodyweight. "Recomping" SOUNDS great on paper, but like you said, it's not terribly practical with someone who has been training for some time.