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Originally Posted by Renton555
I think training purely for body comp can be really frustrating and demotivating for natties because of how slow this all is. Even if everything is dialed in perfect, you're just not gonna notice results in short time spans.
That at least goes for muscle hypertrophy. Leanness we have a bit more control over. If you want to get lean you're probably going to need to log your calories and macros a bit more extensively than binary values for beer and sardines.
Yeah, I know this is all true. I just like to lament. The sardine tracking is a semi-troll for Rexx, and the booze is more just to keep me honest about how much I am drinking and put it top of mind a little.
I think what is really happening here is my old program was just unbalanced and balancing it out means both positive and negative comparative results. I was hitting upper body so much harder, and even though it was a body part split still getting more than once per week frequency there with the overlap. The new, higher frequency is less overall volume and maybe nearly equal frequency for some groups. Meanwhile, others are getting more--especially legs. My calves are responding, my hamstrings and glutes as well, and my quads are probably about the same. The rest of the eyeball/frustration is mostly a function of how much water I am retaining day to day I think, but I do think my triceps, lower traps and biceps are smaller, lats might be bigger.
I'm going to stick with it for another month or so and then if I don't like it try a push/pull/legs or something else.