Quote (RewtheBrave @ Jun 17 2016 10:01am)
It's funny you say that, because it's probably a nearly universal truth.
I'm generally caught up in performance goals (basketball), and my physique changes a LOT over a year. Usually as my pre-season starts, I'm about 170, probably 175 and fairly shredded. Then the season opens, and I'm already looking weaker even though I'm getting stronger and doing maintenance work in the gym. Generally my physique falls off a bit. By the end of the playoffs, I look rather ragged. Then I usually take a little break, start to look better without doing anything, and I get back into lifting. I gain quickly and start looking way bigger (195ish), and then as summer comes around I start to pull off extra weight.
And the thing is that at just about every point, I'm always thinking that I'll look better when I gain weight back on, or again when I pull it off. Because in my mind the other end of the spectrum is always better. Performance is always the focus but my head plays those tricks with me about my physique. Objectively speaking I definitely look better in the pre-season ... yet here I am, in the gaining phase of the off-season :lol:
Doesn't really work like that for me, just my old goals that I've hit are no longer what I want, and I didn't think I'd ever want to be bigger than I am right now, but now I've got new goals and I'm sure once I hit those ill still want to be even bigger.
E/ thing is though I almost never need to cut, put on 8-9kg this past 3 months and still look like I'm under 12%
This post was edited by turtol on Jun 17 2016 08:44pm