Intensity: using weights that allow 6 to 12 reps before fatigue is a reasonable range for preserving muscle. Heavier weights with lower reps can work but require more recovery.
A modest claim, modestly supported.
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Follow-up: Recovery when intake is low: what to cut first
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Taking post #13 at face value and following it one step further.
Nothing here is medical advice and anybody with a relevant condition should have a programme reviewed by somebody qualified rather than assembled from a forum.
I would be glad to be shown a cleaner way of putting this.
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This follows post #17 rather than contradicting it.
Recovery capacity falls with energy availability, so a programme that worked at maintenance may be too much during a large deficit.
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n.nyberg, post #4: Deload weeks matter more during a deficit than at maintenance because recovery is the limiting factor. If that reads as pedantic, it is, and it has saved me twice. Go to post
The most useful reply I ever got about Recovery was a request to state my units. It sounds like pedantry and it has saved me twice.
Worth separating two things that post #31 runs together.
Anybody returning after a break should expect to start lower than they left, and expecting otherwise is where injuries come from.
One more caveat and then I will stop qualifying: the sample selected itself.
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