Generally speaking, muscles consume a lot of energy and need a lot of nutritional support. To gain muscle, sugar, water and protein are indispensable, and an important prerequisite for gaining muscle is that calorie intake is greater than consumption. An important condition for reducing fat is that calorie consumption is greater than intake, and fat is the redundant energy reserve of human body. Reducing fat must be combined with exercise and diet control to make energy consumption greater than energy intake. So, in the real fat-reducing period, how to gain muscle in the state of energy loss? Obviously, the two are contradictory.
Special case of reducing fat and increasing muscle at the same time
But there are exceptions It is possible to lose fat and gain muscle at the same time in the following three situations:
1. People who are in the initial stage of fat loss or have a large body weight base.
For people with large weight base and serious lack of exercise at ordinary times, the initial stage of fat reduction. Due to the lack of exercise at ordinary times, when I first started exercising, my muscles were stimulated and slightly proliferated. At the beginning of fat loss, you may gain a pound or two of muscle, but this is essentially different from real muscle gain.
2. Athletes stop training for a period of time and resume training.
But if you are an athlete, after years of training, you have increased a certain amount of muscle mass and stopped training for a while and then resumed training. At this time, your muscles will quickly return to their previous levels. In this case, the total amount of fat will hardly change, because the increase of muscle mass is equivalent to achieving muscle gain and fat loss at the same time.
3. Use steroids and other hormones.
Hormones are powerful drugs, and small doses have great effects. Some hormones can make people lose weight and gain muscle at the same time, but steroid hormones are also very harmful. It is suggested that subjects should not try hormones easily, because it is not worth the loss to grow some muscles to damage their health.
So the conclusion is that it is almost impossible to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time if the subject is not in any of the above situations! Since it is difficult to gain muscle during fat loss, why do you need strength training? Although it is difficult to gain muscle during fat loss, strength training can keep muscle as much as possible, improve the basal metabolic rate of the human body, make fat loss more efficient, and it is not easy to rebound.