Topic summary

Second pass at: Programming during a large energy deficit

Nutrition & Training › Resistance training DXA lean mass loss fatigue

This is a generated summary. It shows the 7 most-liked posts from a topic of 49, in their original order, with the accepted answer included where one exists. It is a reading aid and it will miss nuance — the full topic is the record.

IsaksenTL3Regular23 May 2026#1

Posting this under the heading it deserves: Second pass at: Programming during a large energy deficit Everything below is what sits behind that.

Two things I would like separated before anyone answers on Programming during a large energy, because they get bundled and then argued about as one thing.

The first is descriptive: what has actually been observed, by whom, and how. The second is causal: why. I am asking about the first only.

33 likes 2mo

e.ferreiraTL3Regular29 May 2026 · edited#6

Thank you — that answers what I came here to find out.

26 likes 2mo

b.jankowiakTL3Regular3 Jun 2026#12

I have no financial interest in anything named in this thread and I want to say so before I comment on Programming during a large energy, because it is the sort of subject where it matters.

28 likes 2mo

citation_indexTL2Member6 Jun 2026#16

Where training is new, the early gains are largely neural, which is why they can appear even during a deficit and do not indicate tissue change.

I keep a log of this specifically because memory is unreliable about it.

21 likes 2mo

j.solbergTL210 Jun 2026#21

Deload weeks matter more during a deficit than at maintenance because recovery is the limiting factor.

On reflection I would soften that slightly.

25 likes 2mo

s.stavrianosTL2Member16 Jun 2026#30

Post-weight-loss training: once weight loss is complete and energy deficit ends, training can shift to building again. The transition from preservation mode to building mode is real and worth planning.

26 likes 1mo

VPoulsenTL3Regular19 Jun 2026#34

This follows post #31 rather than contradicting it.

A resistance stimulus during a deficit is the other half of the lean-tissue argument, and the evidence for it is reasonably strong.

33 likes 1mo

Read the full topic (49 posts)

This topic was referenced in

About the Resistance training categoryNutrition & Training › Resistance training · 4 replies

Suggested topics

Topic	Participants	Replies	Views	Activity
Progressive overload when the scale is falling Nutrition & Training › Resistance training fatigue DXA lean mass loss Posting this under the heading it deserves: Progressive overload when the scale is falling Everything below is what sits behind that. Trying to establish the boundary conditions on progressive overload. The…	+4	8	14k	8mo
Realistic expectations for strength while losing weight quickly — does this still hold? Nutrition & Training › Resistance training DXA fatigue lean mass loss Solved Realistic expectations for strength while losing weight quickly — does this still hold? I have a specific reason for asking rather than idle curiosity, and the context is below. Working notes on Realistic…		2	11k	10mo
Two sessions a week versus four: what the evidence supports Nutrition & Training › Resistance training fatigue DXA lean mass loss Wiki On the subject in the title: Two sessions a week versus four: what the evidence supports Working notes rather than a conclusion. Reporting rather than asking, and the method is stated so the numbers mean…	+27	31	22k	20mo
Progressive overload when the scale is falling — one year on Nutrition & Training › Resistance training lean mass loss fatigue DXA Closed Progressive overload when the scale is falling — one year on Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. The question about Progressive overload that I actually want…	+152	167	6.6k	21mo
About the Resistance training category Nutrition & Training › Resistance training lean mass loss fatigue DXA Pinned Wiki Programming while losing weight quickly, realistic expectations, and recovery. This post is a community wiki: any member at trust level 3 or above can edit it, and every edit is recorded with its author and a…		4	40k	17d

Related topics — sharing the tags DXA, lean mass loss, fatigue

Topic	Participants	Replies	Views	Activity
Second pass at: Sodium, potassium and magnesium when intake drops Nutrition & Training › Hydration & electrolytes heart rate blood pressure fatigue Second pass at: Sodium, potassium and magnesium when intake drops Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. A hydration and intake question, with the figures, since…	+132	142	12k	22mo
Second pass at: Two scans six weeks apart on different machines: a cautionary tale Outcomes › Body composition DXA bioimpedance lean mass loss data table Second pass at: Two scans six weeks apart on different machines: a cautionary tale Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. A question about measurement precision…	+1	5	34k	8mo
Coming back to: The nausea timeline across the first four weeks, with a tabulated log Practice › Side effects constipation fatigue nausea delayed gastric emptying Wiki Posting this under the heading it deserves: The nausea timeline across the first four weeks, with a tabulated log Everything below is what sits behind that. Reading back through what has been written here…	+42	49	576	17mo
[2026 update] Whether protein timing matters at a large deficit Nutrition & Training › Protein & intake lean mass loss fatigue constipation micronutrients Whether protein timing matters at a large deficit — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. A follow-up question about Whether protein timing that I did not know to ask the first…	+4	8	46k	7mo
Progressive overload when the scale is falling Nutrition & Training › Resistance training fatigue DXA lean mass loss Posting this under the heading it deserves: Progressive overload when the scale is falling Everything below is what sits behind that. Trying to establish the boundary conditions on progressive overload. The…	+4	8	14k	8mo