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anyone try this kinda diet?

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Found a diet that said it was a contest prep and started a 200lb man at 3000 cal a day at 20/40/40 then every 3 weeks you drop 200 caps by cutting carbs. Now it has you doing cardio 30-45 min 3 times a week to begin with but this increses as caps drop. I can't remember all the stuff but you also cut most sugar from diet at start. Then cut additional stuff as it progresses. Thinking of trying it the theory is your body will continue to burn fat with slow reduction in macros instead of going into survival mode when you make big cuts. Supposedly duet was used by Olympia competitors.
 
This is only going to work to the point where you are providing enough cals & appropriate macros for what you are trying to do. If you're talking IFBB pro bodybuilding competition prep, keep in mind the end goal is to look a certain way at a certain time of day on competition day - i.e the last weeks are all about water drop, and you will be giving up muscle as you do this type of cut.

Generally a continued drop in carb intake is going to hit a point where you either start starving your body of sufficient energy source or you are intending to do a ketogenic diet with sufficient refeeds. You can't just perpetually reduce carbs and expect to have an energy source to support increased cardio or general energy demands. You either are gong w/ a carb-based energy source where you are eating sufficient carbs, ore you are doing a ketone-based energy source where you do refeeds but still getting sufficient cals from fats & proteins. Just cutting carbs is going to leave you going catabolic. And if you're not also translating the part of this cut "Olympia athlete cut diet" that is focused explicitly on the water drop, you're going to give up even more muscle because you don't need to get that far down for a show and water manipulation is only very short term manipulation anyway, where you assume you will do some sort of rebound when you're done w/ your target date.
 
i'm just trying to figure out best way to lose bf without muscle. think i'm going to just eat about 500 cals less than maintenence and keep carbs low like 30 percent fat around 20 and rest protien. plus add cardio 3-4 days a week on top of lifting. just starting a cycle so hoping that will help to maintain muscle and maybe do some recomp.
 
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