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Stronger Than Your Boyfriend

Q&A 103: Cutting, Supersets, nutrition tracking, home body scans, and coaching

April 22, 2025 • Barpath Fitness • Season 1 • Episode 232

Join our Stronger Than Your Boyfriend Facebook group to ask questions that we will address on the podcast!

Question 1: Any tips on cutting while maintaining muscle? How much do you cut back for and how long?

Question 2: What are your opinions on supersets?

Question 3: If you’re in a deficit, do you track your workout for the day to gain calories back in your “budget”? Would you do it one way for a fat loss phase versus another for a bulking phase?

Question 4: Are you able to speak to the quality and accuracy of at home body fat scans?

Question 5: Is in person personal training or remote coaching better?

Sources Cited:

Episode 120 Body Recomp - can you build muscle and lose body fat at the same time?

3 weeks to dialing in your nutrition

How to track your macros?

Episode 199 Fitness Coach vs Personal Trainer

Episode 48 How to Fire Your Trainer

Episode 142 How to Calculate Body Fat Percentage: Why Current Fitness Measurement Tools Suck