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A body recompsition is staying at or near the same weight but lowering your bodyfat percentage and increasing musclemass,
The goal is to lose fat and gain muscle at the exact same rate, making you the same weight but with more muscle and less fat
YOU NEED TO BE 18-21 percent bodyfat with low training experience for this to be effective to consider , and
i'd say less than 6 months of consistent lifting, and if u used to lift it doesn't count infact thats even better
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What will happen:
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Because your only in a small deficit, your eating JUST enough to lose weight, but JUST enough to gain muscle
The goal is to lose fat and gain muscle at the exact same rate, making you the same weight but with more muscle and less fat
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COMMON MISTAKES AND MISCONCEPTIONS:
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WHY I WOULDNT RECOMMEND IT:
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REASON #1:
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REASON #2:
How much faster is it than bulking and cutting, doing the math:
The goal is to lose fat and gain muscle at the exact same rate, making you the same weight but with more muscle and less fat
YOU NEED TO BE 18-21 percent bodyfat with low training experience for this to be effective to consider , and
i'd say less than 6 months of consistent lifting, and if u used to lift it doesn't count infact thats even better
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How does one start this process:
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lift on an optimal program(Train at or very close to faliure, 5-15 sets per muscle per week,
train each muscle 2-3x per week with atleast 48 hours of recovery volume
Eat high protein with good nutrition
And eat in a 200-300 calorie deficit
Be new to the gym or on gear(Recommended)
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lift on an optimal program(Train at or very close to faliure, 5-15 sets per muscle per week,
train each muscle 2-3x per week with atleast 48 hours of recovery volume
Eat high protein with good nutrition
And eat in a 200-300 calorie deficit
Be new to the gym or on gear(Recommended)
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What will happen:
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Because your only in a small deficit, your eating JUST enough to lose weight, but JUST enough to gain muscle
The goal is to lose fat and gain muscle at the exact same rate, making you the same weight but with more muscle and less fat
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COMMON MISTAKES AND MISCONCEPTIONS:
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1: Eating at maintence, EVEN most influencers say to do this
Eating at maintence will result in you gaining muscle without any fat, not losing fat
while you are technically lowering your bodyfat percentage slightly because your gaining muscle without fat,
the muscle mass you would need to gain to even lower your bodyfat percentage by like 2% requires like a decade of natural training, your basically staying the same bodyfat percentage.
For example, if your a beginner and 145lbs and skinnyfat 20%,and ate at maintence without losing fat, you would need to gain 95LBS of LEAN MUSCLE to get to 12% bodyfat,
EVEN WITH STEROIDS THATS LIKE IMPOSSIBLE UNLESS U HAVE ELITE GENETICS AND 20 YEARS of training, your basically staying the same
THIS IS A MISTAKE because you can just be in a deficit and lose that shit quickly.
Eating at maintence will result in you gaining muscle without any fat, not losing fat
while you are technically lowering your bodyfat percentage slightly because your gaining muscle without fat,
the muscle mass you would need to gain to even lower your bodyfat percentage by like 2% requires like a decade of natural training, your basically staying the same bodyfat percentage.
For example, if your a beginner and 145lbs and skinnyfat 20%,and ate at maintence without losing fat, you would need to gain 95LBS of LEAN MUSCLE to get to 12% bodyfat,
EVEN WITH STEROIDS THATS LIKE IMPOSSIBLE UNLESS U HAVE ELITE GENETICS AND 20 YEARS of training, your basically staying the same
THIS IS A MISTAKE because you can just be in a deficit and lose that shit quickly.
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WHY I WOULDNT RECOMMEND IT:
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REASON #1:
REASON 1: when you do this approach, your argueably slowing down your FATLOSS AND MUSCLEGROWTH
Losing fat happens alot faster then building muscle,
building muscle also requires a lot of calories and food to do, as it it litterally new tissue your putting on your body, your body is extremely resistant to putting on new muscle tissue, so even if you lift, its very hard to gain muscle below maintence or even at maintence
Losing FAT is very easy to do, going from a 200 calorie deficit to a 800 calorie deficit will make you lose 3x the fat with not much more side effects or muscleloss.
Building muscle and going from 200 calorie deficit to a 200 calorie surplus will result in a lot more gains over time
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SO WHEN YOU DO THIS APPROACH compared to normal lean bulking and cutting, it can be argued
your eating JUST too little to make gains and too much to see reasonable FATLOSS progress
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Because losing fat has the opposite needs for muscle growth, think about it
when your losing fat your body has such little food it has to use stored food, but when your trying to gain muscle you need to first give it stimulus to do so, then food,
THE LAST thing your body does is want to put on expensive muscle tissue(as muscle uses a lot of energy and requires calories), so what makes you think it would do so under subpar conditions.
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Losing fat happens alot faster then building muscle,
building muscle also requires a lot of calories and food to do, as it it litterally new tissue your putting on your body, your body is extremely resistant to putting on new muscle tissue, so even if you lift, its very hard to gain muscle below maintence or even at maintence
Losing FAT is very easy to do, going from a 200 calorie deficit to a 800 calorie deficit will make you lose 3x the fat with not much more side effects or muscleloss.
Building muscle and going from 200 calorie deficit to a 200 calorie surplus will result in a lot more gains over time
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SO WHEN YOU DO THIS APPROACH compared to normal lean bulking and cutting, it can be argued
your eating JUST too little to make gains and too much to see reasonable FATLOSS progress
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Because losing fat has the opposite needs for muscle growth, think about it
when your losing fat your body has such little food it has to use stored food, but when your trying to gain muscle you need to first give it stimulus to do so, then food,
THE LAST thing your body does is want to put on expensive muscle tissue(as muscle uses a lot of energy and requires calories), so what makes you think it would do so under subpar conditions.
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REASON #2:
Reason 2: Poor accuracy
Also, when your recomping you cant really accurately track 200-300 calories below maintence, like the FDA allows food products to be off by abit you would have to track for months and months and months which most of u lazy fucks cant do,
and if you walk too much or little, or your slightly off one week, you can be in a full fledged cut or a slurplus
and hard to track progress too
You can achieve the same result by doing a 6 week cut and then a 5 month bulk , rather than recomping for 8 months, and you can eat intuivitely for the lean bulk, and for the cut if you accidentally eat too much or low by like +/- 200 you'll still be in a deficit
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Also, when your recomping you cant really accurately track 200-300 calories below maintence, like the FDA allows food products to be off by abit you would have to track for months and months and months which most of u lazy fucks cant do,
and if you walk too much or little, or your slightly off one week, you can be in a full fledged cut or a slurplus
and hard to track progress too
You can achieve the same result by doing a 6 week cut and then a 5 month bulk , rather than recomping for 8 months, and you can eat intuivitely for the lean bulk, and for the cut if you accidentally eat too much or low by like +/- 200 you'll still be in a deficit
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How much faster is it than bulking and cutting, doing the math:
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How much faster is it than bulking and cutting, doing the math:
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Lets assume your 145lbs 20 percent bodyfat 5,9
To be at the exact same weight but 13.5 percent bodyfat, you would need to gain 10lbs of muscle and lose 10lbs of fat
Being in a 250 calorie deficit makes you lose 0.5lbs of fat per week
This means you'll lose that weight in 5 months
but the issue with this is that your unlikely to gain 10lbs of muscle, and even if you maintained muscle you'll still look just as lean
All the main AIS said you could gain on average 4-8lbs of muscle if you were brand new to lifting in that deficit.
this is under the goal
I just said "average male brand new to lifting optimized training and diet 145lb 20 percent bodyfat the only thing is he lifts in a slight deficit expected muscle gain over 5 months"
Compare it to cutting:
Lets say he does 1000 calorie deficit, losing 2lbs of mostly fat per week, and losing 1lb of muscle since ur not gonna lose muscle if ur new
If he is consistent, he can get to 13.5 percent bodyfat within 6 FUCKING weeks compared to nearly 6 months.
Now, with lean bulking, he could build that muscle twice as fast in the next 3 and a half months.
So essientally, your delaying muscle growth by 6 weeks to then gain more muscle in the long run bc you'll be in a slight slurplus
and you'll look better the whole time.
How much faster is it than bulking and cutting, doing the math:
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Lets assume your 145lbs 20 percent bodyfat 5,9
To be at the exact same weight but 13.5 percent bodyfat, you would need to gain 10lbs of muscle and lose 10lbs of fat
Being in a 250 calorie deficit makes you lose 0.5lbs of fat per week
This means you'll lose that weight in 5 months
but the issue with this is that your unlikely to gain 10lbs of muscle, and even if you maintained muscle you'll still look just as lean
All the main AIS said you could gain on average 4-8lbs of muscle if you were brand new to lifting in that deficit.
this is under the goal
I just said "average male brand new to lifting optimized training and diet 145lb 20 percent bodyfat the only thing is he lifts in a slight deficit expected muscle gain over 5 months"
Compare it to cutting:
Lets say he does 1000 calorie deficit, losing 2lbs of mostly fat per week, and losing 1lb of muscle since ur not gonna lose muscle if ur new
If he is consistent, he can get to 13.5 percent bodyfat within 6 FUCKING weeks compared to nearly 6 months.
Now, with lean bulking, he could build that muscle twice as fast in the next 3 and a half months.
So essientally, your delaying muscle growth by 6 weeks to then gain more muscle in the long run bc you'll be in a slight slurplus
and you'll look better the whole time.
Who I would recommend it to
1: A person on gear
2: A person who used to train and built up even a decent amount of muscle, like even just athletic people
3: black people
4: people who don't wanna be complicated and just go from a one way path from skinnyfat to lean
1: A person on gear
2: A person who used to train and built up even a decent amount of muscle, like even just athletic people
3: black people
4: people who don't wanna be complicated and just go from a one way path from skinnyfat to lean
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