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I'm pretty upset this week.  Earlier last week, I had gotten my BW down to 168 from 181, and still maintained strength.  Ankle got back to 90% late last week so i did some jogging and full court sprints and played 2-3 hours full court bball total.  Due to burning more kcals, I felt it was okay to up my kcal.  Little did I know, that I ended up gaining 8 lbs (probably a lot of water weight because i ate poorly) and losing strength.

So is it possible to be gaining strength while playing 2-3 times of bball per week?  Ultimately though, i must choose between becoming a better bball player or jumping as high as possible, and at 1st, my goal was to use vertical training to make me a better bball player, but i started to fall in love with vertical training.

Quote from: LBSS on February 20, 2013, 04:24:31 pm

how do you know you lost strength? how do you know you gained 8 pounds?

Well about 10 days ago, I was down to 168 lb not totally wet, but not dry either.  I was able to manage 305 x 2, and 310 x 1.  Today, i weighed in at 176, and could not do 295 x 2.  Granted, I am sore from intense cardio on monday, but still, it is kind of demoralizing that your hard work is waved.

relax. strength doesn't come or go that quickly. i failed on 330x1 last week after hitting it for rest-pause sets of three two weeks in a row, and hated myself a little for a couple of hours. but it was just a fluke.

no idea about your weight but based on the tiny amount of information you provided my wild guess is that the swing is part water retention, part you underestimating how many kcals you ate and overestimating how many you burned, and part weighing yourself in different states (say, one time in the morning after taking a piss but before eating anything and one time in the evening after eating two meals and not taking a shit).

if you want to compare weight over time, you have to measure in the same "state" each time, and on the same scale (or on scales that you know to be equally calibrated). for example, i weigh myself on the scale in my gym's locker room after working out in the evening. no idea what you mean by "wet" and "dry" but my guess is that you were weighing yourself in different states when you weighed in at 168 and 176.

I've gained 8

Quote from: UAcompression on February 20, 2013, 05:46:32 pm

I mean 8 lb's in 1 week is a nasty gain.

I've gained twice than that in one meal.

uh.

I think you'd be surprised by what a strict diet and heavy lifting will do for BF %'s. I read somewhere that lifting will burn more calories longer than cardio...plus you get strong. Win-win. The diet is all will-power.

I think you'd be surprised by what a strict diet and heavy lifting will do for BF %'s. I read somewhere that lifting will burn more calories longer than cardio...plus you get strong. Win-win. The diet is all will-power.

I don't think that is necessarily true, but the amount of calories it takes to build muscle will be more. so on a maintenance low fat diet, your body will use more body fat to make up for the energy demands to build muscle... I could be wrong though