Building muscles?

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  • Aperture_Science
    Aperture_Science Posts: 840 Member
    ok... please look at my bicep 30 days comparison shot then under my profile pics and tell me that it is just muscle unveiled.... I think there is growth... I am not arguing with you, just finding it hard to believe

    Your bicep looks about the same total size to me but that's from a small picture. Did you measure and if so did the circumference go up over the 30 days.

    As an example, I've been on cal deficit, with 3 strength sessions and three cardio sessions per week and since 17th Jan 2012 to date my bicep has not moved one cm. It is exactly the same as it was three months ago. My chest has gone down 2cm in the same time period. And yet Mrs Aperture_Science thinks I've put on muscle. I haven't it's just what I had before you can now see because over that time I've lost 6.6kg.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,047 Member
    hummm..... I am not sure you can not eat at a deficit and not put on muscle. Look at my profile pic, that is 30 days of training, eating at a deficit, there is more muscle.....and less fat !
    Practically impossible. What you're seeing is what everyone who loses weight and see underlying muscle underneath sees...........muscle that was already there, but never revealed. This is why so many people who lose fat, think they are building muscle when in truth they just reduced their bodyfat percentage.


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    ok... please look at my bicep 30 days comparison shot then under my profile pics and tell me that it is just muscle unveiled.... I think there is growth... I am not arguing with you, just finding it hard to believe
    I know it may be hard to believe, but I'm giving information that is verified by numerous Journals of Science. Whether you believe it or not is up to you.


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  • Aperture_Science
    Aperture_Science Posts: 840 Member
    Okay so what I'll do is eat around my MFP calorie goal, keep doing cardio and add strength training with that?

    Yep, that will work for what you want to do.

    Is doing workouts (squads etc) good for that?

    Yes squats are good, but before embarking on a strength routine do a bit of reading round the subject. Look into "Starting Strength" and "The New Rules of Lifting for Women".
  • tabinmaine
    tabinmaine Posts: 965 Member
    ok... please look at my bicep 30 days comparison shot then under my profile pics and tell me that it is just muscle unveiled.... I think there is growth... I am not arguing with you, just finding it hard to believe

    Your bicep looks about the same total size to me but that's from a small picture. Did you measure and if so did the circumference go up over the 30 days.

    As an example, I've been on cal deficit, with 3 strength sessions and three cardio sessions per week and since 17th Jan 2012 to date my bicep has not moved one cm. It is exactly the same as it was three months ago. My chest has gone down 2cm in the same time period. And yet Mrs Aperture_Science thinks I've put on muscle. I haven't it's just what I had before you can now see because over that time I've lost 6.6kg.

    My bicep has gone up half a inch. Lost inches everywhere else but my arm this past month
  • AEJhoi
    AEJhoi Posts: 36
    Okay thanks a lot I will do that!
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