Do I Need to Cut First or Bulk?

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This will probably answer your questions better than I can.

When Your Cut Stalls

'Tis the cutting season. I’ve seen a few threads about progress stalling on a cut and wanted to share some insight and hopefully get a discussion going. I wanted to make a list of the primary culprits I see in the majority of cases, and hopefully some of you who log in looking for advice on stalling will find that one or more of these applies to your situation. To preface, I am by no means an expert, and this is admittedly purely anecdotal. So feel free to dismiss all of it! I believe it wi…

Find your maintenance calories at your current activity level, and reduce ~500 calories per day from that. It can be more if you want to cut faster, but you will risk increased muscle loss. 500cal deficit per day is 3500 calories per week = 1lb loss per week.