Cutting Weight, Then Smart Bulking
Follow on Facebook at www.facebook.com for more information. Second video. First was muted, and I don’t feel like arguing that I gave full sound credit to the artists. Anyway, I’ll put a more appropriate description in later when I have more time. Basics: 1) Nutrition: When cutting weight, the hardest part is keeping muscle when losing all that fat. An easy solution is a simple one: don’t gain too much fat to begin with. Eating slightly more than you burn off is just as effective as eating 4000 calories more than you burn off when it comes to gaining muscle. Also, if you are trying to cut and think your workout is solid but still can’t lose weight, the problem is — 9 times out of 10 — your diet. Write down an average day. If you usually have one doughnut a week and one pizza a week (even on separate days), add them both in to your “average day.” Better safe than sorry. 2) Lifting: To burn more fat, stick to compound lifts (lifts that involve more than one joint; no, preacher curls don’t count). I mean squats, power cleans, power snatches (feel free to giggle at the word “snatch”), pullups, etc. To build more muscle, think like a power lifter; use and abuse deadlift, bench press, squats, pullups, and pretty much anything that uses more than 10 pound dumbbells. And if you can’t bench your own bodyweight, don’t worry about isolation lifts (cable crossovers, for example). Obviously, if you way over 250 pounds, this rule can be bent a bit, but only so far. You don’t really …