Slight fat loss workout/diet?

When cycling fat loss with muscle building what do I do during the fat loss stage?

• If I follow the saw tooth method (cycling muscle building with weight loss ie, one period of focused muscle building and eating accordingly followed by one period of fat loss and eating according) for burning fat and building muscle what happens when I get to the fat loss stage? I won't be powerful to push the weights as the only way to burn fat is to create a calorie deficit. And this means a reduction in power. So I won't be able to maintain my muscles - right 1. The Sawtooth Method Method one involves gaining muscle or losing fat until you hit a predetermined body fat percentage. I call it The Sawtooth Method. Let's say that you start out at 10% body fat and follow one of the step-by-step muscle-building exercise routines described in .... In this case, you might decide to bulk up until you reach 12%. Then, you switch gears and follow ... until you're back down to 10%. If fat loss is a priority, you can take the opposite approach and start by losing fat until you're down to 7-8% body fat. Then, you change focus and start gaining weight until you're at 10% again. This type of eating produces a "sawtooth" pattern of weight gain and weight loss (hence the name), with the result that you end up with more muscle and less fat after several cycles. If you don't have access to a reliable method of measuring changes in body composition, you can just use changes in weight instead. I'll also employ a number of more subjective (but, in my opinion, still extremely useful) ways to gauge my progress. For instance, I know that it's time to start losing fat when my lower abs become hidden under a layer of fat and I can't see them clearly. Conversely, when I start to feel irritable, tired and de-motivated on a regular basis (which usually happens after an extended period of dieting), and I'm happy with the way I look in the mirror, then I decide to focus on gaining weight and building muscle. I mean that in the fat loss stage my program will now be more aerobic based so I could lose muscle strength easily.

• Answer:

  keep your protein intake high, keep up the heavy lifting, and pace your diet slowly dont cut calories by too much. Do this and you will keep muscle loss to a minimum. Dont go overboard on the cardio, losing fat is mostly diet.