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@ayla17 If the same person with the same caloric expenditure eats the same amount of calories, they will weigh the same. If you're asking will they build as much muscle? No, they won't. Will they have the same health markers? No, they won't (providing that they were working out to build muscle...

@ayla17 Because of the fewer calories you would eat.

@littlesparrow1 Your mileage may vary, but in my experience, that’s plenty to make progress. You can always experiment with a little less or more and see how you like it, but as long as you’re progressing on your lifts with the same technique you’re likely on the right track.

@littlesparrow1 I suggest a range of: "as few as it takes to make progress on your lifts" all the way through "as many as you want to do and are still able to recover from". There's a lot of problems with that question though. How are we counting volume? Are we including indirect sets (like...

@littlesparrow1 Biceps and triceps are different muscles with their own local recovery. As far as maximum set volumes, as far as I’m aware they haven’t found an upper limit yet. That doesn’t mean you should do as many as possible though. Do enough that allows you to make solid progress and...

@setst777 Unless you are specifically having an issue with recovery in your rear delts, I have a hard time believing that removing any amount of rear delt isolation volume is going to improve your recovery ability to any significant degree. Rear delt work just isn't that fatiguing (side note: I...

@vergel It’ll become more difficult for sure, but it’s auto regulated so it shouldn’t get too bad. If it does start to feel overly exhausting, keep in mind that you’re in a deficit and consider lowering the sets (or allowing yourself some additional carbs before the workout). It’s a good program...

@vergel You’re getting plenty of protein. 9 kgs is a lot in 51 days, but if you’re beating the amrap targets in that program on a consistent basis, you’re doing just fine. I think I would die running that program on 1400-1600 calories, so color me impressed. Keep it up.

@rlma3355 Definitely start lifting. Potentially increase calories if you feel like you need to, but a 500 calorie deficit isn’t too crazy to maintain.

@psalms91forme There’s not enough information to answer this question. On average, how much protein do you get in a day? What is your bodyweight?

@entropy82 Do you have a link to the study? It would be interesting to know the training protocol of the participants in the study. It would make sense for that length of time if they were training with 15-20 hard sets of chest on day 1, but I’m very skeptical that at 5 hard sets they wouldn’t...

@mdhess I’m an every other day lifter, so I’ll just pick up where I left off. If you’re in a program that has predetermined percentages of your 1rm, I’d probably do the previous week again, or just rest until the weekday I missed (with some additional cardio days thrown in… maybe some speed work...