Oct 18, 2026 · 6 min · 7 segments
In this episode, I cover how losing body fat and getting leaner will actually make you look bigger and more jacked than smaller and skinny. A great listen if you're a guy that worries about being a…
Chris WrightHost
The way I will explain this to you guys is there is a big difference between losing weight and losing body fat and improving your body composition.
If you just lose weight and there is no real focus of where that is coming from, you are going to look skinny because you're gonna lose lean mass, muscle, you might lose some fat as well, but overall the changes, they don't look that great because you maybe do just look a little bit skinny and more frail.
And a lot of men do this and they have this very bad misconception But being at a certain weight is going to make them look ill because they might have crash dieted in the past.
They might work with an inexperienced coach or fitness professional that wasn't experienced on actually getting them to lose weight correctly.
They've not liked how they've looked and they've got this real issue of getting to that weight.
The difference of doing this correctly, guys, and actually improving your body composition is that when you lose weight, you're going to just lose fat.
So you're gonna lose the fat around your stomach, the fat maybe around your chest, around your love handles.
You're gonna lose those areas and your level of muscle mass as a result, is going to increase because the percentage of muscle will be higher compared to the fat percentage because the fat percentage is going to drop.
The way I will explain this to you guys is there is a big difference between losing weight and losing body fat and improving your body composition.
If you just lose weight and there is no real focus of where that is coming from, you are going to look skinny because you're gonna lose lean mass, muscle, you might lose some fat as well, but overall the changes, they don't look that great because you maybe do just look a little bit skinny and more frail.
And a lot of men do this and they have this very bad misconception But being at a certain weight is going to make them look ill because they might have crash dieted in the past.
They might work with an inexperienced coach or fitness professional that wasn't experienced on actually getting them to lose weight correctly.
They've not liked how they've looked and they've got this real issue of getting to that weight.
The difference of doing this correctly, guys, and actually improving your body composition is that when you lose weight, you're going to just lose fat.
So you're gonna lose the fat around your stomach, the fat maybe around your chest, around your love handles.
You're gonna lose those areas and your level of muscle mass as a result, is going to increase because the percentage of muscle will be higher compared to the fat percentage because the fat percentage is going to drop.
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