Cutting and maintaining strength

Has anyone successfully cut and maintained strength or had only minimal strength losses?  If so, what diet strategy did you use?

No but I train natural, I have friends who managed it who dont train naturally.

It's easy to maintain lifts in the 1-5 rep range.  This rep-range is more to do with neural adaptation than hypertrophy, a bit of both.
 
Where as lifts in the general range of 8-12 reps are hypertrophy.  Those lifts will most likely suffer to a degree.
 
But neurostrength shouldn't suffer assuming your calorie deficit isn't so great that you lose too much lbm.  Infact it would by theory be possible to increase strength in the neurostrength rep range while cutting, but not likely to be noticeable.
 
But for me as long as I keep my carbs at a decent level while I'm at a deficit my strength comes to a complete standstill.  Doesn't regress much (I'm fairly weak anyway), if I dropped my carbs low it's a whole other story in my case.

I agree with Liddy, if bulking or using gear go for 6-12 reps for hypertrophy, when cutting or coming off the gear go to a 3-5 rep range to try and maintain most of your gains and strength. This is also a good physiological boost as you will be lifting heavier weights as you have dropped your rep range. 

i have and im not on gear or anything
 
i keep using the weight as if i was bulking and i would add 2 reps a week and im actually lifting heavier than i was
 
my diet is high protien,low stachy carb,high fat(efa) 2100-2400 cals 2000cals on non training day the only source of carb's i have are 90%from veg 10% from oats if i make a protien bar
also very low suger about 10g max

Yeah, Ive had minimal strength losses on cutting diets, in my upper body lifts..........Ive found my Squat weights reduce as My bodyfat comes down........this may in part be due to mild overtraining of Quads / Hams and Glutes due to cardio........Legs bear the brunt of it!
 
I think if Someone is Natural, or like Myself, does mild cutting cycles to get ripped, and the rest of the time trains without PEDs....maintaining strength, as long as the diet is not too low in calories, or the desired fat loss is done in a realistic timeframe, there shouldnt be much if any strength loss.....
However, If someone, Offseason is doing a Heavy Oral-Test Cycle, and then Pre-Contest / Cutting Diet, switches to cutting compounds, theres going to be a loss of strength as water retention is reduced......
 
IMO, going below 6 reps or even 8 for those of Us who are SOLELY training for Appearance isnt much Use, as BBing is about feeling the muscles contract during lifts, which is pretty much impossible with the 1-3 rep range, and difficult with the 4-6 range.......
 

i did during my last prep
 
used carb back loading