Should You Change Your Workout Routine While Cutting?
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In this video I cover a common question if a workout plan should change when going from a bulk to a cut.
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There’s a lot of confusion with this topic because a lot of the advice out there is complete nonsense.
In almost all cases the workout plan you used to build muscle (on a caloric surplus) is the one you should use while you’re in a caloric deficit.
This assumes your workout plan was good in the first place and you’ve progressed with strength and muscle mass.
When I say workout plan I mean specific movements, those movements shouldn’t change frequently as I said in my previous video on « How Often Should You Change Your Workout »
You don’t want to re-enter that learning phase during a cut where hypertrophy isn’t optimal, also you don’t want to generate a ton of unnecessary DOMS (muscle soreness) because your ability to recover is already somewhat limited when you’re in a caloric deficit.
The thing that typically does change while you diet down and reduce calories is your total workout volume.
Volume will be going down slightly over the course of the diet as the calories go down. This is normal, and we often need more deloads.
Your body accumulates stress much faster in the « cutting » phase so it’s wise to keep an eye on fatigue and make sure you’re not overreaching.
Aside from that the workout plan and the exercises you’ve committed to are your best bet to maximize muscle mass retention.
This will allow you to use the Repeated Bout Effect to your advantage because you’ll be doing movements that are familiar to your body and minimize unnecessary soreness.
The goal of the workout plan is to ensure progressive tension overload over time, this means you should be getting stronger.
Now, during a fat loss phase it’s not realistic for most intermediate and advanced lifters to gain a lot o strength.
Typically the goal is to maintain as much strength as possible as long as possible.
From personal experience the first third of the diet isn’t so hard in terms of strength loss, but as you continue to move forward and push the calories lower and lower some loss in strength is expected.
Diet breaks help with this and allow us to recover and possible even rebuild some of the lean muscle tissue lost due to dieting.
Hope you guys enjoyed the video!
Let me know in the comments if you have any questions.
Talk soon, Mario
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