Yeah we need to have a talk about how our internal stereotypes about stuff like "power" don't have much to do with human health or functioning Continuing to add more muscle without fat is like adding more cylinders to an engine and shrinking the gas in the tankhttps://twitter.com/GGarethwilson/status/1366320305963077632 …
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That look is so hard to achieve because your body actively fights it When you lose weight, you *lose muscle first before fat* -- because muscle is constantly burning calories while you have it so when your body is in calorie deficit it's trying to cut its losses
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Is this true regardless what body fat percentage you start from? Like, sticking with your engine analogy, if you have a Corolla engine’s worth of muscle in a big rig with a 150 gallon fuel tank, adding cylinders to the engine and shrinking the fuel capacity would be *fine*.
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(I’m not asserting anything about what the body actually does, I truly don’t know. But … while difficult, it is *possible* … at least for some people … to lose weight & gain muscle. Which seems proof that preferentially losing muscle before fat must not be universally true.)
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It requires training (telling your body that it needs to put on muscle because it's being used) It's two different processes that go against each other - subtracting total mass + gaining muscle mass
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