You diet is the number one thing that will contribute to your recovery from the workouts. And it ain't just having enough protein to cover protein synthesis. I wouldn't agree with the common advice to just do the same thing you would normally do except on a calorie deficit (if you are on one). That is a recipe for disaster.

If you do the same amount of work, the same stress, on a calorie deficit as you would on a calorie surplus...you will just build up a recovery debt. It doesn't make any sense to me to tell people the only difference between them and their middle aged mom is the amount of carbs they should eat or something like that.

Training always has to fit the goals as does diet. I think some of this comes from the off-stated but decidedly non-sensical "diet is 80%" thing". How people come up with shit like that is beyond me. Your diet determines what you can do and recover from in order to meet your goals, progress, not get injured, etc...so in other words your training is in large part determined by your diet. Putting one as so much more 'important' than the other makes it sound like people can do any damn thing in the gym they want and just adjusting their calories will work it all out for them.

That is just a general opinion on the whole workout thing.

I know some may say, well, you take all these supplements to help with "recovery". Well, sups aint anabolic steroids. Steroids can both increase your work capacity AND recovery. Many supps that can help increase you work capacity a bit do nothing much to anything to increase your recovery. So it can kinda be the same thing..more work with less recovery capacity. There just ain't much other than food that can really determine recovery.

What I would suggest is strength maintenance combined with a couple of moderate volume/intensity sets to stimulate EPOC and then finishing off with supersets, trisets, tabatas, that kind of thing to get heart rate up. I'm no expert on cutting though. I can tell you from experience though that you want to fit your training to your dietary restrictions. Probably there are others who can explain this better than me.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.