How do wheelchair bodybuilders cut?

[Exilus]

I mean yeah they can watch their diet but how can they cut to competitive BF without their legs? ive seen some videos of those perfect examples of determination and will power and am curious as how they do it?

[HawaiianPride.]

Swimming, rowing, wheelchair racing, speedbags, ect.

[Ishallnocheatmyself]

swimming o,0?

[HawaiianPride.]

Yeah, swimming. It's about twice as hard using just your upper body. Great cardiovascular/endurance training right there.

Try staying a float or swimming not using your legs, same deal..

[Ishallnocheatmyself]

I suck at swimming and usually how i do it is like sooooort of use my legs and all upper body but pure dead weight htats impressive

[joe293]

There was no cardio before the early 80's. Arnold, Zane, Coe, Columbo etc etc. These guys didn't do cardio, just trained their asses off and ate less.

Ali Amini who is a contest guru in the gulf region started studying his athletes and their cardio habits. He discovered they were getting too stringy and losing some size. He cut the cardio and some food and they came in full and shredded.
Chris Aceto has a huge thread on BB dot com that is simply about the evils of cardio precontest. He says it's less effective at burning fat than many people think and causes a great deal of muscle loss (catabolic). He says guys should be training much harder and eating smaller meals.There is a trend in bodybuilding these days towards less cardio and better diets.

[1981]

Very low carb diets, with some type of cardio and fat burners.

[rhoads90]

determination prob

[silvex]

Low carb diets or carb cycling, rowing/swimming