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Ep. #970: The Best of Muscle For Life: Natural Bodybuilding, Training After a Break, & Productivity Tips

Muscle for Life with Mike Matthews

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The Effects of Reverse Diet on Muscle Growth

When we observe people who return to normal eating behavior and they return to similar body fat levels to what they were pre-contest diet, all these values return to baseline. The position you're in when you are shredded is the exact opposite of what's useful for growing muscle mass. So by doing a reverse diet on that more extreme version or take six weeks to get out of a deficit...you could spend four months being in a state where at best you're not losing muscle and maybe gaining some fullness ... but certainly you're not growing any new muscle.

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