Build Muscle or lose the fat ?

sijomial

Nice selective response!
Yes thanks I do know the difference between CNS strength gains and muscle mass gains. As I've been training for longer than you have been alive I have picked up a few snippets of knowledge along the way.

As I don't know you, you also don't know me.

Nice selective quote from Lyle as well.
Just for fun here's another selective quote "Now, when I was younger and only thought I knew what I was talking about, I would often say that the above (talking about recomposition) was impossible to accomplish. In hindsight, impossible was a bit too strong of a term; clearly it’s not impossible as it does happen"
http://bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/adding-muscle-while-losing-fat-qa.html/ It's a good article and worth people reading.

And a nice strawman argument as well - did I say I was adding considerable muscle? No - but again (if you missed it) that isn't my goal. I actually said slow and steady - do you doubt that's possible too?

As for context. Agree totally with you about context - which is why I hate blanket statements. The context for you is completely different for the context for me for example, I'm not a bodybuilder so your body building quote is irrelevant to me but may be relevant to you.

So cut/bulk cycles for you (being both lean and muscular) would be essential or at least optimal, as would being on point with your nutrition. For me bulking would be a really bad choice - compromising my sporting performance and the ratio of fat gain to muscle gain would be really poor, a function of both age and training years.

I have no problem with recommending cut/bulk to people who would benefit from it but it's not the only choice - it would be the wrong choice for me as recomp would be he wrong choice for you.

sexynessa77

I'm 5'4 weigh 127 and Female. Not sure how much fb I have but I think I'm around 20/22% fat. I did the numbers on the iifym calculator and got

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lisaw19855

sjohnny wrote: »

tarheelboy wrote: »

Ok so I am 43 years old, 5'11" tall, 207 pounds with probably 30% BF. I have lost 8 pounds in 26 days on my way to losing 30. Is there a benefit to lifting weights while I am cutting calories to lose weight or lose the weight I want and then do the surplus/deficit cycles?

Lifting weights while cutting will assist in retaining lean mass so more of your weight loss will be from fat. You can also gain strength while lifting at a deficit even if you aren't gaining muscle mass.

Just answered a question I needed to ask, so doing squats etc won't build muscle under my fat but help burn fat instead of losing muscle? so in effect toning me up?