You Want to Build Muscle- But You’re Afraid to Gain Weight

I hear this so consistently from not only just my clients, but like so many women in general.

I want bigger glutes.

I want rounder shoulders.

The judges told me to grow.

I want more muscle.

I want to be jacked.

I want to improve my physique.

But then when it comes to actually getting those things, they don't wanna see the scale go up.

I don't want my waist to get bigger.

I don't want my clothes to fit tighter.

I don't want the scale to keep going up and I don't wanna lose my definition.

I don't wanna lose my abs.

And the thing is, like, I completely understand why we have this reaction, especially if you have spent a long time trying to get lean.

So what I typically see, and I know that this isn't everybody, like I'm just going to speak in a general sense for a moment, but a lot of people will come to me or will start their fitness journey overweight.

And the goal is to lose weight.

The goal is to get leaner.

It's not necessarily to build muscle or they might think like, oh, I want to have some curves, like I want to lose weight and add muscle.

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.

But we're seeing the finished product.

We're seeing years, not just months, years that they might have spent heavier, softer, less defined while they were actually building the muscle base that created that physique.

So today, I kind of want to talk more about what a growth phase actually looks like physically, psychologically, and from a training perspective.

And especially for my bodybuilding girls, I want to talk about why stage lean is can't become your new definition of normal.