Personally I think you need to get your goals in a more realistic perspective . You want to loose 10+ pounds of fat and put 30 pounds of muscle on in one cycle . That is unrealistic (but possible depending on genetics)
Your currently sitting at 160 pounds and 15% bf at 5'10", so you don't have a lot of LBM to begin with. If you got down to 10% bf then that would prob put you at 150-145 pounds .. You want to get to 180 and stay at 10% bf ,, that means 30+ pounds of pure LBM gain . That's a ton for one cycle .
And 'bulking' and 'cutting' to that level at the SAME time is very difficult or impossible. If you want to bulk to 180 without gaining any more fat then the 15% your at, go for it, that is realistic . Then you can cut after that ,, but don't try to do too much in one cycle , focus on ONE most important goal
Lets get something straight right off the bat. I'm not going to predict (who can) or try to come up with a number of pounds of LMM you can or will gain here. But we should all know what the realistic possibility is and is not.
Depending on age and total length of time yrs training as well as number cycles will have a lot to say about the possible total gain at the lowest BF% during this next cycle. I have seen with my eyes and have experienced some of and researched how much weight a man can put on IN ONE YEAR. not one cycle. This is a year and he can be on and off cycle during the year, doesn't matter.
A man early on young and newbie to training can gain as much as 20 maybe 25 lbs LMM. Now all I am talking about is LEAN MUCLE MASS. As the man gets fit and he increases in sixe and maturity from training the returns start to slow. Diminishing returns so to speak. Pont when I stated at age 29-30 as a skinny ectomorph I gained 20 lbs my first year but all wasn't muscle. BF% was 12 % aprox.So I could have done better as a young man can do with diet and training proper and AAS. So in the beginning 20-25lbs mostly LMM.
Lets look at the pro's when Lee Haney was training for t his last 2-3 Olympia's he gained after diet for show prep 3-4 lbs So what's that a pound or two (2) a YEAR of REAL LEAN MUSCLE MASS. That's what we all are trying to do as well as look fuller and bigger with and without cloths.
Now you want to do a cycle and get to 180lbs at 10% BF . This as you are being told is near impossible. It is impossible. Oh you can and might get to 180lbs no doubt but not at 10%. That will take a year or more. Remember and here's where your at. 160lbs 15% so what's your LMM weight well
myself but lets say 145 at 10-11% Like Roush said and then put on, 30 plus pounds of hard n Lean pure muscle mass. Nope. What you can figure maybe ( I think) 7-10lbs of LEAM MUSCLE MASS. Now you are at 155 to 160. But put you at 12% BF and you might have your 175-180. The numbers work out IF YOU TRAIN N EAT and REST proper.
You see I am giving you the benefit of being able to gain 20 + pounds in a year. That is HUGE
This is a process that now that we do AAS it becomes one cycle after another climbing in LMM three months at a time, to really see the gains coming and then more time.
Keep in mind that there is always a water factor that accompanies the LMM surrounding , well just that, MORE MASS bigger area, thicker mass.
Always looing at the big picture as to what can you do gaining LMM in a year.
I hope this makes sense so you can look at this in a more realistic way with goals you can attain.
