When entering into a dieting phase in the pursuit to lose weight, we would argue that there are two primary body composition goals you should set-out to achieve:
▪️Maximally maintain muscle mass
▪️ Maximally reduce body fat
It takes immense effort, time, strategy and dedication to acquire new skeletal tissue during building phases. Lifters should want to preserve this lean mass at all costs when they decide to enter into a cutting phase.
It should come as no surprise that being in a chronic calorie deficit is not a conducive environment for maximising muscle growth. However, this doesn’t mean there aren’t specific protocols you can put in place to MAINTAIN, or even slightly eek-out some novel hypertrophy gains while dieting.
Swipe through the above to read our top-tips for how to execute a fat-loss journey, and understand how you can decrease adipose tissue while maximally retaining your muscle mass!
Let us know, have you noticed a difference in how much muscle mass you’ve retained in past dieting phases by capitalising on the points in this post?