Cutting water during bodybuilding peak week is counterproductive, as muscles are 70% water and fluid restriction removes water proportionally from intracellular and extracellular spaces, leading to a flatter physique.

“think about a muscle is 70% water and in your native state you you keep more water inside your muscle cell than you do outside your muscle cell and you know this is just basic lat Lea's principle if you begin removing more fluid like via dtic or fluid — restriction or — sodium restriction well what happens well well sure you remove it from the subcutaneous layer but you're also going to remove it in the same proportion from the from the intracellular layer all you're going to do is just become flatter in the intravascular layal you get hypotensive”