Thread: Cutting strategies

gradually lower your caloires. not all 500 at once. 200 each time when needed until in a 500 calorie deficiet ... thats if you choose to go that way and just follow a calorie reduce diet. carb cycling is a bit different. check the stickies. and yes you could start this right away.
Id reccomend starting with only 2days of HIIT at first. let diet do its jobs and add cardio when needed.

6'2" 210 is exactly where I was in January. Took me this long to get to 9% BF. I did HIT 2 days and lifted 3-4 days to get here. About 3K calories too.

Dead stop in fat loss now for 2 weeks. Extreme measures needed to hit 5%. Good luck.

"Blest" should also reply to this...he appears to be identical to us in size, etc. and he looks to be right where you probably want to be (I do anyway as a tall ecto). How about it, Blest?

seabee what was your starting body fat%?

Did you carb cycle? Im thinking of cutting the first month on a 1 g carb/lb bodyweight diet with a refeed every five days. If that doesnt work Ill try the carb cycle diet. Im not really in a hurry to get super lean as I want to retain all muscle.

About 15%. I took in around 3000 cals. Ratios: 50/40/10. No major diet changes except less cheat days. It was the HIT x2-3 days and I added a second leg day per week, plus an extra high rep/light weight set to every lift (burn out set). I normally only lift heavy.

Good luck. I'm not much help in the diet department. I'm in the process of getting emergency help from this board on dieting to break through this wall I've hit.