Query about recomp?

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dave_in_ni
dave_in_ni Posts: 533 Member
edited November 2024 in Goal: Maintaining Weight
Been doing a bit of reading about recomp, first rule seems to be slight surplus on training days, deficit on rest days. Now my issue is I do PPL 6 days per week. So how would I get around that? Just 1 day in a deficit seems pointless.

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  • CarvedTones
    CarvedTones Posts: 2,340 Member
    You can recomp on maintenance every day.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Maintenance is fine
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,487 Member
    You don't need to be a deficit any day of the week.
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    Recomp is just training and your body changing over time because of that training. We used to call it getting in shape.

    This ^ while at maintenance calorie wise overall. Whether you do surplus on training days and deficit on others or just maintenance eating overall makes little difference.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    No you don't need to calorie cycle or eat at a surplus on training days.
    That's normally stated by people with a program to sell or badly misguided ideas about physiology.

    You do realise that people gain muscle / lose fat without calorie counting?
    It's what people have been doing for generations.
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