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Hi /fit/
Last year I did a 10 week cut and lost a little over 20kg. At the start of my cut my bench max was 85kg and squat 110kg. I hadn't been going to the gym regularly in a few years so I wasn't concerned with strength loss last year.
After my cut my bench had dropped to 75kg and squat to 90kg. During the 6 last weeks of my cut I didn't go the gym, just shit ton of cardio.
After about 6 months I got my strength back to the levels of about 5 years ago (105kg bench and 140kg squat)
I'm starting my cut again in a few weeks and wondered if anyone has statistics on how much strength is lost during cutting.
For stats im 27yo, 185cm and 105kg. After my cut last year i dropped from over 120kg to 96kg.
I will be doing the Built like a badass program through my 10week cut so that after the cut there will be a 2 week max test in squat, bench, pull-up reps and push-up reps. I will post statistics here if there's interest.
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My cutting program was made for a 60kg woman trying to lose 10kg so I went a little autistic with how much I ate. My cal intake was on average 1300kcal a day and I jogged for about 4000kcal a week. I have bite for bite statistics from my diet last year but it will need some work to transfer it to electronic form.
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One more bump
My diet during my cut:
Breakfast: quark, berries, oats shake
Snack: quark or cottage cheese and berries
1. Meal: 100g chicken breast, 300g veggies
Snack 2: egg whites
2. Meal: 100g chicken breast, 300g veggies and 2 rye bread
Some supplements in the morning. I noticed I had to salt on a lot of stuff since there was no salt in anything otherwise. After jogs I had a protein shake and I tweaked around the recipes a lot. Instead of chicken any low fat meat, went through all kinds of veggies the local store had to offer. Made my own protein bars to save money etc.
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No interest atm in here, but I will post results weekly when I start my cut.
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>>40204130
Losing 2kilos per week is too much and not healthy
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>>40204583
Probably true but I hadn't gone through a cut before and decided that being strict is better than risking not being able to go through with the diet. Now almost a year later I'm glad I was able to cut as much as I did since I had gotten into quite bad shape. Losing the weight eased a lot of knee and ankle pains and I'm able to jog again. In the beginning I was only able to do 1-2km jogs and at a really slow pace. I ran my first 10k in september in 55min and actually feel great.
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Also my point was lose as much as possible in 10 weeks and then revert slowly into a healthier diet. I was fully aware that I couldn't continue on with that harsh a diet for longer.
As a comparison when I served my military service in 2009 i lost 2kg a week for the first 7 weeks even though I ate as much as I could, so I argue that the weight isn't the key but what you eat when you cut. Would I have led a healthier cut if I had eaten enough pizzas to only cut 1kg a week?
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This is really interesting but I'm way to stoned to reply..
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