[quote]mbdix wrote:
I might be a little slow here. When you were prepping for your last powerlifting meet, were you doing strongman training still? Making a 21lb cut is gonna suck and I can understand. But, you probably agree that those 1-2 times a week walking sessions didn’t do much to help in your cut? What I believe is a natural bodybuilder that has maybe bulked up some in weight, and wants to hold onto the muscle they have gained (or keep adding muscle) but add some conditioning to lose fat should add some of the things you do for strongman training (as conditioning work) instead of walking on a treadmill like pro bodybuilders do
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I was not doing any strongman training prepping for my powerlifting meet. I was purely training for powerlifting. I actually detailed the experience here
I explicitly did those 1-2 times of walking to aid in fat loss. I didn’t start walking until I hit a stall in fat loss. I started losing weight after I did that, so I kept it up. I don’t know if it worked, but the correlation was there, which is really all I care about at this point.
I personally would never advocate conditioning work (and especially strongman work) for fat loss. To me, the purpose of conditioning is to get better conditioned, and I eat and train to support that conditioning.