Safety

Straps are probably the single best purchase I’ve made. But some if you want to make serious back gains. We are trying to train our BACK muscles on pull day not our grip. Your grip will give up far before your back muscles do if you are lifting any decent amount of weight.

You don’t lose muscle because cutting “doesn’t work.” You lose muscle because you exit a bulk too aggressively. I heard Scott Stevenson talk about this when I spent the weekend at his seminars. He used the term “cementing” muscle tissue.. Most will run a surplus, we want to grow of course, bodyweight will climb as a result and strength too should increase. Your muscles will look fuller and performance too should be in ascendence. Then body fat creeps up, panics sets in. This immediately sets off a chain of events. Slash 800 to 1,000 calories. Pull carbs down, hard. Add masses of cardio daily Sleep gets worse. And then they the words get uttered: “I always lose muscle when I cut.” No. You never cemented it. New muscle tissue is metabolically expensive. Your body has to justify keeping it. When you’ve just built new contractile tissue, increased glycogen storage, added intramuscular water, improved neural efficiency and potentially stimulated satellite cell activity, that adaptation is still relatively fresh. If you immediately create a large energy deficit, drop performance and increase systemic stress, the body adapts again. And the easiest adaptation? Lose what it doesn’t need. Fresh tissue is easier to lose than mature tissue that has been repeatedly stimulated and supported. So what does cementing actually mean in practice? It means consolidation. Surplus phase → Stabilisation phase → Deficit phase. The above is preferred over … Surplus → Panic → Crash cut. A proper consolidation phase should hold bodyweight relatively stable for several weeks after the surplus ends. Look to keep protein high and consistent whilst maintaining m training performance via load, reps and execution. Don’t then immediately spike cardio AND reduce calories dramatically. This will allow connective tissue, neural adaptations and structural changes to stabilise by telling the body: “This tissue is required. We still perform. We still lift heavy. We still need this.” Then when you do enter a deficit, the signal to retain muscle is stronger. Most hobbybuilders never look dramatically different year to year because they never consolidate growth. They build, then rush to diet, lose a chunk. Then rebuild the same tissue. Repeat. It’s spinning wheels with better lighting. Real progress requires patience on both ends. You need a productive surplus. And you need the discipline to stabilise before you strip calories. Growth is not just about building AND keeping. Without both it’s wasting time. If you want to be meaningfully bigger five years from now, not just temporarily bigger in a given month, you need to respect the transition. Cement it then enter the cut.

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