I haven't seen anything that indicates you cannot put your body in an anabolic state and then catabolic state in very short periods of time. I'm guessing that significant fat loss doesn't start until the glycogen levels are down, and the body won't recognise the conditions of caloric surplus until glycogen levels & amino acid pools are topped up - so trying to cycle over a few days may well just be 'wheel spinning' and doing little more than emptying & refilling the short-term storage. There is going to be a lower limit on how short the cycles can be, because the liver buffers something like a day's worth of food and the muscles store a couple of day's worth of glycogen.
There is probably a point of diminishing returns for the length of a cut, because the metabolism responds to sustained caloric restriction by downregulating - which suggests that two cutting cycles of 4 weeks (with a rest in the middle to bring the metabolism back up to speed) should be more effective than one cycle of 8 weeks.īulking cycles also probably reach diminishing returns, because above a certain level of bodyfat, your testosterone & insulin sensitivity both start getting compromised. I've always thought that the 'traditional' bulking D& cutting cycles of a few months are more driven by competitive schedules (and possibly steroid cycles) than what's optimum. Also the idea of spending the next 2 months on a diet is my personal idea of hell.
It's of interest to me because I'm regularly performing on stage, and my act relies on me being quite lean, so I simply don't have the luxury of spending 4 months gaining 20lb. I've asked exactly the same question here & on another forum, and got nothing useful whatsoever.
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