You have a month, you will not lose muscle mass, unless you’re pushing the maximum amount your frame can hold. How fat did you get ‘bulking.’ I would go far more extreme if you want to even look like you go to the gym. The more extreme you get, the further the pendulum will swing in the other direction when you get home. We used to call this a ‘Prime.’ And you will find beyond a certain point every day you look far better, and bigger, by losing fat. Bodybuilding is about change. Drastic shifts are the way to escape mediocrity. There is no endeavor I can think of that people have set the bar lower in. There are many people who put in the time, often the effort, and are O.K. year after year to make no changes at all. It’s not their fault, I am not putting them down, but why go the gym at all?
You may be excellent and this vent is not about you. The advice you’ve been given, a 300-400 calorie deficit with an over the counter fat burner? How many pounds of fat would you guess you will drop? Just by crunching the numbers, not much. If you really do HIIT, not short LISS sessions, you will drop a few more. Noticeable tomthe causual eye? If your already 6% maybe. If you’re 12%, I don’t see the point in changing anything. Unless you treat like the weeks 6-2 before a show you just decided to jump in.
I am sure their are much better bodybuilders than me all over AM. But I have never run into someone on a vacation or the stage better conditioned. From spring break at 19 to now, 44. I have seen bigger bodybuilders, lots, better bodybuilders, probably all over this board. Conditioning is the great equalizer. We can all get our bodyfat down to virtual zero and the water is usually fat. Walking around in stage shape will shock people. Most will womder if you are real. They will have never seen anything like it. That’s a good feeling. And you will look 30 lbs heavier than you are. With 4 weeks I would do the following.
IF every day.
Two weight workouts (yeah, not DogCrapp, but hard, ) with a cardio session upon awakening.
Go to 1200 to 1600 calories. You will get flat. Measure everything. If you are totally burnt out, do a carb day. You only have 8 hours to eat.
Take whatever fits with your morals and ethics. Cardarine, Injectable Carnitine, Clen, Cytomel, Creatine (reload on vacation). It has to start with a C, that is the key. That’s just not true. Caffeine and......Combine with Yohimbe.
Frag 176. Mod 1-29/IPA. Boom dose before sleep. Make everybody standing next to you look grossly out of shape. Pinch their stomach fat and ask them what they are holding enough extra energy to feed a third world country for a year when there are no famines around the corner. Call them an ugly American and you will really enjoy your time off. I guarantee it.
Let’s get those troops home safely........we already did? No one tells me anything. Good luck, sir.
