Extending cruise while dieting

[Scott Stevenson]

Hey guys, new to the forum and just started the program and love it so far. I've been trying to read as much as I can but had a question that I haven't seen answered directly..forgive me if it has been.

I'll try not to be too long winded...Before officially starting while I was dieting I had taken pieces of the program and applied them to my training so I already know that training this way (or starting the program at least) while dieting hard isn't the best thing for me personally. My question is lets say I plan to do a 4 week mini diet at some point in the future where the first two weeks would be an intensive cruise already built in to the program. Would it be advised to maybe continue the cruise another two weeks if calories are low and cardio high? I tend to go pretty low during these phases to drop fat fast to put myself in a position to rebound and trying to grow again. So for example right now it would be..

6 week blast --> 2 week cruise
6 week blast --> 4 week cruise while dieting hard
6 week blast --> 2 week cruise

Hope this question is easy to understand and I did a decent job getting the point across

Sure, you could do that and probably do a nice job of holding muscle mass / strength, I'd bet.

A Few thoughts:

Your blasts won't always last 6 weeks - duration is auto regulated.

You might cut the Blast before your mini-diet a bit short in terms of duration, so you don't go into the dieting prolonged cruise with compromised recovery. (Maybe if it WERE to be a 6 week Blast, as your best guess, make it a 4 week blast.)

I'd then probably structure the 4 week cruise as a 3d/wk training alternating between Day 3 and Day 4 of the program (Muscle Rounds), and NOT making the last ⅓ of the IC non-training), but rather taking a short break (just skip the last of what would be 12 workouts), before firing into the next Blast.

-S