I don't know if this is way too much effort or if you've done it and it's buried somewhere in your journal(s), but I would love to see a summary graph of how your weight has fluctuated from the start of your training until now. You could also annotate whereabouts your local and life PRs for squats/jumps lie in relation to weight changes. Might be interesting.
It's not too much effort, it's just hard to compare apples and oranges. For exaple last year this time i had a 130kg front squat at a 80kg BW -- in season playing bball fairly hardcore .. so that was pretty good. I jumped quite well to boot. Then i got hurt soon after there. Since then i've managed to cut down to 77kg while maintaining a BS of 132.5kg for reps .. out of season, which is different from a FS of course but im lighter, though not in fit or playing bball and i may have been stronger/muscular a year ago when i was using the FS as my staple lift. I dont front squat anymore though after hurting my back sometime mid 2015..
I am basically around 15-20% bodyfat right now and could stand to lose another 5-7.5kg of dead weight to be at an "athletic" bodyfat of 10% or less. i just cant bring myself to commit to that sort of longggggggg depressing cut. I'd get skeletal cause i juts dont have the muscle mass to pull it off .. and i realise now the extra fat mass helps fill out my frame quite a lot! 75kg will have to do for now as a lower limit. If i can stay in that 77-75kg range while getting stronger and putting on some mass, it will help my athleticism and more importantly, motivation to keep training hard. Later down the track i can do some future cutting, maybe 2 cycles to go 75->72.5 and 72.5->70kg, but idk, that's not something i wanna think about right now, too depressing..
you know as maligned as adipose is .. and i hate it .. but i have to admit it helps my training a lot more than i previously thought. having that belt of adipose around my waist is protective of my spine.. i dont know how or why .. but it helps to keep my spine safe and it's when i start shedding those layers of fat that i run into problems with my back.. it's weird to say that but i prob cant be very strong being lean cause i run into back problems and cant get stronger
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I've been lighter than this before of course .. but htis time i'm not carb depleted .. which should count for something. I do see myself being about 2.7kg overfat still .. but the plan for the last 2kg is still a recomp not a straight up cut.
