So throughout my entire time of working out I've mixed between recomping and bulking. I could never do an extended cut without feeling like total garbage. Here's my original thought process:
1) Take maintenance calories, subtract 500 and aim for this every day.
2) Fats at around 0.4g per lb bodyweight, protein at 1g per lb bodyweight, then I fill the rest in with carbs.
Without stims/fat burners, by the 4th/5th day, I feel pretty unfocused when working out, etc.. Is it because 500 is too many calories to cut right off the bat? Or could it just be that I've been calculating my maintenance calories wrong this entire time? I pretty much only lift heavy while cutting, and I don't do cardio. Is there a different way that you guys end up cutting? Something like.... -200 calories every week? etc.
1) Take maintenance calories, subtract 500 and aim for this every day.
2) Fats at around 0.4g per lb bodyweight, protein at 1g per lb bodyweight, then I fill the rest in with carbs.
Without stims/fat burners, by the 4th/5th day, I feel pretty unfocused when working out, etc.. Is it because 500 is too many calories to cut right off the bat? Or could it just be that I've been calculating my maintenance calories wrong this entire time? I pretty much only lift heavy while cutting, and I don't do cardio. Is there a different way that you guys end up cutting? Something like.... -200 calories every week? etc.