Nah , I ' ve always tanked instantly when cutting , that ' s normal . The fact I ' ve maintained for the most part , and it was well into the cut before I stopped gaining makes me think it was a good move . And normally when my lifts go down it ' s because shit just feels heavier and I don ' t feel strong enough to move it , this time however it still feels light enough , I just don ' t feel like I can make the muscles fire for some reason . Plus it ' s only the heavier weights that are suffering , 7075 % still moves better than it ever has . When you hit 146 kg for 6 reps and then barely manage to grind through 154 once it ' s not strength loss that ' s the issue . I do think it will end up coming back after this deload week . I ' m at a point where I ' m either hitting the 531 reps or failing the set . The last time I did a rep on either of those sets was months and months agoThen you aren ' t following the program . When you get to the point where you are only getting 23 on your 1 day you are actually supposed to recalc a new training max and start again . Generally you should be aiming to beat the prescribed rep max by quite a bit , it ' s how you maintain progress consistently . It ' s also one of the main reasons I ' ve decided on adding Joker sets which I ' ll keep when I go back to bulking , when you are getting 7 reps on your 1 weight you end up not getting any practice at 90 % and I think that hinders your actual max ability , or at least for me the whole not being familiar with heavy weight make me perform a lot worse . FSL isn ' t such a big deal , I ' m mostly doing it as an experiment and using it to practice the movement and some other stuff like paused squats or speed work .