I'm going for a cutting cycle now, and I want to know if it is possible to cut doing calisthenics/endurance exercise to improve fitness, while keeping a HST cycle to preserve muscle.
I would mainly adopt exercises like bench/dips, rows/chins, squats/deads and arnold presses, without iso's.
For the conditioning/endurance exercises I would go for pushups, chins, abs, and overall bodyweight exercises.
Could this lead to overtraining ? I think the magic could be in the frequency. I wish I could do 6-12x a week HST to improve fat loss but probably isn't possible, so maybe HST 3x as usual with calisthenics on off days and Max-Stim on heavy loads to prevent fatigue.
Another way to go is to lower squats/deadlifts frequency to not have my lower back killed (you can feel it in doing some high reps calisthenics). Or doing the BW exercises the same workout day, before the workout. This could prevent exercise-skipping by muscle soreness but could also cause a dropping strenght.
All in all, I want to end the cut preserving the most muscle I can and more prepared physically (more stamina and able to do more reps at bodyweight exercises).
Thoughts ?
I would mainly adopt exercises like bench/dips, rows/chins, squats/deads and arnold presses, without iso's.
For the conditioning/endurance exercises I would go for pushups, chins, abs, and overall bodyweight exercises.
Could this lead to overtraining ? I think the magic could be in the frequency. I wish I could do 6-12x a week HST to improve fat loss but probably isn't possible, so maybe HST 3x as usual with calisthenics on off days and Max-Stim on heavy loads to prevent fatigue.
Another way to go is to lower squats/deadlifts frequency to not have my lower back killed (you can feel it in doing some high reps calisthenics). Or doing the BW exercises the same workout day, before the workout. This could prevent exercise-skipping by muscle soreness but could also cause a dropping strenght.
All in all, I want to end the cut preserving the most muscle I can and more prepared physically (more stamina and able to do more reps at bodyweight exercises).
Thoughts ?
