So you need to burn as little calories as possible to maintain muscle mass/enerhy/strength?

Makes no sense to me :O.

This post was edited by GSXR on Aug 19 2012 08:55pm

I believe this is the key factor.
you need to maintain heaviest loads to preserve muscle mass most efficiently

calories should remain in the ~20% deficit area...

Oak,
what would you suggest to someone in that situation? Have you personally experienced muscle loss/strength loss?
Do you not try to add weight each week to your workout for as long as possible?
Even if you progress in a rep range of 12-15 that is still a strength gain. Along with it being a safer rep range when you are in a deficit.

The point of weight training while you are in a deficit is to hold onto your muscle so it doesn't get pissed away.


What specific load would you recommend for someone who doesn't want to lose muscle? Would you recommend the same load for two different people?


I'd like to see studies that show this. Have you personally experienced it being impossible?
Impossible to increase or decrease in width?


So you are not worried about someones safety doing heavy reps during a deficit? What are your lifting numbers again?
Are you assuming someone would train all movements in a 12-15 rep range? What % of their personal best would they be using while doing the 12-15 reps? Do they hit failure or just stop when they get to 12-15?
How far into their deficit would a maximal effort (Repetitions 12-15) make their body catabolic?

I swear you fawking guys crack me up...

Obviously you prioritize towards strength training when cutting however to say that training hypertrophy will by default yield muscle loss and is useless would be the equivalency of saying that Lightman isn't a pretentious cocksucker.

The end all be all fact of that matter is simple, Lightman knows everything he does about training for reading other people's research and is a textbook parrot.

No 2 people are the same which is why you need to vary their programs, which is also why Raynor is a mongoloid.

ILY

raynor always recommends drop sets during a cut, which he explains maintains mass while increasing volume. is that wrong, or is that another alternative to strength?

Not being able to edit posts is gay.

Anyhow just to expand on this further...

The odds that your body goes catabolic based on your training alone are as great as you are to be mauled by a polar bear.

Also pure strength training for someone the further they go into their deficit gets really dangerous.

There's a very good reason bodybuilders keep hypertrophy in their routines while on deficit and it's clearly not to look depleted and sustain muscle loss pre-contest.

Thread is full of win

/Boxa'd