Advice for cutting

[Duderguybro]

I’m just finishing up my first real bulk and am wondering what split more experienced bodybuilders prefer during a cut. I primarily used a 6 day push pull legs split for my bulk and have experienced solid results, but given that I’ll be in a deficit does it make sense to try and spur extra protein synthesis or just do enough to maintain? My first cut (before I had any appreciable muscle mass) consisted of a 5 day split, of which 2 days were leg days and cardio was performed 7 days a week for 2 sessions a day (probably not doing that again!). I plan to do a less drastic cut in terms of caloric deficit to try to maintain this hard earned muscle. Is there another split that you’d recommend?

[TAWS6]

It depends on how low you’re cutting. For a male cutting to 10-12 percent it’s not really an issue. I personally wouldn’t work out 6 days while cutting. Lifting 6 days a week always seemed counterproductive to me anyways.

[Tommy W.]

Keep using the program you had success with in your mass adding phase however you’ll usually have to lower volume some.

All that volume while in a cal surplus is great for building muscle but now you’re just trying to maintain muscle and all that volume can be a waste of time and energy and counterproductive to recovery not to mention driving up hunger.