in layman terms, the body's 'balance' between the decomposition of muscle mass, and recomposition. building and disassembling. both processes exist all the time, generally being associated with testosterone being the main hormone for anabolic purposes, and cortisol, glucagon and adrenaline for catabolic purposes.

as you deficit, the gradient of those hormones exceed that of the testosterone. that's why str training is best while deficiting as to maximize test production and "maintain the balance", or at least minimize the gap.

meaning lean gains? deficit + strength = lean gains? Do you intentionally mindfuck me? Do you enjoy this?

has nothing to do with lean gains?

it was clear if you used your short term memory well ;-)

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bear with my bad use of brain for a now yo...

Why would you deficit while strength training? Is it something you'd do even if you're not cutting?

he's strength training while in deficit to increase testosterone which "counteracts" the catabolic (muscle-breaking, essentially) hormones such as adrenaline, cortisol and glucagon, minimising muscle and strength loss

This post was edited by Ocen on Mar 30 2012 12:20pm

Oh, I see. Beautiful, thank you both.

the 2nd reason is that low rep range has very minimal microtears which occur in high rep hypertrophy, and those tears need a caloric surplus to be attended to properly. since deficiting doesn't leave much room for muscle tear repair procedures, a hypertrophy routine is not recommended during cutting phases as it increases the catabolic gradient from having needed to repair those microtears with literally no macronutrients available, hence the body breaks down even more muscle mass in order to restore the very muscle that was torn during the workouts.

Oh, that's critical... my routine is in the 10-12 rep range...

So I shouldn't caloric deficit at this time?

go str route if you wanna cut.