![]() ![]() So, the answer is rather obvious now, the most important thing for maintaining muscle mass, is maintaining STRENGTH (you can ever get stronger on a cut!!). So then, how do we maintain the most muscle? Well, when you use light weights and high reps, you're basically telling the muscles you don't need them because you're not recruiting all the muscle fibres and motor units that you could be. It's been shown in hundreds of studies this is not true in any way, you can not "tone" muscle, you can either make it bigger or smaller (I'm sure you already know this but I'm trying to address a general audience). This is one of the biggest fitness myths in the history of the industry. How is this achieved? Well, in traditional bro science, people will tell you to do high reps and high sets with lighter weights to "tone" the muscle. With that in mind, let's break down the goal of "cutting" quickly.įirst, you want to maintain as much mass as possible. This is a fact, if you are in caloric deficit, you can not put on muscle mass. ![]() Unless you are on some heavy hormones that is. Now, when you are cutting (from a diet perspective), you must understand that you will NOT gain muscle. While there aren't any black and white rules for separating the two, there are some important factors in these workouts that will greatly enhance your progress. Just like how you would use extra carbs for bulking, you use "cutting" workouts for losing weight. You can think of "cutting" or "bulking" workouts as additional supplements to your actual cutting or gaining phase. ![]()
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