CUTTING

Why Cut?

Cutting is about losing body fat and regaining definition. There are a number of techniques for doing extreme cuts in a short period of time, such as the Keto diet, and Carb Cycling, but I’ll talk more about that in the advanced techniques section. For now all you need to know is that you need to be calorie deficient to cut. Cutting is done in cycles because you will need to spend a portion of your time bulking. The longer you spend cutting (the slower you do it) the less you will lose muscle during the process. While cutting it is inevitable that you will lose some muscle while in this calorie deficient state, but if done correctly you will lose much less muscle than you gained while bulking, and lose much more fat than you put on during your bulking phase.

 The Maths

 The maths of cutting is simple, you need to be below your maintenance level for calories (BMR). There are two ways in which you can achieve this calorie deficiency, and generally a combination is optimal. The first way is to simply eat less. The second way is to increase your BMR through strenuous activity, more specifically by doing Cardio. By doing cardio, you’re able to burn more calories in a day, and as soon as you drop the amount you’re eating, you’ll be able to begin using your fat stores as energy. The simple maths are that you should be shooting to be 500 calories deficient a day. 300 would be adequate for a slow cut. So for someone whose BMR as a bodybuilder is at 3000 calories, they should be having an intake of 2500 calories a day.