Burning more fat

[Baby Wifey]

I've been lifting seriously for over a year now and I am still recomping (gaining muscle while losing fat simultaneously). True, It easier to succeed in doing both when you are a beginner, but It is very possible to do both simultaneously at any time of your life without PHs or steroids, as long as you are lifting correctly and eating properly. It definitely takes more time than focusing on one or the other, but it can be done.

[muad33b]

Originally Posted by Baby Wifey

I've been lifting seriously for over a year now and I am still recomping (gaining muscle while losing fat simultaneously). True, It easier to succeed in doing both when you are a beginner, but It is very possible to do both simultaneously at any time of your life without PHs or steroids, as long as you are lifting correctly and eating properly. It definitely takes more time than focusing on one or the other, but it can be done.

I still think that your advice here is misplaced. Just because you've been lifting for a year doesn't mean you're outside of the "newbie gains" catagory... but even if you are... if you are truely recomping (and I might challange how you know that you're gaining lean body mass while lossing fat, as the method of measure has a lot to do with your perception here - looking more musclular is not the same as gaining muscle mass) by eating roughly maintenance calories (vs. bulking one week, then cutting the next say) you're not loosing 2lbs of bodyfat and gaining 2lbs of muscle in one week.... or 1/1 for that matter... first off even on a bulk, if you're "natural" you're not gaining 1lb of muscle a week (same exceptions as badsanta and I stated above)... nevermind while loosing a pound of fat.... and if you're able to truely loose 1 lb of fat in a week while putting on muscle, you're not going to put on the same "weight" of muscle as you've lost in fat. Which means the primary goal is fat loss not muscle gain.

It's quite simple really... fat loss is catabolic... muscle gain is anabolic. Outside of the 3 exceptions badsanta and I have stated, you'd have to be doing some very fancy dieting and training (CKD, lactic acid [read: GH] training, etc... D_'s stuff is based on this) to truely "recomp"... and telling someone who's trying to loose fat to not use the scale as a benchmark as "muscle weighs more then fat" and "you can gain muscle while loosing fat" is basically misleading. Fat loss requires a caloric defecit; muscle gain requires a caloric surplus. My point here is that if the OP is trying to loose fat and the scale doesn't go down for a week, he needs to adjust his diet/training, not think "whoohoo, I just gained 2 lbs of muscle"... that's foolish thinking.