Thread: How to lose weight for powerlifting?

Keep your carbs lowish, your protein and fat high, reduce your overall calories by 500, and keep lifting heavy. This is a good start. See how you go on that for a few weeks.

Cut back on any volume work (accessory) and S/S cardio you're doing. Keep doing/start doing sprints/hill runs etc a few times a week.

Originally Posted by larry123

Any tips, ideas or advice?

Weight

That depends on:

1) How much weight do you need to lose?

2) How long (days/weeks) do you have to lose it?

And those number would be?

Kenny Croxdale

gummy bears.

Is this for a weigh in? I know powerlifters are doing water cuts to drop like 20lbs in a few days and then start trying to get the water back in before the meet time. I have no experience with this but I know it goes on, which is relatively new to me.

Originally Posted by Merkaba

Is this for a weigh in? I know powerlifters are doing water cuts to drop like 20lbs in a few days and then start trying to get the water back in before the meet time. I have no experience with this but I know it goes on, which is relatively new to me.

How do you do water cuts?

Originally Posted by Call of Ktulu

How do you do water cuts?

You need to know what you're doing but basically you drop next to all your carbs from your diet, and do anything that makes you sweat like a motherfucker. Steam rooms, hot baths, etc.

It can be dangerous if you're not experienced with it, so don't go doing it before you get more specific advice than this. I've never done it, but that's the gist of it.

The idea is to lose weight to get into your class, but lose weight which you can easily put back on before the actual comp. Rather than cutting down to your weight and risking losing valuable muscle.