This is also known
as being in a calorie surplus or hypocaloric.
Not exact matches
So, if one who has continued to eat the same amounts of food
as he did when he
was extremely active, they would find themselves
in a huge caloric
surplus, which means lots of unnecessary
calories per day, which
in turn would inevitably lead to fat gain.
If you
're eating
in a
calorie surplus but aren't generating a sufficient growth stimulus through your training plan, you'll inevitably end up gaining more body fat
as opposed to lean muscle.
As you can probably guess, the lower end
is most suitable to when you
're restricting your
calories for fat loss, and the higher end to when you
're in a
calorie surplus for maximum muscle gain.
As I have read the article you mentioned, it
's possible to lose fat while gaining muscle IF someone
is a new to weight lifting but that contradicts with the fact that you need to have
calorie surplus in order to build muscles?
If your goal
is weight loss and you begin drinking protein shakes
as supplements rather than meal replacements, you may rack up a
calorie surplus that will actually prevent you from slimming down, since many protein shakes
are high
in calories.
The simple truth
is that the animal - oriented agricultural system
as it has evolved over two centuries
in America makes a more efficient use of available land to provide essential, high - quality protein, with fewer
surplus calories, and at a lower cost, than any other system that has presently
been devised.
When your body has a caloric
surplus (ie more than what it will burn off
in the day), some of those
calories will
be stored
as fat.
And
in the end, some guys and gals have found that just
as restricting
calories for fat loss can
be slightly uncomfortable at times, eating a
surplus of
calories for weight gain can
be a bit of a grind
as well.
This
is known
as a caloric
surplus, and it forces the body to store these left over
calories in some form for later use.
However, remember that you still need to
be in a caloric
surplus, so don't use the workout
as a way to burn off all of the extra
calories.
In either case, if you don't know exactly how many
calories you
're utilizing for fuel, upkeep, reconstruction, etc., you
're better off running a
surplus of fat
calories than of sugar
calories:
As you mentioned,
calorie surplus will go into the fatty tissue.
As I detailed
in Season 2, an experiment
in which subjects consumed a caloric
surplus of 800
calories (3,360 kJ) for eight weeks gained an average of just 1.7 kg, and it
was fat - free mass (the good stuff like muscle, skin and water).