How to Cut?

Hey im a idiot
i just did my first bulk now,
how do i CUT ???

i serouisly no nothing about cutting never tired to loose fat ever my whole life so please help ???

you do lots of cardio and you try to eat below the caloric requirements so you will lose weight and yeah you cut carbs out

I need to cut 2

in 2 months I will

You don’t need to do “lots of cardio.” Overdoing that is just as likely to cause you to lose muscle as well as fat.

Losing fat is largely dietary. Find out how many calories you need to eat to maintain your current body weight and then eat less than that. There are dozens of articles on T-Nation to help with fat loss, so use the search function. In particular, I recommend Waterbury’s 10x3 for Fat Loss program and the T-Dawg 2.0 diet.

Step one: Push yourself away from the dinner table

Step two: Eat smaller portion sizes

Step three: Repeat

[quote]Judas wrote:
Hey im a idiot
i just did my first bulk now,
how do i CUT ???

i serouisly no nothing about cutting never tired to loose fat ever my whole life so please help ???

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Some good advice:

  1. Search the articles archive (believe it or not, this subject has been up before)
  2. Read up
  3. Act on it

Good luck!

Yeah man no more squats and milk.

It’s all about squats and coffee. Black coffee.

Black coffee with splenda sometimes as a “treat”.

And occasional cheat days to keep you sane.

Out of curiosity, how much did you gain on this recent bulk? What is your BF% ?

Good luck man,

B.

[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Yeah man no more squats and milk.

It’s all about squats and coffee. Black coffee.

Black coffee with splenda sometimes as a “treat”.

And occasional cheat days to keep you sane.

Out of curiosity, how much did you gain on this recent bulk? What is your BF% ?

Good luck man,

B.[/quote]
hahah what the fuck hahah sorry but i dont understand your first bit ??? something about coffee ? and squats ?

um i was 71kgs in JAN 06 probably 10% bf i could just see all my abbs

stoped bulking end of July 06 at 86kgs
probably 12-14% bf only top abbs where visable. just worked part time and did chads high freq and ate like a animal.

ok so do a bit of cardio and eat less than what i need ok thanks got it sounds pretty simple, cheers to all who posted.

[quote]Judas wrote:
BradTGIF wrote:
Yeah man no more squats and milk.

It’s all about squats and coffee. Black coffee.

Black coffee with splenda sometimes as a “treat”.

And occasional cheat days to keep you sane.

Out of curiosity, how much did you gain on this recent bulk? What is your BF% ?

Good luck man,

B.
hahah what the fuck hahah sorry but i dont understand your first bit ??? something about coffee ? and squats ?

um i was 71kgs in JAN 06 probably 10% bf i could just see all my abbs

stoped bulking end of July 06 at 86kgs
probably 12-14% bf only top abbs where visable. just worked part time and did chads high freq and ate like a animal.

ok so do a bit of cardio and eat less than what i need ok thanks got it sounds pretty simple, cheers to all who posted.

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I’ve never made a major cut personally (only helped others), so feel free to not listen if you really don’t want to.

A recent “cool tip” was to use HIIT (high intensity interval training) for cardio, and i have to support this - it’s worked for me even during bulk (though my metabolism is faster than a speeding bullet…)… i’d reccomend it, eg 90s jog, 30s sprint is a set, aim for quite a few… plan ahead so you don’t end up half way through (eg, as far away from your house as you would get) and then stop… and then collapse on the roadside for 30min :wink:

SQUATS AND MILK is an “old mans” bulk… which works wonders esp when you first start… his basically saying no more fat laden full cream milk, but stimulants to up your metabolic rate instead! :slight_smile:

According to your profile, you are 6 ft 2’ and your goal is to get to 96 kg. Judging by your pics, you have made some progress and you definitely don’t look fat.

To make a long story short, I see no need for a full blown cutting phase at the moment. If you want to lower your bodyfat level, I’d rather set your calories at maintenance, consume adequate protein, train hard and heavy, do some sprints and simply shoot for “body recomposition”.

I know cutting up is a pain but is made a lot easier with an effective combination of cardio and diet, I’m not trying to state the obvious but as some people tell you to pretty much keep your the cardio the same and just concentrate on diet I think is wrong as it is definately a tougher way to achieve your goals.

also I’ve read articles from top bodybuilders stating that if you for example went to the gym and burned off a 1000 calories and then consumed an extra 1000 calories that day your physique would certainly benefit more than if you didn’t do cardio and just cut out that 1000 calories, which is always tough to do I’m sure you’ll agree!!!

[quote]michael2507 wrote:
According to your profile, you are 6 ft 2’ and your goal is to get to 96 kg. Judging by your pics, you have made some progress and you definitely don’t look fat.

To make a long story short, I see no need for a full blown cutting phase at the moment. If you want to lower your bodyfat level, I’d rather set your calories at maintenance, consume adequate protein, train hard and heavy, do some sprints and simply shoot for “body recomposition”. [/quote]

yeah i have a little belly that girls at the beach will find unattractive summers coming up and im gonna go and live on the beach for the summer so i wanna be lean and mean, so i can have more game if you know what i mean. once summers over its back to bulking and geting to the 96kg, thanks for posting

hey mate that’s exactly what I’ve done, come september it’s time to start banging those heavy weights in again!!!