I have been trying to lean down for 8 months now, I am 5'10'' 185lbs about 15% BF (not 100% sure on exact %) and am trying to get down to about 9 or 10% for the summer. I am eating 2.300 calories, 180-190 grams of protein, 64 grams of fat, and 165-215 grams of carbs (depending on my rest day and if I did cardio). I am currently doing a 3 day split being Chest/Bis/Tris, Back/Shoulder/Traps, and Legs. I train each group twice a week and train the muscles in the order listed. I do 4-5 workouts for each muscle group with a burnout after, I do about 30-40 secs of rest between sets. I know you aren't supposed to see much gains if any at all while leaning down, I feel as though I have seen some strength and size gains in my arms and back, however my chest seems to being staying the same or even getting weaker. For example, I will try 4 sets of 8 on bench and get 7 or 8 on the first set, but then each following set drops by one or two reps each time or I have to lower the weight for the last set sometimes. I not sure why this is happening. I am trying to not totally trash my body in my workouts because I do play college baseball and am in season so I need to be able to perform in practices and games. I was planning on trying the cheat and recover workout after the season but am thinking about starting it now, as I have been lifting for 5 years and I feel like my body will respond well and will be able to still recover for baseball, it might also be time for a routine switch as I have been doing the same split for about 4 or 5 months. I am not sure if I need to change my calorie/macros, my workout, or something else? Sorry for the long message, I just wanted to lay out all of the info.

Well you should normally not try to get bigger or stronger when you are leaning out. If you try to do that you will overload your body and because you dont eat enough you will not be able to recover. Doing this may lead to you losing muscle. It is also important to have rest weeks and/or deload weeks so make sure you use that.

You may be very able to recover from baseball. But it still requires a lot of calories, those calories cant go to recovering you from baseball AND making you stronger AND recovering your muscles from your workouts. This is why it is important to be carefull with not training to much while cutting.