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Probably a good idea and something I should work on.
To see if it's still relatively easy for me to lose weight. To see where I lose that weight from. To see if it positively effects some health numbers. To make distance running easier.
Yes. For much of my 20s, I was strictly endurance training with no lifting, and I'm not going back to that.
I'm not deep into a cut and going to bed hungry, but sleep quality has gotten worse.
Bodyweight/calisthenics exercises have certainly gotten easier.
Unchanged.
Not to be too vain, but I looked pretty awesome at 215. I'm far more defined now, but feel too skinny (although I recognize I'm not, and I'm still too heavy for comfortably completing a marathon or longer race).
hey thanks for the answer, im not too active here atm. It seems to me you are balancing multiple goals and identities with your fitness regiment:
it is very hard to balance all these goals simultaneously. I had similar issues of balancing different goals (BJJ instead of running). To me, most helpful has been the insight, that due to the memory effect, you are free to regain most of your old gains quickly if you train accordingly. This allows you to prioritize one goal over others with a "good concience" in the mid term. For example: once I let go of some "must-have" lifts and rep ranges (hello bench press 3-6 reps) and embraced hypertrophy training fully, my looks really improved while aches injuries went down
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