"Recomp" makes no sense. So your body will have these brilliant phsysiological changes if you eat at a slight deficit but not at maintenance or slightly above? It will just stay the same somehow?
It's like that "6-7 reps does nothing" pic
"Recomp" makes no sense.
>lose body fat by being in a deficit
>build muscle because the body with no training needs little stimulation to build muscle for the first time
Makes sense to me
And this won't happen if you eat at maintenance? Where will the energy for the muscle come from?
You want your body to burn bodyfat.
>where does the energy for the muscle come from
A person is supposed to have a certain amount of muscle before the body reaches a neutral state. Luckily for men, that neutral state is actually about a years worth of muscle.
This is what noob gains are. The body reaching its natural muscle equilibrium. The body doesn't need excess energy to build this muscle. The body knows how to build this 1 years worth of gains with minimal stimulation
The need for excess energy or bulking is a min max concept for achieving 100% muscle gained per calorie. A dyel noob does not need this level of min maxing
I'm still not hearing why this can't happen at maintenance. If you can build muscle on a deficit why can't you at maintenance?
You can. But you want to lose bodyfat at the same time. Which is why you do it on a deficit and not maintenance. If you eat at maintenance, then you won't lose bodyfat
So if you'll get heavier while eating at maintenance?
You'll look slim, since muscle is more dense than fat.
Sorry, I misunderstood. You can build muscle at maintenance, didn't mean to imply otherwise.
It comes from protein and 'energy'. Energy can be a calorie surplus but it doesn't necessarily have to be. Energy also exists on your body in the form of bodyfat. This is why recomps work if you've got a bit of extra bodyfat but not if you're lean
From the 25% bodyfat you are holding fricking moron
I'm talking about when at maintenance moron
I am losing fat and gaining muscle right now. My lifts are going up during my cut.
How many calories you cutting by?
Not counting but ballpark 500-1000 most days if i had to guess. Im just trying to walk a whole lot and do a lot of hot yoga. Getting a fitness tracker for xmas which will help but i’ve gotten by it with pure instinct and giving up alcohol so far.
How are you calculating this
>percent bodyfat
>102%
lmao wut
You’re reading the wrong line brainlet
My local nutrition shop has an In-Body Scanner they let anyone use for free. It saves my phone number and history and ive been using it to chart my progress. Shit’s cash
>My local nutrition shop
you mean a grocery store bro?
Fine, i meant supplement shop
There’s the machine I use on the right
the other anon already pointed it out, but I want to reiterate the fact that you were clearly looking at the wrong line, and are something of a massive moron for not being able to figure this out
embarrassing posting performance, anon. we all expected more from you... perhaps this makes us the fools.
You can't read bud
Reminder not to take israelitecette fanboys seriously. Literally the most delusional subhumans online next to trannies.
i mean, you’re tearing muscle fibers and when they are repaired they grow slightly bigger. you’re doing this while also in the process of fat burning because of the deficit. it’s possible, at least on steroids where enhanced nutrition partitioning makes more efficient use of the protein for recovery, it’s just not everyone is willing to stick around over the long-term to see the results
>"Recomp"
Should have started by giving your definition, so I could shit on you and say that you are wrong.
It's not too late.
What doesn't make any sense is using calories as a way to determine whether or not it's possible to gain muscle. The only thing that makes sense to consider is protein intake since that's what muscles are made from. You can leave carbs and fat at maintenance. Meanwhile you jack up the proteins. If your body needs more carbs it will convert some of the extra proteins not used in mps. Anything extra is oxidized in the liver and removed from your body with the rest of the waste. BTW, you do not gain fat if the excess intake is in the form of protein
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27807480/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24834017/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26778925/
If you're talking about pro body builders who are taking HGH+insulin you have to jack up the carbs. If not, then there is no reason to increase anything else.
Mine is going good. Was 115kg at my heaviest now I'm somewhere around 110kg doing mainly sets of 5x5 and walking, hiking and running. Belly is shrinking everything else is growing.