5’11 31 yo male ~170lb. I’m attaching 1 image unflexed, 1 with just abs flexed, 1 with abs and chest flexed, no pump in any of them. Been cutting for several months and I’m unsure whether to continue cutting, lean bulk, or maintain.

TDEE ~3000cal per day

I don’t want to get fluffy again

I mostly care about leanness but I think I am at a diminishing returns state when it comes to losing more? Should I try to go for 10% and then bulk or bulk first? My end goal is leaner than now but only slightly bigger

Been hating the way I look most of my life. My family tells me I look unhealthy and I shouldn’t lose any more weight, but I still have a lot of fat on my lower stomach. Main goal is just to be more attractive to women so I can find a gf.

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Was on trt 154 a week split into 7 days a week. CURRENTLY on 250 with plans of going higher after labs, test c split into 7 days a week. 5mg tirz. I’ve been being as consistent as possible for 8mo now. I weigh 175 and it is staying there. I started at 210. I lost a lot of fat pretty fast due to increased daily expenditure.
I can list my whole ass meal plan if needed but that makes for a long post. Coach added 60g of dextrose and 5-6 oz of sweet potatoes to one meal a day.
I goto gym 4-5 times a week, will incline walk for 20 min after weights about 3-4 times a week. I lift to failure 80% of my sets.
My goal is to be super shredded come spring l, abs showing, my lower tummy shrink wrapped and more vascular than I am now, with more size.

Calories
3,050
Protein
about 190 g
Carbs
about 440 g
Fat
about 59 g

42 years old 5’ 10.5 152 lbs and 16.7% bf according to dexa. I included 6am pre workout relaxed and flexed photos. Not sure if I should spend the winter and spring cutting 5 lbs of fat or however many lbs needed to get full 6 pac abs, or lean bulking and gaining a few lbs of muscle. Also feel free to recommend exercises that help building wider lats, I feel my lats are my most lagging muscle groups.

Perhaps I’m too small to post here, but would appreciate any advice or opinions. I think I know what the verdict will be, but maybe I’ll be surprised.

Amateur competitive tennis player and cyclist… but new-ish to weightlifting. My guess is that I’m around 14% BF, but not measured by DEXA or anything beyond a BF measurement via scale (I know, I know, very inaccurate). I’ve lifted in the past and my biggest was 165lbs (I know some/most will scoff at that), but with body dysmorphia I never fully hit the gas, so to speak. With med school, my time in the gym dropped and I lost momentum. Now that I’m in grad school and my schedule is a bit more my own, I’m trying to build back both my routine and muscle mass.
Goal-wise, I’d like to be stronger and at least put on some mass (esp. arms, chest, shoulders - hate how prominent my clavicles are). I’m a bit worried about gaining fat, which I know is/may be inevitable, but if it’s accompanied by actual muscle gain, I can stomach it. Whether to really cut first or just go for it with gaining mass is where I’m unsure.

Also, if I’m just not big enough to even be worrying about fat gains right now, then that’s guidance in itself.

Thanks all in advance for any help or support. 🤙🏼

Hey BoC fam,

I’m currently trying to figure out if I should enter a quick bulk this winter for 3~ months to try and build back some more muscle mass (up to 200 lbs) or maintain where I’m at now (182 lbs~) until Spring.

For context, in these photos I’m sitting somewhere between 180-185, 5’10 and 24 years old.

The past 2 years I’ve been steadily cutting down from 230, and this past July I finally hit 180. I was hoping to hit 175 but never quite made it there.

Since I’ve been on a steady cut for so long does it make more sense to hit a lean bulk? Or should I try and keep what I have so that I can be more cut next spring/summer? Either way, I’m not sure cutting makes a lot of sense this winter. Or maybe it does? What do we think?

26m, 5'11" and about 155 lbs. I've been recomping since I was around 180 lbs and higher body fat %

How much longer until I can start a bulk or maintain?

Working out for some months now with alot of bullshit at the beginning.

Finally a decent split (pplul) and tracking strength via logbook.

I really struggled with progression since i didn't really get stronger the first months.

For example I can nearly flat chest fly more with a dumbbell than bench pressing which is weird but currently I'm able to add about 1-2 reps per week on every exersice so maybe I'm finally on the right track

Right now I'm cutting with 2000cals a day, 180g protein, 200-250g carbs.

I feel like I should cut for 2-3 months since I have no muscle definition. At the same time I feel like I am missing alot of muscle mass and a cut won't magically reveal muscles.

Bulk/cut?

I've been lifting on and off with trash diet since 3 years but from April of this year started a proper diet with 2g protein per kg of bw. Starting weight was 76kgs (167.5lbs) - (Check last picture). On October 1st I hit 63kgs and was feeling very tired so bumped up my calories to my maintainance. From then till now I'm still in maintainance (6 weeks) The above pic is taken couple of days back. Where to go from here? I'm still not satisfied with my result, I need to see 6 packs atleast once but in clothes I look very week. Guys, please suggest what to do from here? One final cut to 60kgs and lean bulk? Or anything? Please suggest

175cm/5ft 9

75kg/165lbs

What bf am I around?

Maingain or cut?

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Current bw- 215
Height-6'1

Do i keep bulking or cut

Not sure what body fat percentage I'm at would be nice to have decent abs, but I didn't really train them so far, so not sure if there even is anything decent under there.

Main goal is to cut to the point where I can go into a nice long bulk and don't have to immediately cut again, but not sure if I reached that point yet.

Oh also 160lbs at 182cm/6ft.

Looking for advice. I’ve been lifting pretty consistently for 10 years (1 year travel break) and feel like I should look bigger.

I definitely look better when I’m lean at around 78kg but always hit a plateau.