What should I do if I fail a whole week of Madcow? Last week

>>41772833
Which week you at, currently?

>>41773392

Last week was week 3. I've lost a little strength because I've been cutting for a month so what I failed at last week was weight I was previously able to do.

>>41773463
Bad news for you, anon, everything before week 4-6 is supposed to be light and is considered deload from the last cycle to recover, most people have to deload/reset between 12-15(super tops) weeks, you must be doing something wrong

>>41773563

Well yeah obviously, because I'm cutting and losing weight.

>>41773563
>>41773463
Yea, cutting is probably not the thing to do.

I'm on week three and have been cutting (500+ def) since I started. Today I noticed my top set of skwaats was grindy. Not good, considering this should be easy peasy.

Oh well, time to go back to maintenance or bulk. Nothing shall keep me from muh gains.

>>41773601

My squat is the only lift that has suffered so far. I was doing TM before I started cutting and thought maybe Madcow would be better for a cut. I think I'll repeat week 3 for my squats but keep going for the others.

>>41773601
>>41773595
People have tough times running Madcow on a bulk, to be short it was not designed to be done on a cut.

>>41773710

Are there any programs that were designed to be run on a cut? I feel like I would be failing even harder if I stayed with TM.

>>41773729
Yes there are, nothing that I can pointed out from the top of my head, but doing a simple Linear Periodization program can be good, you are not really going to building that much muscle anyways, so you should focus more on keeping it.

>>41774051

That's one reason why I figured Madcow would be better than TM on a cut, I feel like it has slightly more volume and isn't as aggressive(at least for the first month).

>>41772833

Here is what you do. Stop doing Madcow. It's a shit program.

>>41774093
Both programs are very aggressive and far from being simple, like I said those programs were made for people on a bulk, even on a bulk it is hard to recover from. Linear Periodization doesn't have to translate immediately into a peaking, which both are.

>>41774342

I understand but this isn't helpful unless you can give me a better program or a way to modify madcow for a cut.