60-Day Cut

What is 60-Day Cut?

The 60-Day Cut is an eight-week fat-loss block for people who want a proper diet phase rather than a crash. Six days a week: three full-body lifting sessions to defend your muscle through the deficit, and three cardio sessions that expand week over week to keep the energy expenditure climbing as your body adapts. The lifting is built entirely on dumbbells, cables and machines — goblet squats, dumbbell bench, rows, reverse lunges, Bulgarian split squats — a deliberately different exercise pool from the barbell-based 28-Day Shred, so running the two back to back never feels like a rerun.

The three cardio days each ramp on their own schedule. A steady cycle grows from 25 to 60 minutes across the eight weeks, an incline walk from 30 to 65, and a rowing interval session from 15 to 36 minutes — with the intervals themselves getting harder, not just longer, as work periods stretch from 30 toward 45 seconds and the recoveries compress. Five easy minutes of steady rowing open and close every interval day. Like all of Durata's fat-loss challenges, it's a fixed-length program: eight weeks in, done, out.

Is 60-Day Cut right for you?

This is the middle step of the fat-loss track — the right length when you have a realistic amount of fat to lose and enough patience to lose it without starving. No barbell is required anywhere in the program, which makes it a natural fit for a commercial gym at peak hours or a well-equipped home setup. Six training days is a real commitment, though: if your week can't absorb that, run the shorter 28-day block instead. And the usual honesty applies — the sessions preserve muscle and burn some calories, but the deficit you hold in the kitchen is what actually gets you lean.

How progression works

Every lift follows double progression: same weight until all sets reach the ceiling of the rep range (mostly 10–15 here, higher-rep than a barbell program because dumbbell and machine work tolerates it), then a 2.5 kg bump and back to the floor of the range. Two misses at a weight triggers a 10% reset. The cardio increases are baked into each week's session, so there are no decisions to make mid-block. Pair it with a 300–500 kcal deficit and 1.6–2.2 g of protein per kg of bodyweight, and log the food — Durata's nutrition tracking sits alongside the workouts, and its logger auto-chains the rowing intervals so the timer runs the session for you.

Durata runs this progression for you — every session's weights are computed automatically from your training maxes and logged AMRAP sets.

60-Day Cut — every set, every session

Percentages are of your training max (TM). AMRAP = as many reps as possible on the final set.

60-Day Cut — common questions