Questions on CT's Destroying Fat

Training
1

Hi everyone.

I am new to the T Nation and planning for fat loss for next couple months.
I’m 5’7’’ with 160lbs and about 13% fat.
Before I bulk, I want to lose all my fat down to like 8 to 7%.
I was thinking about following CT’s Destroying Fat program.

Schedule in OP:
Day 1: Heavy lifting chest/back
Day 2: Lactate-inducing workout 1 + 20-30 minutes of steady-state aerobic work
Day 3: OFF
Day 4: Heavy lifting quads/hams
Day 5: OFF
Day 6: Lactate-inducing workout 2 + 20-30 minutes of steady-state aerobic work
Day 7: OFF

My preferred schedule:
Day 1: Heavy lifting chest/back
Day 2: Lactate-inducing workout 1 + 20-30 minutes of steady-state aerobic work
Day 3: Heavy lifting quads/hams
Day 4: Lactate-inducing workout 2 + 20-30 minutes of steady-state aerobic work
Day 5: Heavy lifting quads/hams
Day 6: Lactate-inducing workout 2 + 20-30 minutes of steady-state aerobic work
Day 7: Heavy lifting quads/hams

I was thinking about doing this program w/o resting days.
Would it be beneficial ?

2

[quote]yankies90 wrote:
Before I bulk, I want to lose all my fat down to like 8 to 7%.
[/quote]
I’d just focus on eating real food and getting stronger instead. But try it and see how it goes.
I’d do 2 upper body 2 lower body instead of 1 upper body 3 lower body like you wrote.

3

What are your current lifts?–If they’re low, work on getting stronger and putting some muscle on 1st. at 5’7" 160 cutting own to that low of a bodyweight, you won’t weigh much–if you are 13% and do get down to 8-9& you’ll weigh around 145 (give or take-because of water).

And agree with above–2 upper/2 lower

4

How do you know you’re 13% body fat?

What do your lifts look like?

If you follow a proper diet and a good training program you will naturally lean up and end up bigger.

5

well… I have the omron body fat monitor. that’s how I found my body fat. I surely know it’s not always 100% accurate. My lifts aren’t so heavy. I was suffering from back pain and shoulder pain. For these reasons, I had to quit working out for about an year. The main point of the OP was if I would still lose fat although I work out like my “preferred schedule” without rest days.

Thank you all !

6

Fatloss comes from diet and cardio. Any program can be an aid.

7

5’7 at 160lbs, 13%BF, somewhere Prof X is shaking his head.

First off, 7-8% fat is a very, very difficult goal, i’m not sure you realize just how lean that is.

Second, your goal shouldn’t be fat-loss, it should be to gain muscle, you need to actually have some muscle on your body for any kind of frame to show up on you. Eat clean foods, find a program or a style of lifting that you believe in and will stick with and the results will come.

As you do this your body should hopefully begin to make a composition shift where you may get heavier but you will look much leaner than you did at 160lbs.