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When to reverse diet or maintenance after substantial weightloss

I am down 110 lbs since January. I track my food, hit 200-225 grams of protein daily, strength train 3x a week, and hit my goal of 8,500 steps daily (though it’s oftentimes more). I use Carbon Diet Coach to track calories so it gives me new estimates each week. I’m currently eating 2900 calories a day and losing 2-3 lbs a week. After 9 months of this, should I go into a short maintenance phase or continue with weight loss? For context I’m 6’2 at 284 lbs. I don’t really have a goal weight but would like to get in the 15-18% body fat range, which seems to be the healthy range for males. Thanks and love your podcast!

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How long can you progressively overload in one program?

I'm on week 3 of your 12-week PPL program (thank you!!) and have a question about progressive overload cycles & programming. One thing I've always been unclear about with progressive overload is how long you are supposed to progressively overload, ie, what do you do at the end of a program, like your 12-week one? Do you "start over"? How do you reset your body so that when you do start a new program, you are ready to progressively overload again? Is that the role the "deload" week is playing?

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Short workouts - fewer sets of more exercises or fewer exercises?

I occasionally only have a half hour in the gym and can’t do the full workout I had planned. On those days, is it better to cut out some exercises or do fewer sets of all?

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Travel

What would you suggest to help with staying on track with sleep and recovery/dealing with jet lag when traveling. I live in two places, I spend 4-5 weeks in Maine, then one week in Oregon and back again. I have a gym in both locations and my routine is solid except that I find myself dragging for the week out West and then the first week I’m back East. Leaving me with 3-4 weeks of feeling great and 2 weeks feeling like garbage! Please help

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Calisthenics

I’m aware that calisthenics is a good form of exercise and have been getting a lot of traction as of recently. So I’d like to know your thoughts on the benefits of calisthenics and how would we implement calisthenics movements into our workout plans?