Strategic Muscle Sacrifice for Rapid Cutting

[Binge Artist]

An idea occurred to me after looking at a few off-season pics of Lee Priest.

As we know, maintaining ALL of your lean mass during a cut is virtually impossible to do. And maintenace becomes even more difficult the quicker you lose weight.

So, what would happen if you tried this little gambit:

While bulking, INTENTIONALLY over-develop a few unsightly muscles. For example, do squats and weighted sit ups until you have a 40" waist, and do deadlifts until you need special seats at restaurants and theaters just to accomondate your huge, beastly ass.

Then, when it's time to cut, AVOID training the over-developed muscles as much as possible, because 1 you'll have more energy to focus on the muscles you want to keep, 2 since it's inevitable that your metabolism will eat some muscle tissue, it will probably eat those muscles you aren't training, much more than the muscles you are training, and 3 since you are allowing yourself to sacrifice muscle, you can cut at a much quicker pace than if you followed the traditional route of bulking in a more or less proportionate manner and then slowly stripping the fat.

Anyone ever tried this, or have any ideas about whether or not it would work?

 

[PARooolller]

I think it's almost impossible to experience a rapid loss of weight without losing some muscle mass without the aid of an anti-catabolic fat burner such as Clenbuterol...

I was never a fan of losing weight fast anyways, as it was always a disaster for me...I would rather lose weight the healthy way in a slow manner and never exceeding 1lb a week....

I supplement with BCAAS when I'm on a cut to preserve lean mass...My diet never really changes. Just portion sizes.

 

[PsychedelicPeptide]

It's hard to say, the body is a strange thing. I can see where breaking down for example your biceps and pecs during a cut period, while leaving your legs in a rested condition, could result in its inability to fully repair the biceps and pecs and get them back up to whatever state you want them in-- hence you may end up with out of shape legs and suboptimal pecs/biceps.

I don't workout to put on size for competition-type stuff though, so I can't really say for sure how effective it would be. I'd think you would be better off just doing more full-body/maintenance-type workouts though, that way you still exercise everything but just to a lesser extent. If I ever have weeks where I can't get to the gym 5 times, I will try to do 2 or 3 full body workouts instead just to prevent any disproportionate lifting.