Eli5: how does cutting weight work? What needs to be done?
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Do you mean cutting as in part of a bodybuilders routine? or just in the general sense of dieting?
Cutting weight in the body building sense is either short term, which involves temporarily eating and especially drinking very little, which makes your muscles far more pronounced. This is the kinda shit Henry Cavil did before his “pose naked in the bathtub” shot, or how advertising agencies do before and after shots. (They do the after shot first, then have the actor drink a ton of water and eat salty food)
It can also be part of a cutting and bulking routine. When you lose weight, you also lose some muscle mass. So the simplified explanation is that you lose 10kg dieting, this also removes like 5kg muscles. Then you start eating again, while heavily working out, regaining 10 kg, of which 6+ is muscle. Then you cut/diet again. and this way you attempt to increase how much of your body is muscle, and decrease how much is fat.
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