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The Sustainable Self-Development Podcast
How To Bulk With NO Fat - Gain - The Truth
Jul 9, 2021
Can you actually bulk without gaining any body-fat? The podcast explores the challenges of lean bulking and gaining muscle without fat-gain. It discusses the difficulties of precise calorie control, tracking weight gain and muscle growth, and the non-linear nature of bulking and fat gain. The necessity of bulking for muscle growth is also explored.
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- Achieving a 100% lean bulk without any body fat is theoretically possible, but exceedingly rare in practice due to challenges in controlling calorie surplus and weight gain.
- Muscle growth is a non-linear process with varying calorie requirements, making it difficult to control precise calorie surplus based on weight gain alone.
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The Difficulty of Achieving a Perfectly Lean Bulk
Achieving a 100% lean bulk, where muscle mass is gained without any body fat, is theoretically possible. However, in practice, it is exceedingly rare to achieve a lean bulk without any fat gain. Despite being conservative and meticulous with diet and tracking, there are several factors that make it challenging to precisely control calorie surplus and weight gain. Variations in daily energy expenditure, inaccuracies in food labels, bodily fluctuations (like water retention and glycogen storage), and the non-linear nature of muscle growth contribute to this difficulty.
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