muscle hypertrophy

Yeah.

Like the weight loss or the muscle gain.

Um, what else have I seen?

I think motivation is, is fleeting and so that's where like the habits that you build, like for Kayla and I were like, let's get these habits established while we have their attention so that then when the motivation starts to wane a little bit, it's like well, but wait, now is when you lean into those habits that you've created-

Like, our values of, like, borderline zero relationship.

So let me ask some kind of rapid-fire questions on this point, the relationship between total testosterone and muscle growth.

And we're, we're talking men at this point.

Let's not piss off the entire internet.

Perfect.

Thank you.

He and I are, 10 weeks later, are gonna have the same muscle growth-

Amazing

Again, this is just the very beginning.

But the particular combination of weight loss and muscle gain and strength gain, and we're not talking about turning into bodybuilders or the Incredible Hulk or something.

We're talking about being the best version of yourself.

So imagine you worked really hard for months and months and months to get your summer beach body, the best version of yourself that you could be.

So is this just to prevent muscle loss or can you do it separately with a myostatin and an active inhibitor to increase like results of weightlifting or bodybuilding?

Oh, yeah.

Well, it's going to be dose dependent, but what's clear is that you get muscle gain.

You get increase in muscle size and strength with these myostatin and activin inhibitors.

But really, like you have to pursue one goal at a time.

So you spend all of this time trying to get smaller, trying to get leaner, trying to lose weight and But then eventually, you have to decide what goal are you actually pursuing and what do you actually want your physique to look like? Because maintaining the leanest version of your body indefinitely and maximizing muscle growth, those are competing goals.

You can't do both.

You To be quite honest, I think that social media has really screwed up our expectations because we're constantly seeing women in the fitness space or influencers who are really lean and and muscular.

You've Now you're asking your body for, we'll call it like more expensive adaptation.

So when you've been training really seriously for like five, six, seven years, and you tell me, I just want to recomp for the next year.

My question is, what are we actually aiming for? Like, what are you optimizing for? Because if your number one goal is going to be having significant muscle growth, then Eventually, giving your body enough energy and enough recovery makes a lot more sense than trying to diet off every ounce of fat that you're gaining along the way.

So essentially what I'm trying to get at is like, yes, body recomposition is possible, but it is very difficult for somebody who already has put in the time and effort and energy into building some muscle.

Section 3.

If your goal is muscle growth.

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Now let's talk about building muscle.

If muscle growth is your main goal, many people can make excellent progress training around 3-5 days per week.

But here's something more important than simply counting workout days.

How much quality training are you doing? For example, training four days a week with a well-designed program could be more productive than training six days a week with poor recovery and random exercises.