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SNR #78: Greg Nuckols - "Bulking", Recovery & How Stress Affects Your Gains

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How to Gain Weight for Strength Athletes

Greg: There's a lot of I don't know what I'll call it maybe old school cliches in some of the strength sports like uh mass moves mass. Most people find there's a tipping point where they can get down to a certain body fat percentage and still feel good their strength isn't affected at all, he says. In terms of just like dirty bulking and trying to gain weight as fast as possible that's wrong headed for a few different reasons one is you're not going to gain as much muscle that way because you can't run your bulk for quite as long. The chronic low grade inflammation associated with obesity actually decreases anabolic and increases catabolic signaling in

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