The CUT

Let’s start here, my name is Bryson. I’ve been weight lifting for about 5 years. Gained some extra pounds over the last year. And finally deciding to cut.

This blog is going to be reflecting my slow.. tedious.. incremental progress on my various projects. I hope you enjoy and find inspiration in the day to day little tasks that over a notable period of time = success

I will start with well... where I am starting from. These updates will be focused on what I did. I hat I will do. My reasoning for why I do it. And rationale for the underlying principles. I’ll try to cite sources when I can, and if any viewers would like to know more information about anything I say. Please shout out! Ok, let’s get into it.

I am about 5’9”. My current weight is 168 lbs. I have been lifting weights for 5 years.
Focusing on strength/power and stamina. Based of my previous weight about a year and a half ago
Where I was extremely lean overestimating my body fat a bit. At around 8-9 percent. I was 145lbs.

Also using this chart, I also had a 28” waist at that time.

Using a very rough estimate, and plugging into the formula for LBM

LBM = bodyweight - fat weight (obviously)

Fat weight? How do I calculate that??

We’ll do what you can to figure out your bodyfat percentage, or the ball park of its range

I estimated 9% when at 145lb, 9% of 145 AKA (145 x 0.09) is 131.95 lbs.

And since I’ve been weight training, steadily since this rough measurement.

I’ll add 2 lbs of lean mass to this. So let’s roughly make it 134 lbs of LBM.

Great. Now at my weight of 168 lbs, and 134 lbs LBM, let’s see my current body fat percentage.

1 - (LBM/bodyweight) = bodyfat percent

1 - (134/168) = 0.20

Great I’m at ~20 percent bodyfat

Which looks about right