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Originally Posted by ebase131
Yeah man, but gaining 4 pounds of solid muscle while losing all that fat poundage is a LOT aint it? I wasn't a scrawny kid by any means when I started, so it's not like all I gained was 4 pounds, I lost a lot of fat pounds while putting on a lot of strength. I was asking my friend about that, if I should be putting on more weight, but he said I was getting a LOT stronger really fast so I was just losing fat weight.
So cutting sort of happens while lifting normally?
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Cutting, as I understand it, is when your body is working on a slight caloric deficit - not starvation by any means, but you're asking it to use more calories than you're putting into it. Because of this it's important not to overdo it or else you can burn out, overtrain, etc. Basically just work out a diet that provides strong numbers in your macros and listen to what Eric said -
"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 either - although I did have success with a cutting cycle last fall to drop fat for wrestling - but those two pieces together were what worked really well for me. I used some supplementation (caffeine) but it was by no means necessary, only helpful.
Good luck.