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I wanna take some progression pics. I'm gonna stick em down next to body fat levels and measurements each week.
When is the best time to do this? On a carb-up day or midweek during MANS?

In my personal experience if you want the most cut and definition, you take pictures when you have NOT been eating carbs for a few days, since you will retain less water. Your muscles might not be as big though, so if you want maximum size, then do it during your carb-up instead. Whichever is more important to you and your ideal level of progress I suppose.

Cheers! I think I'll take too sets of pics - definition and muscle size.

I'm on a carb atm, so off to take sum pics

lburnham wrote:Cheers! I think I'll take too sets of pics - definition and muscle size.

I really like my stats and photos the day after a carb-up. Body fat percentage appears to go down, muscles appear bigger & fuller. The downside is the absolute weight on the scale goes way up too.

lburnham wrote:I wanna take some progression pics. I'm gonna stick em down next to body fat levels and measurements each week.
When is the best time to do this? On a carb-up day or midweek during MANS?

But then again, you don't really know if it's a progression, since a huge variable in the equation is how carbed-up and how much water you drank. Midweek isn't as ego-boosting, but it'll give you a better idea.