AbiBain wrote: » The muscle burns the fat that fulfills both of those things but you didn't actually answer my question.
AbiBain wrote: » Let me rephrase: Say you are losing weight because you are working to gaining muscle - could you in theory, if only once, gain as much weight in muscle as you lost from your excess fat?
KingRat79 wrote: » it is possible to to re-composition, that is to loose some fat and gain some muscle, but only under a some very limited circumstances, and to be honest unless you are taking a lot of steroids the amount of muscle you can gain is really fairly small amounts and isn't going to offset weight loss in any meaningful way.
AbiBain wrote: » KingRat79 wrote: » it is possible to to re-composition, that is to loose some fat and gain some muscle, but only under a some very limited circumstances, and to be honest unless you are taking a lot of steroids the amount of muscle you can gain is really fairly small amounts and isn't going to offset weight loss in any meaningful way. Thank you! I will stop telling people about this now as it sounds like they'd have to be pretty special to be experiencing it but I'm glad it is technically a thing.
Hornsby wrote: » To build muscle, you need a calorie surplus. To lose fat, you need a calorie deficit. You don't do both at the same time.
DedRepublic wrote: » Hornsby wrote: » To build muscle, you need a calorie surplus. To lose fat, you need a calorie deficit. You don't do both at the same time. Going to have to disagree with this...
avskk wrote: » I have a probably stupid question along these same lines (seriously typo'd "leans" at first). I understand that you can't build muscle at a deficit, and that strength training at a deficit is for preserving existing LBM, but what I want to know is... how do you get strength gains without mass gains? I know you DO -- I'm doing it myself -- but I am too dumb/tired/something to understand how that process actually works.