I've decided I'm done with my cut. It's kind of sad, as I was really enjoying cutting. It's cool to wake up every morning and look better than you did yesterday. That being said, my weight has been at maintenance for the last 3 weeks, and I'm not really interested in reducing my calories any further. At 6'0 180, I definitely don't need to lose any more weight either.
Here are my final cutting stats:
Start date: 4/30/2013
End date: 1/12/2014
Weight Lost: 39 pounds
5/3/1 Training Max Changes: Press (
-15), Bench (0), Squat (
+10), Deadlift (
+20)
I will be slowly bulking for at least the next 16 weeks and then I will re-evaluate. My plan for bulking will be the same as my plan for cutting in that I will only change what I eat for breakfast and nothing else. While cutting I had 2 scoops of whey + water for breakfast every morning. Starting today I will be having 2 scoops of whey + whole milk + peanut butter + banana every morning. That should give me a nice, but not outrageously high, caloric surplus.
I will also be switching back to the Boring But Big assistance for 531. I'm very excited about this, since I was only able to do 3 cycles of BBB before I started cutting. I'm expecting to see my press and bench shoot up as I think they could both benefit from more volume.
Time to get strong!