Now you can be fat and orange

I mean it is

You can just still build muscle in a deficit

The only reason you lose muscle in a cut is because you eat less food in general = less carbs = less efficient training sessions = regressing on lifts

On tirz you can’t get in a small deficit

And less protein usually

Couldn’t be more wrong

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For me if you're cutting you lose muscle, You can minimize that muscle loss by dieting. Just watch Jeff nippards year long experieemnt

Yeah didn’t he add 0.5lb in the quads or smth

Maintenance is 3000 I’m eating 1000 calories how ima grow muscle

Just leaving this one here

Semi right but also semi wrong You lose muscle in a cut because you’re in a deficit It’s nothing to do with less efficient training

Just because you eat less doesn’t mean you lose muscle especially in trained individuals who account for protein, keep their training consistent and carbs relatively high

No. You don’t lose muscle in a cut because of fewer carbs - because you lose muscle because the body is in a catabolic energy state and will break down tissue if stimulus + protein + recovery aren’t sufficient

Your giving a one size fits all answer to a situation/scenario that doesn’t allow for one

That deficit is absolutely retarded. You can build or maintain muscle tissue during a cut depending on the aggressiveness of the cut, your protein intake, anabolic and lipolytic agents and training stimulus. It’s called body recompositioning. A -2000cal deficit is insane and you will without a doubt catabolise muscle tissue.