Sentences with phrase «muscle building phase»

Alternately, go into a muscle building phase if increasing lean mass is one of your goals.

Simply put: if I'm in a fat loss phase the diet days will have me in a calorie deficit, a muscle building phase will mean a calorie surplus and a maintenance phase will mean maintenance calorie intake.

3) Dieting for fat loss is a tedious process, and the more fat you gain during your muscle building phase, the longer you'll have to spend cutting later on.

Although some guys go with the opposite approach of «dirty bulking» and use their muscle building phase as an excuse to stuff themselves with huge amounts of food all day long, this is almost never the best approach for a few important reasons...

If you are not putting on enough lean muscle mass or are putting on too much fat during your muscle building phase.

In the most basic sense, during the muscle building phase, the muscles use the protein and amino acids repair themselves by increasing in the thickness and number of the fibers.

Simple... switch back into a muscle building phase and do everything in this guide all over again.

Well, most people end their muscle building phase when they have gained as much fat as they are willing to gain.

Once you've reached the above mentioned «I've gained as much excess fat as I'm going to allow» point, it's time to switch from a muscle building phase (where your goal was gaining muscle while keeping fat gain to a minimum) into a fat loss phase (where your goal will be to lose fat while maintaining all of the muscle you just built).

Whenever you switch from a muscle building phase into a fat loss phase or vice-versa, insert a 2 week maintenance phase where instead of being in a slight calorie surplus or a slight calorie deficit, you are just right in the middle at maintenance.

Your new goal in the gym is to keep everything exactly where it is at the end of the muscle building phase.

To do this you will keep everything nearly EXACTLY the same as it is during a muscle building phase, except with a few small changes: Here's how...

Then when you are at least somewhat lean, start your muscle building phase.

You switch from a muscle building phase into a fat loss phase.

So, I suggest making sure your muscle building phases last AT THE VERY LEAST 12 weeks.

You have to give each one (specifically the muscle building phase) time to actually work.

There are only 2 reasons for ending your muscle building phase / weight gain.

The best thing we can do is get somewhat lean, and then go into a muscle building phase.