Im having trouble staying lean as of late and I swear it seems like my muscle is melting away. I used to train 2 days, rest one with moderate to heavy weight; I've switched that to very heavy low reps 1 day train, 2 days rest. I was doing ok, eating fairly clean but kind of stalemated around 205lb (I'm 6'2") and my strength seemed to fluctuate week to week which annoyed me. I figured I'd give the "to get big you got to eat big" philosophy a shot and for the first 2 weeks my gains (strength and what seemed to be muscle mass) were great, I was very pleased. But as time went on, it seems to be backfiring and am now carrying much higher body fat. Not to mention, every time I do a heavy hard workout, making sure I keep it low reps / low sets (no more then 6-7 sets but go to failure on the last 3 sets [granted low reps]), the next day I'm looking flat as a pancake, and even when I recover fully days later, it almost seems I'm loosing muscle mass.
I have a hard time believing I'm over training given 1day on 2days rest, low reps / low sets; but then again, maybe I'm taking too many sets to failure? (about last 3 sets). The other thing is it seems the eating big diet doesn't agree with me, it did for a short short time, but now it has caught up with me.
I avoid cardio because every time I do cardo, for 20min x3 times week, I just seem to loose mass. Though I'm open to trying cardio again.
Any suggestions (serious ones that is) would be appreciated.
