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When The Last 6 Weeks Go Wrong...

This is bringing painful memories back of my first prep (although I had no coach), from 7 weeks out I was doing 2 hours cardio a day and eating about 40g's of protein 8 times a day every 2 hours so averaging 1,200 - 1,400 cals a day. Somehow I wasn't as depleted as he was, maybe because I didn't look as good as he did at 6 weeks out, but can relate to the tunnel vision and brain like mush feeling, rebounded badly and put on about 3 stone in 2 months!

After I recovered mentally and established a healthy relationship with food I educated myself as much as possible anecdotally through trial and error and utilising the vast amount of information that's available for free (scientific based, articles, prep logs and from bodybuliding guru's). I'm certainly not an expert and still continuously learning but prep is like a breeze now in comparison, last prep I didn't have any form of post contest binge and only put on 7 kilo between stage weight and my peak in the off season, I don't exclude any foods from my diet (minus cutting out a couple of things the last week) and I'm prepping at the moment and on course to be the leanest I've been on stage.
 
if someone looked average and did themselves I get it, I wasn't trying to sound like a know all.. but the guy was in decent nick with muscle.....so he must have been at least mildly aware.... even a tiny bit....
 
Call bullshit on that, would have to eat no protein and take stupid doses of t3 with no aas to fuck uk that bad.

Even on 1200kcal of all protein and some naps your not losing tissue like that
 
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noel said:
if someone looked average and did themselves I get it, I wasn't trying to sound like a know all.. but the guy was in decent nick with muscle.....so he must have been at least mildly aware.... even a tiny bit....
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For me it was because it was my first prep and I left myself far too much to do, I had a typical approach of picking a show 16 weeks out and underestimating how much bodyfat I had to lose. At 7 weeks out I didn't look anywhere near ready, panicked and resorted to 2 hours cardio and eating virtually protein only (don't really know why I convinced myself that would be the best thing to do but it seems quite common so I must have read it somewhere). In hindsight I should have picked a later show, tracked my calories and weight loss and stuck to a plan, instead because I'd planned to do that show and told people that is what I was going to do, I convinced myself the best approach would be to maximise what I could do with the time remaining hence the stupidly low calories and excessive cardio.
 
I lose tissue and size, I don't look less ripped in my end pic than my first though.... has to be a wind up or moody pics unless the guy was like 90kg and wanted to compete in u60kgs or something
 
smallfry said:
Call bullshit on that, would have to eat no protein and take stupid doses of t3 with no aas to fuck uk that bad.

Even on 1200kcal of all protein and some naps your not losing tissue like that
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I'm inclined to agree based on my own experience, I didn't look anywhere near as depleted as he did after doing it for 7 weeks and had no drug use.
 
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