What type of workout when cutting

[bludevil]

OK, I'm officially starting my cutting phase for the summer next week. My question is, since I'm looking to lean up and reduce my calorie consumption, can I still use by mass routine, ie heavy weights/low reps or would it be better to go to less weights/higher reps. I would like to stay with the heay/low reps because I'm still making decent progress.

 

[Scotty the Body]

Hey Blu
I'm currently on a cutting diet and I can tell you that your lifts WILL go down because of the lowered cal intake.
However, I would keep the same routine, after a couple weeks, my numbers started to get back up there again.

 

[Dr. Pain]

Agreed, always lift for mass...bulk or cut!

DP

 

[Arnold]

I agree, there is no need to change your work-out (except maybe add some cardio), although you will lose some strength and have to make some adjustments with your weights.

 

[bludevil]

Thanks for the replies. I'll keep my current mass routine. I just hope I don't get to discouraged when my gains come to a halt with the reduction in calories.

STB - are you following the Carb-Up every 4th day routine or more of the zone diet. Just wondered how tired I'd be.

 

[Scotty the Body]

I'm using the carb up one, I was feeling real tired for the first couple weeks of it but I'm good now, I haven't been doing a whole lot of cardio, maybe once or twice a week for 20min max.
So far, I believe almost all the weight I've dropped has been fat so I'm happy so far, bin going at it for around 3 weeks and have dropped around 5-6lb so far.