How not to lose muscle while cutting?

johnnydanconia45 · 2018-12-29T22:20:43+00:00

You are almost always going to lose some muscle. The trick is to minimize it by being on point with your diet.

2fassy · 2018-12-29T22:31:43+00:00

For me what has worked is a high protein diet and tracking your calories. Try to be in the same calorie defecit each day. As well as this switch your routine to involve more volume/high rep training, making sure to have a proper mind muscle connection.

Difficult_Sentence · 2018-12-30T00:51:17+00:00

10-15% caloric deficit
1.8-2.2g/kg protein
Sufficient sleep, low stress
Reduce training volume marginally

sealift · 2018-12-30T01:50:12+00:00

Cutting slowly, eating right and at good times (digestion and fueling), cut down on alcohol, cut down volume attempt to up intensity and weight, understand thermodynamics (cals in/cals out). Your body will optimize at a certain leanness, if you're a little chunky you'll feel it. A good balance of strength and not being winded on stairs. Try and maintain this optimized state.

modern-day-hemingway · 2018-12-30T04:59:27+00:00

focus on maintaining your lifts and losing only 1-1.5 pounds/week depending on your body fat percentage. As you get leaner, the amount of weight you should lose per week should decrease (diminishing returns)

Vikingcel · 2018-12-29T23:27:58+00:00

Fasting

YasuotheChosenOne · 2018-12-30T11:39:53+00:00

Focus on strength. Reduce VOLUME significantly, maintain INTENSITY. How fast you lose weight doesn’t matter in my experience. In fact, i just fast when i cut. Fat melts off. Never lost any muscle.

Example Bulking 3000 cals - squat 3x5x225 Cutting 0-1000cals - squat 1x5x225

People make cutting seem so hard. Literally just starve and keep trying to get stronger.

TammaLlama · 2018-12-30T12:01:43+00:00

Just do exactly what you're doing now in a calorie deficit

Shittybillyall · 2018-12-30T00:44:44+00:00

By reading about proper nutrition and cutting protocol. 99% of the people here don't even lift.

zrobek · 2018-12-29T22:13:19+00:00

Keto

Or microbulking and microcutting

Title	How not to lose muscle while cutting?
Author	makemoneyfuck33
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Date	December 29, 2018 10:07 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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