You often hear people talk about recomping or “building muscle in a deficit”, but realistically the goal just needs to be to not LOSE muscle while you’re dropping fat. Unfortunately that’s easier said than done, but today I want to go over some considerations for giving you the best chance at keeping all that lean tissue on your next cut.

In episode 265 of The Drop Set I talk about how sleep, stress management, and program variables all set the table for your actual results.

Timestamps:



* 0:00 – Cold Open

* 0:34 – Intro

* 6:57 – How undereating can contribute

* 10:10 – Too much cardio?

* 13:36 – Sleep and stress being a factor

* 18:40 – What is overtraining?

* 22:15 – Action items to fix this



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