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If you eat enough protein you don't lose the muscle (just the strength which can come back later). But building muscle needs calories and if you start from an initial high bodyfat level, it will go up not down while gaining strength/mass. Now you end up in a worse situation even if you do gain some muscle your overall bf% is higher and you're relatively weaker. No win.

The better formula is diet down to 10% (say). Maintain it a while (hard for me). Then mass gain patiently up to goal weight (80-85kg for me) while maintaining or not straying far from goal bodyfat (10%). Not sure I can get up to lean 85 or 90kg without drugs tho but I'm sure gna try get to a lean 80kg without them.

Most ppl don't understand that someone who is 10% at 70kg and someone else who is 10% at 90kg have only 2kg of fat separating them.  Diff between 10% at 70 and 100, yup only 3kg If you can afford to lose 5kg of fat, you're too heavy. I can afford to lose more than 5kg . For what it's worth to justify carrying an extra 5kg bodyfat, I would need to weigh 120kg at the same bf. That's basically what you guys are suggesting to be ok with having the same amount of bodyfat as someone who weighs 120kg. And yes I test my bodyfat ALL the time, i habitually pinch my skinfolds around my waist all the time and can tell when im getting fatter or leaner. That's the best bodyfat test I know of.

how cud i forget to mention. something in my jumpshot form clicked today, i was using a wrist cocked action which was giving me great accuracy (around 90%) .. so if this is a permenant improvement i might not be a complete shit bball player after all.

One thing i need to get right this year is tapering off the lifting/weight vest/rest of training closer to comp. last comp a year ago, i was completely fatigued and instead of being super athletic i was just okay. stupid weight vest. i wore it too much in hindsight. no one ever told me you're supposed to take it off when peaking for something? anyway this time i'll be conservative.

a suggestion, not a new one: stop thinking about your bodyweight at all. no more targets. focus on being the basketball player you want to be, and eating nutritious food, and let the rest flow from that.

I'm not thinking about bodyweight. 73kg corresponds to the leanest ive been in a while, nothing more nothign less. It's the bf% at 73kg i was/am referring to..

Quote from: maxent on April 02, 2017, 11:40:58 pm

So acknowledging that sports performance is just as much about how you think & perceive yourself and the game as it is about physical ability, i think i'd like to play at my heaviest bodyweight this time around, just for a change. I usually go super light and then get bodied around, sure it makes (warmup) dunking a piece of cake but it's not like that ever amounted to a game dunk. In reality, im more likely to dunk in-game when feeling powerful & agressive at a heavier bw.

My idea is to go on the creatine for the comp. Also ima be carbed up for once. But the thing which worries me right now is whether i have enough fitness. I havent been keeping up with the cardio .. and im not sure i have enough time to fix that. Sigh. It really sucks that i keep making the same mistake in preparing, just neglecting cardio. In hindsight i shud really be devoting an entire training block to building up my conditioning to a high level off-season, and hten maintaining that year-round. But ive never been strong enough or athletic enough to warrant changing focus away from those things towards improved conditioning.

Maybe a leanish morning weight of 77.5kg which equates to 80kg game time would be a good place to aim for by day 13?

Even moreso in a game like basketball, which is about skill. The best way to get your fitness up is by playing as many basketball games as you can preferably organised games, but even pick up is better than just going on a treadmill or whatever for cardio.

ideally it would be both games + practice + pickup + cardio. but season ended 2 wks ago in my league and ive been lucky to get a game last wk but not sure if i will this one and next. will try to arrange 1v1 against some good players, maybe even 1v2; 21 games, that will help fitness. failing that it has to come from the treadmill and sprint intevals etc :/

BW: 78.2kg (87.4kg w/ vest)
Activity:

Gna try rest today but hopefully I can swing a game to play tmr. Plus lifting. The sprints induced leg (mainly quads) soreness finally seems to have subsided, nice.

BW: 79.9kg

so i gained 7kg in 7 days. Im a disgrace. lol

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BP 1x90(LPR), 6x77.5(LPR), 5x76, 6x70
Chinup 3x6xbw

BW: 78.2kg

Why are my abs so sore today though. Dunking / sprinting? I also did some bounds just to see if i could do them painfree and I could. Interesting.. !