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Should you deload during a diet break

A diet break is a planned break from a diet, where you eat at maintenance calories instead of a deficit or surplus. These breaks are intended to help with the psychological difficulty of longer term dieting. While diet breaks haven’t caught on in general, I’ve seen them recommended by high level coaches for years. More… Read More »

Diet during deload week

Follow us. So is there any need to adjust calories at all? All while preventing any strength loss and excessive muscle damage from occurring when you get back to your usual workouts. I know the skeptical part of your brain is like. Many exercise programs have built-in deloads every weeks. When I returned to weightlifting,… Read More »