Quote Originally Posted by chinamaniac View Post
Quote Originally Posted by BCR View Post

What is your end goal beyond winning your bet?

If you just want to be a healthier you and settle it around 250 and be healthy, then lifting in this way is irrelevant.

If you want to keep going and get in truly great shape, then I question that decision unless the soreness was so bad that it was that or nothing. It’s certainly better than nothing.

When you’re dropping weight as precipitously as you are, it is impossible to avoid dropping a ton of muscle in the process. Ime, lifting as heavy as possible with a max of 8 reps, and to failure on last set, spares muscle significantly when in a extreme calorie deficit. If you are taking this all the way, that decision to high rep and lower weight,will cost you six months to a year hard work just to get back what could have been saved on the way down.

I’d be curious if your trainer recommended that? And if he did, was it because he felt your soreness was going to cause you to abandon it all together?
End goal after the bet is to keep keep getting healthier.

Bottom line regarding soreness is when I train to 100% of my capabilities whether weights or cardio i get so sore that I don’t want to do it again the next day and this has caused me to quit many times in the past and I also messed up my calf muscled a few months ago overtraining

Ive modified this so I am getting a great workout, better form therefore I can train 7 days a week. Im still lifting enough weight to give me resistance im just not going overboard
Also to expand on this further, this was my idea and after watching the below video I feel that overtraining weights and cardio has been a factor in me skipping workouts in the past, I am still lifting enough to get a great workout and my cardio is consistent but I am not going to 100 million zillion % every day

My workouts have been more consistent since I started practicing this and I believe I have built up more endurance etc... Could all be in my head but it seems to be working

This explains a lot of it