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submitted 3 months ago by Nednarb44@lemmy.world to c/fitness@lemmy.world

For context, I've been back at the gym now for about a year and I've taken nutrition and activity more seriously than ever before to challenge myself. Since after highschool I've always sat around 25-30% bodyfat (peaking a little higher) and I'm down to something around 15% now.

For the last about 7 lbs of this journey, I've had a lot more misses in the gym as far as did seta. Like last week I did for example 50 lbs for 8,8,7 then this week I had to drop down, since I could only do 5-6 at 50 lbs. It doesn't happen for every lift, but it's pretty consistently at least 1 lift per week. I know at some point, the game becomes just trying to preserve strength/muscle, but I figured that would be more of an issue if I get closer to 10% bf. Any tips or experience is greatly appreciated.

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[-] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Good questions. I estimate my maintenance to be 2500-2800 a day, and have been doing about 1800 for the last 7 months or so (since Thanksgiving). My macro split is something like 160 p, 50-55 f, and ~200 carbs. Until the last month or so, everything was good. I had continual strength gains and same endurance. I have days now when endurance is good, it's just that certain exercises seem to go down somewhat sporadically

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