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What do bodybuilders do to minimize muscle loss when cutting?
by buescher 3y ago
What do bodybuilders do to minimize muscle loss when cutting?
- brigadier132 3y agoLift weights and eat a minimum of 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight. Also they limit their weight loss to 1% of bodyweight a week.
- doix 3y agoAnabolic steroids.
- rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 3y agoThe correct answer.
- smileysteve 3y agoTo a small degree, creatine supplementation will increase muscle health; and ensure you get your protein.
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- xeromal 3y agoMake your calories count. Whatever calories you do manage to ingest are low carb, high protein, high vitamin. Think cod and brocolli with no butter.
- matwood 3y agoCuts are hard, but focus on nutrition (lots of protein) and heavy weight lower volume. The lower volume because on a cut you just don't have the energy to go crazy. The heavy weight keeps the body wanting to hang on to the muscle. But, unless steroids are involved, no one is getting stronger/bigger while on a cut.
- zemvpferreira 3y agoNot to nitpick but general guidance for bodybuilders seems to me to be going in the other direction these days: keep volume and reps relatively high and weights relatively low during a cut to provide a bigger anabolic counterbalance to the catabolic effect of cutting calories.
- brigadier132 3y ago> But, unless steroids are involved, no one is getting stronger/bigger while on a cut Not true, beginners and detrained athletes get bigger losing weight all the time. This is really a function of body fat %. The lower your bf % the harder it is to gain muscle while losing fat.
- matwood 3y agoI'm talking about an actual cut, not people simply losing weight because they cleaned up their diet and started lifting.
- Kirby64 3y agoThat is a cut. A cut is literally any calorie deficit from maintenance. If you lose weight by changing your diet (or energy expenditure while keeping diet the same) by definition you’re on a cut. Most people that deliberately do this would cut at 200-600kcal a day to be effective though, otherwise minor fluctuations make a, say, 100kcal deficit difficult to measure.