Can I maintain muscle on this abreviated weights program while cutting

[USER54894846548948]

I have been lifting weights 3 times a week while doing a calorie deficit and am happy with my weight loss results so far.

What I want to know is, can I maintain the muscle I have, by doing the following program. I have had to space out my training a bit more due to a worsening of long term medical issues. I know there are better programs, but this is what I am doing currently and want to know if its enough.

This is my very abreviated program:

Workout A
- Bench press 3x10
- Squats 3x5
- Seadted shoulder press 3x8
- Pull ups 3x7
- Weighted dips 3x9

Workout B
- Bench press 3x10
- Straight leg deadlifts 3x6
- Seated Shoulder press 3x8
- Bent over barbell rows 3x8
- Chin ups 3x7

I will be alternating Workout A & B with 2 days rest in between like this:

WEEK 1
Sun - OFF
Mon - Workout A
Tue - OFF
Wed - OFF
Thu Workout B
Fri - OFF
Sat - OFF

WEEK 2
Sun - Workout A
Mon - OFF
Tue - OFF
Wed - Workout B
Thu - OFF
Fri - OFF
Sat - Workout A

and so on....

If anyone else is maintaining/gaining muscle by using an abreviated weight program while cutting, please let me know what you are doing.

Cheers

[BobHoskins]

It depends how long youre planning to cut for really. The workouts and frequency you have in mind are not ideal, but if you can lose weight quickly enough youre in with a fighting chance. Keep up a big protein intake and, if youre not already, take bcaa's.

[yoj]

First off, gaining muscle on a cut is a feat in and of itself. Second, trying to do so on a suboptimal program is probably just not going to work. But can you hold on to your current muscle mass as best as possible? Of course. Doing full body every 3 days is going to give your muscle more repeated stimulus than most splits because it more frequently hits all your muscle groups.

The way you have it set up is kind of strange, by that I mean the number of chest vs back don't seem to match. Plus, all your rep schemes are strange. I would personally stick to 5x5 or 3x5 for everything. You want to go as heavy as possible here. This is a bit brosciencey, but essentially on a cut you lift to tell your body "hey this is hard, keep this stuff! we need it!", and lifting as heavy as possible will tell your body that the most due to the highest stimulus!

I would personally also change up your exercises a bit. I would do 8, which would be Bench, Weighted Dips, Weighted Chins/Pullups, Rows, Squats, Deadlifts, Calve Raises and Shoulder Press. T-bars is my choice of row and seated barbell is my choice of shoulder press, but you do what ever feels best for you. You can split up these exercises in different ways. Day 1 should always be squats and day 2 always DLs. But you can go from here to either two fullbody workouts or a push/pull

push:
squat
bench
shoulder press
weighted dips

pull:
deadlift
row
weighted chins
calve raises (red headed stepchild :P)

or fullbody:

day1:
squat
bench
row
calve raises

day2:
deadlift
weighted dips
weighted chins
shoulder press

enjoy.

[USER54894846548948]

Anyone else?