SurferX wrote:Par2 wrote:Just reading this article here:
Do people have experience of this happening? Bascially I could eat maintenance calories (on MANS), build muscle, and burn fat down to six pack stage? Or is there a percentage of body fat where your body would rather eat your muscle than anymore body fat?
You will not gain any weight if you eat maintenance calories, but if you eat MANS style and weight train you basically "convert" some of your current weight of fat into muscle by burning the fat off and gaining just enough muscle to compensate.
I was already pretty well trained at a low body fat level but after lowering my carbs and upping my protein while continuing to train I lost about 7-8 lbs of fat and put on that same 7-8 lbs in muscle. So while I weigh the same as I did, I look quite a bit different and really don't have much room to go any further in terms of fat loss. So now I'm upping my calories just a bit to start putting a few more pounds of muscle.
Yes, it's very hard at that level, and by hard I mean it just takes a long time and you need to keep at it without giving up. A typical male will need to get under 10% fat or so to see decent 6-pack definition unless your muscles are just genetically bulky and you worked your abs right they may be able to pop out a bit at higher levels, especially during periods of low water retention or after a workout when body fluids move away from your belly and into other parts of your body and your abs look extra awesome for a few hours.
Thanks for the info. So that confirms the theory. So to get the extra calories to bulk you're increasing your fat calories right? Not carbs?
