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Second pass at: Programming during a large energy deficit

Nutrition & Training › Resistance training fatigue lean mass loss DXA

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b.nilsenTL218 Sep 2025#11

Reading back through, this was answered upthread and I missed it. My fault.

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excursion_checkTL3Regular27 Sep 2025 · edited#20

Thank you for the correction. I would rather find out here than later.

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n.lehtinenTL229 Sep 2025#22

Programming during a large energy would be much easier to settle if anyone reported the denominator. Almost nobody reports the denominator.

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an.ibarraTL216 Oct 2025#42

KLindqvist, post #24: Where training is new, the early gains are largely neural, which is why they can appear even during a deficit and do not indicate tissue change. Go to post

Small correction to my own earlier position on Programming during a large energy. I had the units the wrong way round, which changes the conclusion by an order of magnitude and therefore changes it entirely.

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l.wikstromTL228 Oct 2025#57

I read post #55 twice before replying, because I had assumed the opposite.

Strength and hypertrophy respond to different things, and preserving one during a deficit is a different objective from building the other.

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integrator_logTL3Regular1 Nov 2025#63

Strength and hypertrophy respond to different things, and preserving one during a deficit is a different objective from building the other.

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k.asanteTL27 Nov 2025 · edited#70

Nothing to add, except that this is the answer I would give if asked.

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m.malinowskiTL29 Nov 2025#73

so.cardoso, post #13: Recovery: heavier training on a energy deficit and on a compound that slows gastric emptying requires attention to recovery (sleep, nutrition, stress). Recovery capacity declines with deficit, so training volume might need adjustment. A single observation, in a thread that deserves better than single observations. Go to post

Post #69 describes the usual case. This is about the unusual one.

Two people in this thread mean different things by Programming during a large energy and are disagreeing about the definition while believing they are disagreeing about the facts. Worth pausing to define it.

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f.fenwickTL3Regular15 Nov 2025#82

Frequency: three sessions per week of full-body training is easier to maintain than higher frequencies on an energy deficit. Consistency beats intensity when recovery capacity is limited.

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