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Originally Posted by Mihkel05
Yes. It is between 10-15% bodyfat. Virtually everyone recommends this. It is like suggesting a cyclical caloric intake to a random person by drinking an extra protein shake and eating a serving of carbs on workout days.
You are failing to understand that 10% is a "reasonably lean" measure in the context of discussing people who are literally starving and other stage lean athletes being predisposed to gaining bodyfat. You basically read the article, slather on your own predisposed reasoning without understanding what "lean" would mean in the context of what Lyle describes, proceed to ignore literally everything else he has written or do any actual research on your own then herp derp the same exact thing you did before.
I would say I found his logic unconvincing. Reading this article gave me no motivation to read anything else by Lyle ever again, true; "P-value stays the same for individuals regardless of weight"--ok, let's just ignore that. Dieted body is primed to regain fat--let's say "wait two weeks" and leave it at that. "10-15% is best" even though I'm not going to cite anything to show that and I just said it doesn't matter in terms of p-value--sure.
I mean the one thing he solidly demonstrates is that fat gain is *definitely much worse* after dieting which even he acknowledges has been anecdotally observed by everyone on earth before, "I still think you should do it."
And it all still leaves you saying that "Dieting down to 10% bodyfat then running a bulk-cut, bulk-cut, bulk-cut, etc. based on close monitoring to manage your body's drive to explosively rebuild fat stores (Lyle's actual recommendation)
without ever losing control of the process or giving up is...easier than a slow recomp and then just keeping the weight off." In fact you have equated disagreeing with that to disagreeing with "1+1=2". Maybe we just have different ideas of what "easy" means.