get big and ripped all year long, it looks like it can be done,

[Rogue Warrior]

During times of weight loss, muscle is usually the first to go unless you are a beginner lifter or on gear.

Not that your proposal is impossible; it would have to take extremely correct calculations in order for than plan to work properly.

 

[Kid Dynamite]

During times of weight loss, muscle is usually the first to go unless you are a beginner lifter or on gear.

Why do you say that? I've never experienced this until I've dieted for too long a time, and almost everyone else loses more fat before they lose any muscle, assuming they at least have a vague notion of how to go about doing it.