Find a good bodybuilding trainer (one that deals with natties). My trainer increased my calories, and I dropped 25 net pounds (he had me creatine load so I gained some muscle from that) and got stronger. And I was stuffed the whole time, with my five meals a day.
It took me months for my training to get back to normal on keto. I'm not a fan.
I don't buy that. Last Summer, I dropped 25 pounds, and was doing 8-12 reps with 400-500 pounds on Hammer Strength equipment for all of most of my exercises like it was nothing. And this was with no PED's, just OTC stuff. Unfortunately for me, I've not been able to keep with the diet plan I was on. It wasn't because it wasn't enough calories. I was on such a mass of fibrous foods that I couldn't get hungry. But I got sick of eating the same meals at the same time of day, for six months.
Bullshit. When I was in college, my deadlift was in the top 20 in the US at my weight class. I've powerlifted many years. At the end of the day, powerlifters say they need all of that junk food for extra power, and it's a myth. I remember, when I cut out the junk food, and ate clean, it was only a positive impact on my training. I had more energy because I was eating right. And I started dropping water weight and fat.
There shouldn't be an immediate drop off in strength, it's more of a slow decline due to calorie deficit.
That's funny. I didn't want to derail the weight loss thread with my bullshit strength loss.
I don't know that a conversation on keto is a derail. I bet if Brahma posted his calorie and macro count before and after, he's made too drastic a change. When I used to do keto, I didn't lose strength. I just had to cut my training volume, because I had no energy (because my body wasn't yet efficient at metabolizing fat as energy). If I was repping with 450 for squats, maybe instead of getting seven, I was only getting five. I never saw anything more than a rep loss from going to keto. But I'd feel like shit for two to three weeks until I could use fat for energy.
well there's a simultaneous discussion about keto that is ongoing in the other thread. It's not the first time keto has been discussed either
No offense, but I really don't care about your hammer strength lol. I've gone from 222 to 208 in the last 5 weeks and I can tell you there's a drop off even at my weight, so I can't even imagine Brahma's age and weight factoring into this right now.
Of course you are going to lose strength if you are dropping three pounds a week. That's too much. My trainer didn't want me losing more than 1.5 pounds a week. Unless you are on PED's, you can't drop that fast without losing muscle.
