Gal and NoOne
Great thread guys and I agree with pretty much everything here; thanks a lot for sharing this all. A few questions to Gal, however.
Why do you exercise with such high volume? If you already gave a reason for the huge volume that you do, I might have missed that. But I recall you saying you do like 40 sets for arms alone and also work out pretty much every day, right?
Especially since you say you are not trying to put on additional muscle mass, why such huge volume? I can see such volume being useful for burning additional calories, but you are already eating so few calories anyways.
Which brings me to my next question: Now you are 6 ft tall, 200+ lbs most of which is muscle, meaning your metabolic rate should be pretty high. On top of it all you are doing a lot of weight training. But when people ask what you typically eat, you outline a very low calorie eating plan. At the moment -and you say this has been so for the last 2 years at least- you aren't trying to lose much fat, right? You say you never go much above 8% BF or so and when you have to lose weight, it is a relatively small amount. Do I understand it correctly in that even when you are just trying to maintain, you eat very little carbs and very little fat?
If I misunderstood, can you give an example of what you would eat to just maintain a 5-6% BF, when you are not trying to lose fat. When I add up the numbers of what you normally eat to maintain, I am coming up with like 1300-1400 calories , which is way too low just to maintain (considering your muscle mass and activity levels). But again, maybe I misunderstood and those meals you mention are what you eat to lose fat, not to maintain. If I did, please share what it is that you typically eat to just maintain.
Thanks and everyone stay strong...
