
Originally Posted by
BCR
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?