Help with cut after marathon training

RoyalMoose11

I'm about to start a cut after a long stretch of distance running training and good lifting gains. I'm looking to see if I can maximize on the muscle I've build during my marathon prep.

I'm going at a 500 cal/week cut and dropping my lifting to three a week. I found that a lot of my whole wheat foods have high sodium so I'm looking for some alternatives. Maybe up the quiona and cut some of the whole wheat products.

Also I'm thinking about going Nov 1 - Dec 15 (six weeks). Does that seem like a decent enough time?

The last time I was on a defect was my original weight loss (more for overall health and not body comp). Went 317-219 so I'm thinking if this 6 week cut will be/feel different than this last weight loss attempt which was more inspired by numbers on scale.

jacksonpt

A 6 week cut @ 500 calorie deficit per week = total deficit of 3000 cals = a very rough .8lb weight loss. That'll certainly minimize your muscle loss, but that's not much of a cut.

Did you mean 500 calorie deficit per day?

RoyalMoose11

Excuse me I did. Editing for clarity.

glevinso

Just out of curiosity but were you actually able to eat at maintenance during your marathon build? I am never able to near the end. Too many calories burned, no room to put more in unless I eat something unhealthy, which leads to bad training later.

jacksonpt

glevinso wrote: »

Just out of curiosity but were you actually able to eat at maintenance during your marathon build? I am never able to near the end. Too many calories burned, no room to put more in unless I eat something unhealthy, which leads to bad training later.

Interesting. I routinely see better workouts and races when I include a pint of ben and jerry's the night before. However, the most I've done/trained for is 6hr HIM races.

OP, sorry about the derail. Back to your regularly scheduled program.

glevinso

My HIM PR is 5:13, and I am currently training for an attempt at a < 3:10 BQ in a few weeks. My calorie needs are somewhere between 3000 and 3500 a day. I can put in a little ice cream to make up calories. I drink plenty of beer. Yet I still routinely find myself about 500 in the red by the time I am too tired to stay awake any longer (which is earlier than usual because I am so tired all the time).

Also I find marathon training is even harder to deal with calorically than HIM. Training runs for a HIM just don't get long enough to put you into the deep calorie debt.

rybo

This can't be a serious post