should i be cutting?

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  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    I don't know about your goals but when I get to 18% body fat I will continue to cut weight.
  • jeffpettis
    jeffpettis Posts: 865 Member
    jeffpettis wrote: »
    I just reread your original post. Are you saying you work every body part five days a week?

    Also, how long have you been lifting? If you haven't been lifting very long using an intelligently designed routine you can probably still make some noob gains in strength and possibly a little muscle while you lose some fat. This will be very short lived but take advantage of it while you can.

    But my main question is still... are you lifting five days a week using the same muscles? If so, don't expect too much in the way of anything, except maybe an injury.
    My split is arms shoulders chest back legs.

    In my opinion, as a beginner, you should be focusing on a three day a week full body routine. Leave the splits for when you have a lot more experience under your belt.

    And to answer your original question, most people will "cut" until they are lower than 15% body fat, depending on your goals, and then "bulk" until just before 15%, again, depending on your goals. Meaning they won't allow their body fat to exceed 15% because that just means a longer cutting cycle. If you are looking for definition or the "cut" look you will need to get down below 15%, anything higher than that and there is going to be a layer of fat covering your muscles not allowing the seperation to be seen that makes for definition. Hope that makes sense.

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