Why You Can’t Get Lean While Getting Big and Strong
Increasing muscle density and size is what makes you big and strong. So to get big and strong, you need to pack on more muscle.
But here’s the rub. Muscle is calorically expensive. It requires a lot of energy to create. To create that new muscle, you need to consume more calories than you’re expending. How much more? More than you probably think.
The biggest mistake most men make when they set down the path of gainz is that they eat the same amount of food they were eating before they were training. Intense weight training puts a lot of stress on the body. To fully recover, you need to provide your body the fuel to do so. That means you need a sufficient amount of calories that come from protein, carbs, and fat.
If you train and provide your body with enough calories, muscle mass and strength will increase.
But you’re also going to put on some body fat.
I’m sorry to say so, but sadly it’s true.
There’s no escaping that fact. Some of those excess calories you’re consuming for the production of muscle will be stored as fat. That’s just how your body operates.
Why You Can’t Get Big and Strong While Getting Lean
To get ripped, lean, shredded, etc. you need to shed body fat.
Shedding body fat requires you to consume fewer calories than you’re expending so that your body uses your fat stores for energy.
But here’s the rub: just as you can’t put on muscle mass without putting on some body fat, you can’t reduce body fat without reducing some muscle mass.
When you’re in a caloric deficit, your body not only uses fat for energy, it also breaks down muscle tissue for the nutrients it needs to keep your physiological systems running. As muscle tissue cannibalizes, muscle mass and strength go down.
This is why you can’t get big and strong while you’re trying to get lean. Getting big and strong requires excess calories, while getting lean requires a caloric deficit.
You’ve got to pick a goal at the exclusion of the other.
(ArtOfManliness.com)
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