Reducing calorie intake makes it harder to grow both bigger and stronger.
Not working out for a couple of weeks will stall strength and even set it back a little. It's called use it or lose it. Lucky the body is pretty efficient and won't instantly drop strength or size after just a week. Many times a week off is the best thing for you, but 2-3 weeks is pushing it though and you start running into detraining.
Yeah i love my milk but i am just running into other complications with it so i just took that out. However i did up my intake of other foods though to try and make up for the milk calories. Still i got a lotttt of calories from my milk.
Now that i look back on it, it really was not smart to take the 3 weeks off. But in those 3 weeks i would do chinups and weighted pushups, not consistent but on random days, and those 3 weeks consisted of a lot of soccer.
Reason i took it off, now correct me if i thought wrong, but i honestly was not gaining strength. I was losing it, i had progressed so well all summer up until like early August, then i started losing strength in my bench and upper body, and it started tolling on my lower body too. My front squats were getting weak. Is it possible to lose strength? I thought i was overtraining too much, and that week off would have been good, but then i ran into a bunch of other troubles with family etc and it turned into 2 weeks, and third week visiting cousins, staying over and shit like that.
Other question too Ghetto, i did my workouts last week after 3 weeks off. My first workout was deadlift day, and it seems my deadlift did not lose strength at all. In fact i gained a little strength, even after 3 weeks. But my bench day, i lost strength. Why is it my deadlifts are good but my bench isn't? I haven't been able to test my squats, but i would assume they went down as well.
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mad strength loss for a month or two now.
