It's generally recommended to:
- do heavy resistance training
- losing fat at the rate of 0.5-1% of a body weight a week
- do it for 8-12 weeks
- (critical) after which to have a maintenance phase with a duration of 2/3-1 length of the dieting phase
- after that can do another dieting phase again.
- repeat as many times as needed.
- if wishes to build muscle/bulk, should do it 4 times slower than dieting. So 250g-1kg weight gain a month.
Sure, I get that, and I responded in the context of my original "I'm going to throw out anecdata" note. In that spirit:
I've generally gone longer than 8-12 weeks, but not by much -- longest is probably 16 weeks?
I've definitely lost more than 1% per week. I don't graph it, but I think I'm hovering in the 1% - 1.5% range.
I'm curious about the maintenance phase and strength aspects -- I'm not interested in bulk, just strength.
It's generally recommended to:
- do heavy resistance training
- losing fat at the rate of 0.5-1% of a body weight a week
- do it for 8-12 weeks
- (critical) after which to have a maintenance phase with a duration of 2/3-1 length of the dieting phase
- after that can do another dieting phase again.
- repeat as many times as needed.
- if wishes to build muscle/bulk, should do it 4 times slower than dieting. So 250g-1kg weight gain a month.