How to Get Stronger While Cutting
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December 12, 2024
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Thank you for this. I messed around with wicked progressions whilst cutting and it really ran me into the ground. Life sure is good when eating whatever you want and throwing pounds on the bar, but alas the perma-bulk has to end at sometime (lean and strong > fat and strong)
Lean, Strong, Natty: pick any two
This video is out of topic. It should be named "how to diet for fat loss)l". Waste of time.
It's unfathomable that someone on the internet in 2024 is talking about fat loss and carbs and doesn't mention ketosis one time. 40% from carbs? What is this the fucking food guide pyramid? lmao
"if you're a woman are you guaranteed to be fat"
holy shit this is full moron diet advice. your body doesn't "burn" energy. it's not a furnace. it's a chemical factory.
Thank you for this video ❤
quick question i feel like creatine is also playing a role in keeping me fluffy i take 10 grams a day should i reduce it to 5? im a powerlifter but i want to cut down a few kgs i got some fat i can cut and i think reducing creatine could help maybe? in general whats ur opinion on creatine and cutting thanks
Fuck this was good.
I’m not sure I agree with one point here—that there is no scenario where a 330lb person is only eating 1800 cal/ day. A sedentary person might not even burn 1800 cal per day. Cal in v cal out would suggest that could be a maintenance diet.
Of course if you’re easily gaining weight with very little food, fatigued and feel unwell; you may need to contact your physician and do a hormonal profile. Hypothyroidism which is very common will slow your metabolism as well as other less common conditions.
I thought you were also going to talk about training? How do you train while cutting do you train the same as when bulking?
It's insane the number of people online who insist that CICO doesn't apply to them and their body somehow violates basic thermodynamics but of course there are charlatan "influencers" who cater to and profit off of these people. Also I made the mistake of going too low on carbs, it worked for about three months but after that I started losing muscle while the fat loss started leveling out so now I keep the carbs at around 200g minimum and cuts are not to go longer than 12 weeks at a time. I also suggest getting your RMR clinically tested if you can, mine turned out to be about 300 cal/day higher than what the calculators predicted so my deficit was too aggressive and therefore even harder to stick to.
I started cutting 2 weeks ago , after doing the most crazy bulk I’ve done 4 ltrs of milk , donuts , brownies during and after my 6-7 meals a day I lost 22lb in a week felt ill to be honest , added a single fatty meal and it regulated it self. But now I’ve lost fat but my muscles look bigger and harder over night 😂 tearing trousers with my quads and calf’s 😂 think might be time for another bulk next week! Thanks to Sam sulek diet and I’m natty
I find counting calories by the week instead of daily works best for me . Carb cycling. Example if I ate 4000 calories today but my calorie intake should be 3000 it’s not the end of the world just make up for it the next day by eating only 2000 calories then the following day go back to your 3000 calories until you reach your weight loss/slim down goal . Then adjust your calorie intake for your new body weight/size to maintain said weight . It’s really not complicated the hardest part is actually doing it As far as not eating carbs, have to ask yourself is this healthy first of all and is this something I could do the rest of my life the answer is no absolutely not
Cutting is harder than it seems. The person who cut this video for example just straight up spoiled the secret, lol.
You eat meat, there's no cutting needed. IT's only because of overconsumption of carbs that this cycle has been made into a culture and necessity, if you eat the right food to begin with there's no phases of any bulking nor cutting required.
Perhaps some day more people will start to notice the obvious here.
I feel like my body is very weird, one day i ate about 4000 calories and gained about 2 lbs the next day, then I ate 5000 calories the next day and lost the same 2 lbs. this usually continues in a cycle where I gain and lose weight periodically while eating 4000-5000 calories a day. I always weigh my self in the morning when I make up as well. I’m about 160 lbs right now at 6’ and im trying to gain more weight, but I’m about 25% bodyfat so now I’m thinking I should cut to 12-15% and then bulk, would that be better?
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YOU FUCKER LMAOOOO, BRUH THAT TIMING HAHAHA
I have high carb protein diet right now. I bulked a little fast and tried to recomp, but to be honest even maintaining my weight I wasn’t getting stronger.
So I have doubts I’ll get stronger on this cut, I just want to keep my strength. I seem to only get stronger on bulk phase
This is why i love being a furniture mover for an occupation. I am constantly walking and routinely lifting heavy furniture, plus i have a pretty high metabolism. I can eat pretty much as much as i want of anything that i want without worrying about putting on any fat. Only downside is i struggle like a mfer to put on weight and mass.
I was suspicious of carbohydrates until I read an old physiology book from the early 1900s, which observed that muscles are coated in glycogen and use it up during anaerobic exercise and the body seeks to replenish the lost glycogen immediately after its use.
Matt Fraser, the crossfit champion, is also very open how after a workout or a competition he just drinks a soda and eats a snickers bar.
Excellent video, and thank you for sharing it. I feel i can totally relate on many levels with similar struggles. I very much appreciated watching this especially for the great tips in addition to all the other useful info being shared.
That low t example was great im 24 and have t levels of a 70-80 yearold and was considering trt but i have made great progress in a little over a year im at a 265bench, 400 squat and a 440 dl and i tought id be a better example to people staying natty. All my lifts are on this channel
I thought we were done with CICO -_-. Please educate yourselves on what a calorie is and what that means.
I don't consider plant based as "extreme eating" but what the majority does is extreme eating imo. But ofc any major change to ones diet is extreme considering what one was eating before. So if eating 6 pizzas a day exclusively, ofc it's also extreme only eating what is considered healthy.
I lift 5 hours a day 6 days a week but I eat like crap because it’s so hard for me to gain
The short answer is: oxandrolone.
Little Caesars delivers?
I don't know how others do it,but I've seen the best way for me to slim down and still eat some "cheat" food,is to be in my caloric deficit and every 7-14 days have cheat meals but don't go over maintenance
I don’t brush my teeth
Over the past 3 or so months, I've cut from 88kg – 80kg. And somehow I'm currently the strongest I've ever been.
Really it just comes down to the fact that I'm eating better (more protein), and training more consistently while cutting, because I don't want to lose muscle.
Did he ever managed to get Lean? Cause I'm looking at the videos and he kind of looks the same
Imagine your pitty part for 5 minutes is some people's life
Great video. Good looks 🤜
Coming from a cycling background I would do hard session on 100-120g/h of carbs and about 8-10g/kgbw during the day. I am applying the SAME principle for heavy lifting sessions and seeing way better results in physique and performance to regular bros that don’t carb up and fuel properly. Note I have always been around 6-10%body fat and muscular
You confuse BMR (basal metabolic rate) with TDEE (total daily energy expenditure). BMR + thermic effect of food + exercise + NEAT (non exercise activity thermogenesis) = TDEE.
TDEE – deficit = calories to aim for.
Is it a metric vs imperial measurement calculation mistake??
Most of the American content says 1gram per pound of body wt.
Im from Australia and the dietary guidelines say 1gram per kg of body wt.
I cant help but wonder if theres an error in the per pound or per kg of body wt.
Grams are used to measure protein requirements which is metric, so Id think using it with metric body wt like kg makes more sense. Just thought id mention it because its a big difference.
I cheat twice a week. I allow myself to go up to maintenance on the days I lift weight. Don't generally go that high. 24lb most so far. Annoyingly have still been losing muscle mass. Lifts improving slowly due to better neural connection muscle tissue employment nonsense
Still can't get into the brushing teeth habit. Can I use being homeless for years an a excuse.
Its the other way for me at the moment. I had a bad run during lockdown so I made a point of getting back into shape and loosing the excess. I went from about 220 225 to 190lb. I was using only kettlebells and kick boxing for that. Then I got a shoulder injury and started to run more but exercise less. I was on about 1200 calories a day, exercising twice a day five days a week and eating a lot of chicken and rice.
This year I started the strength training for a bit of a change. I'm back up to 210, which seems to be my walk about weight but what I notice these days is its harder to run. I lift three times a week and run on the days in-between. I can still do 3 miles easily but my times are slow. I'm honestly considering going back onto heavy cardio and getting my times down then returning to lifting.
Also it occurred to me on Friday, when I was so sore in the morning I had to shift my gym session to the afternoon after work, that maybe I should be eating more not less, since I wasn't doing pure cardio and resistance stuff. I used to fast until lunch time but now I go to the gym before work I'm famished by mid morning so I take peanutbutter and fruit in for breakky.
I dunno maybe I should be content being a fat alcoholic.
Tren in/calories out. The basics of thermosteroidynamics 😂
i'm about 185lb/85kg. bmr is around 2200 kcal. i eat 300g carbs before training sessions by eating low fat, high carb moderate protein meals. after training i do one or two high protein meals, low carb, low fat.
i may eat upto 450g carb a day depending how long i train, i do powerlifting so i could be in the gym for upto 4 hrs absolutely smashing my body. on weekends i rest and try to eat near maintenance, if not lower and do moderate amount of steps.
hoping to go from 86kg to 83kg over a couple months without it tanking my strength gains (i'm trying to put 20kg/45lb on my powerlifting total every month)
Bacon & Eggs by themselves is eating clean & ketogenic.
Im on a 400 calorie deficit, its my 4th week and im noticing strength loss in both my squat and bench sets, i eat 1 gram of protein per bodyweight and still eat carbs yet im losing strength, why?