AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
3min chapter
Episode #222: The Science of Losing Fat vs. Muscle
Barbell Medicine Podcast
The Importance of Protein in Muscle Mass Gain
If you were trying to predict the amount of muscle mass being gained, I would feel very confident in saying you're likely to gain more muscle mass if you're at maintenance or in a slight surplus. The downside of that is that people are like, Oh, it's just bulking season. Well, you also gain more fat mass. And so that may not be a trade off that you want as far as the amount of fat mass related to muscle mass that you gain. That ties into the variability we described with those overfeeding studies where you fed everybody the same surplus and you saw this huge range and differences of how much fat and lean mass people gained despite the same surplus.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode