Mini-Cuts and Mini-Bulks for Faster Body Recomp After 40 | Ep 463

About this episode

This episode discusses effective dieting strategies for body recomposition after 40, focusing on mini-cuts and mini-bulks.

Bulking, cutting, bulking, cutting. If you've been through that cycle and ended up further from your goal than when you started, there's a reason the yo-yo keeps repeating, especially over 40. Learn about the metabolic adaptation and hormonal changes that make long diet phases more difficult (and sometimes unsustainable), a creative approach called intermittent dieting (not to be confused with intermittent fasting), a very powerful weekend refeed strategy, and the exact structure of a mini-cu...

People in this episode

Host: Philip Pape

Topics covered

• body recomposition
• metabolic adaptation
• hormonal changes
• intermittent dieting
• mini-cuts
• mini-bulks
• diet strategies

Keywords

• bulking
• cutting
• intermittent dieting
• metabolic adaptation
• hormonal changes
• diet phases
• weekend refeed
• mini-cuts
• mini-bulks

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