subject: There EXISTS A Means For The Normal Person To Build Muscle And Reduce Weight At The Same Time [print this page] There DOES Exist A Method For The Normal Person To Grow Muscle And Loose Fat At The Same Time
The Solution: You will need to alter your "temporary viewpoint!"
Typically nutritionists and health and fitness pros have only viewed calorie balance in terms of 24 hour periods. At midnight, you could tally up the calories like a shopkeeper closing out his register, and if the balance were positive, you'd say you were in a very surplus of waking time. If the balance were negative, you'd say you were inside a deficit for the day.
But it is totally possible that you could pass through periods of "within-day" surplus where you were in a highly anabolic state (for example, you consume the biggest, highest carb meal of the day after your workout), and you were in a very deficit the entire content of the day.
On top of that, exercise changes everything. certain types of training will alter your hormones and physiological response to the method that you handle calories and nutrients.
If you did intense body building exercise, and you timed your nutrient intake just right, isn't it possible that you might grow a small amount of muscle during those anabolic hours, while losing fat the entire content of the day? Granted it might only be grams or ounces - but what if you kept that up for a week? A month? Three months?
As you pan out and look at the bigger picture, what if most days of the week you are in a deficit for the entire day, and on some days of the week you had been in a surplus? If so, then isn't it feasible that over the course of the week, you'd have a small net develop of muscle and loss of body fat as a result of the caloric fluctuation?
These within-day and within-week phases are what I consider in my new body transformation system as nutritional microcycles and mesocycles. If you also had a primary goal with a longer term focus of several months, say 12 weeks or 16 weeks, that would be a nutritional macrocycle.
What I've just described is nutritional periodization. Some people it is known as cyclical dieting. It's where you manipulate your calories (primarily by fluctuating carbohydrate intake, hence "carb cycling") in order to intentionally zig zag your way through periods of surplus and deficit.
The end result: muscle develop and fat loss during the same time period!
I know that somebody out there is having a hissy fit because I've only talked about calories: deficits and surpluses. Rightfully so. Calories matter but there's more to it than calories - most importantly, hormones and "nutrient partitioning."
If you're in a calorie deficit you are going to pull energy from your body. The question is: From WHERE? If your hormones are out of whack because you're eating crap and you're living an unhealthy lifestyle, you could lose more muscle than fat in a deficit and build almost pure fat, not muscle, in a surplus!
However Let's say you can manipulate within day energy balance, use nutritional periodization AND control your hormones with food and lifestyle strategies?
At this point we are seeing how concurrent muscle develop and fat loss are starting to look possible!
Make no mistake - concurrent muscle build and fat loss is really a difficult goal to achieve. It's the "Holy Grail of Exercise Goals." The good news: difficult does not mean impossible. Or as George Santayana said, "The difficult is that which can be done immediately, the impossible, that which takes a little longer."
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In my new system, you'll hear all the details about nutritional periodization, cyclical dieting, hormonal manipulation, within day energy balance, nutrient partitioning, AND the every one of the X factors, including the 5 "X2-Factors" - which are the keys to gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time.
You'll also get my new "TNB" training system, which was originally published as a workout in Men's Exercise magazine. Then I expanded it into a total system that has never been seen before except in my member's only inner circle.
My new free report that you can download now in MP3 and PDF (transcript) is available for the limited time this week over at The Ultimate goal website. It's a great introduction to the system and you'll pick up some very nice tips just from this free report alone.
