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Calorie cycling: does it work?
I was wondering what you guys thought of about the idea of doing bunch of mini-cycles. I was thinking of cutting 500 below maintenence once every four days. I'm thinking the metabolism might stay high and allow you to burn your regular calories as if you were to bulk straight. I've heard that as one diets the amount of fat they lose diminishes as their bodies begin to adapt and hold onto it better. Well, I think this would be such a short and undramatic cycle that the body would just keep doing what its doing- burning calories.
Or is it possible that the body might figure it out and adapt thus lowering metabolism? If this did works out exactly like the math (which almost never happens but lets use our imaginations
- It appears to be all I've got to go on 
) then you'd lose 2 lbs per month and 24 lbs per year more then you would if you just straight bulked at 500 calories above the maintenence level. I like the idea because: how many of you go on a two week or more cutting schedual only to end up losing more fat then muscle? The thing is how much loss would come from mass? And would it massively hinder muscle gaining progress?
Lots of input please!
I was wondering what you guys thought of about the idea of doing bunch of mini-cycles. I was thinking of cutting 500 below maintenence once every four days. I'm thinking the metabolism might stay high and allow you to burn your regular calories as if you were to bulk straight. I've heard that as one diets the amount of fat they lose diminishes as their bodies begin to adapt and hold onto it better. Well, I think this would be such a short and undramatic cycle that the body would just keep doing what its doing- burning calories.
Or is it possible that the body might figure it out and adapt thus lowering metabolism? If this did works out exactly like the math (which almost never happens but lets use our imaginations
- It appears to be all I've got to go on ) then you'd lose 2 lbs per month and 24 lbs per year more then you would if you just straight bulked at 500 calories above the maintenence level. I like the idea because: how many of you go on a two week or more cutting schedual only to end up losing more fat then muscle? The thing is how much loss would come from mass? And would it massively hinder muscle gaining progress?Lots of input please!
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