I know right?
How and why would the human body store fat when there is an energy deficit?
Saving for a rainy day.....these ARE THE FUCKING RAINY DAYS. ha ha ha ha
So how do you adjust macros on a rainy day?
I know right?
How and why would the human body store fat when there is an energy deficit?
Saving for a rainy day.....these ARE THE FUCKING RAINY DAYS. ha ha ha ha
why some of the big guys are eating 6+ thousand calories a day and not gaining weight? are they burning 6k calories everyday or is it insulin sensitivity or poor digestion or something else?
What? Milos is like the biggest fan of insulin in history lol.A while back ,in an Muscle and fitness DJ podcast, Milos say he doesn't use insulin because it's a pain in the ass. It can cause social interactions to not happen at all or having to end the interaction. On insulin got to sip shake and resistance exercise that muscle so talking can not hold up the process . I do like socializing with some people , and it is healthy to have pro social friends, people you see often ,somewhat often, or sometimes. That said, when it's time to train intense, it's business. .
@b-boy are your sets less than when two weeks ago, when five hundred mgs or more of anabolics were in your system?
10 mgs a day, for me , is okay. It definitely helps the cardiovascular system. Some days, you could go up to 12, 15, or 20, and get an extra boost, like maybe on body parts that could use the most advantage. I never lost much muscle on ten mgs, for maybe six weeks bc always would up to 20 mgs. Maybe didn't need to raise dose to 20 mgs, but then after, would do a blast
Good question.
Another another good question is how or can one gain muscles on a caloric deficit?
Not disagreeing with the common knowledge, am only relating my experience, a sample size of one.Yes. It would have been interesting to see how Levrone's body changed during a prep. Was he in a deficit or surplus the whole prep? How much did the scale change in total, start to finish and then compare to calorie intake.
But there's another BIG problem. There was a paper, there's probably a slew of these, explain how 30 years of dieting research is almost useless because you can't ask people what they eat, it will all be faulty. This includes dieting experts, basically everyone. Well of course there are exceptions like on this forum but overall, it's simply not reliable, you have to lock people into a space where you can't smuggle in calories nor get rid of them.
My friend is a fat fuck. He explained his diet to me and I said, "that's about 2K calories yet you say you are gaining weight (almost 300lbs). And for example you didn't mention that 50 gram whey/100 gram shake you are drinking right now." "I forgot to mention that."
Body recomposition at its finest by putting your body into a more anabolic state.Not disagreeing with the common knowledge, am only relating my experience, a sample size of one.
My weight was stable . . . not gaining weight, not losing weight (stasis, which on the planet earth, an impossibility), all I did was add some Testosterone and all “hell done broke loose” . . . no in change diet or exercise, grew noticeably workout by workout before my very eyes which for me was an absolute miracle after more than 30 years of serious training. And if I had any fat on me it was between my ears.
Please explain that to my simple mind. Serious. Thank you.Body recomposition at its finest by putting your body into a more anabolic state.
In the most simplistic terms I can think of, you increased testosterone and your body’s anabolic state.Please explain that to my simple mind. Serious. Thank you.
Love your post on here as you always back with citations.While the insulin hypothesis is insufficiently explanatory wrt fat gain and energy balance controls, insulin does suppress fat oxidation and block hormone-sensitive lipase. Justin Harris' attempted explanation, despite being delivered wearing glasses, about how exogenous insulin actually enhances fat loss (it doesn't) breaks down under basic scrutiny.
From https://thinksteroids.com/articles/insulin-promotes-skeletal-muscle-hypertrophy/
“Insulin enhances dieting by directing energy to muscle protein synthesis via glycogen synthesis and storage rather than to fat storage in an energy deficit because fat storage is impossible in a deficit”
False:
This claim, often used to promote the practice of slin use during dieting and contest prep, suggests that insulin promotes glycogen storage, and therefore in a state of energy deficit, during its activity peri- workout, slin conserves energy (proceeding from some rudimentary view of conservation of energy), and energy that would otherwise be stored as fat cells is instead dedicated to storage as glycogen and, by this argument’s facile logic, muscle protein.
It cannot be true that insulin use during an energy deficit (dieting) on the one hand (A) cannot synthesize new fat for storage (lipogenesis) & (B) can synthesize new glycogen stores (glycogenesis) and/or new muscle protein (amino acid synthesis/muscle protein synthesis).
Indeed, during caloric restriction, catabolic processes are those pathways directed towards by metabolism; and while slin may not, as an anabolic reaction, induce lipogenesis; it can certainly suppress β-oxidation (fat oxidation) as well as inactivate hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) activity, down-regulating mobilization of triglycerides within adipocytes) [26] [28], which it does.
You did. I get it. Thanks for thatIn the most simplistic terms I can think of, you increased testosterone and your body’s anabolic state.
This led to an increase of muscle size and fullness. So you moved from less body fat to more muscle, thus the term recomposition. Muscle burns or utilizes more energy than fat.
If I’m 220 pounds on 300mg of test and 2-4 units of HGH for 12 weeks (a rough example of a cruise), then move to 1000mg of test and 10 units of HGH (back on a cycle) and change no calories/activity levels I will look completely different. Lower BF, fuller muscles and likely a gain in muscle.
Myself and others could dive in much deeper, but trying to keep it simple.
Hope this helps.
This was a couple months ago ,on the Dennis James video calls with Chris Cormier. He's talking about him now at 59 years old not using it.What? Milos is like the biggest fan of insulin in history lol.
There are plenty of nutrition studies done in metabolic wards where only access to food is what they provide you with.Yes. It would have been interesting to see how Levrone's body changed during a prep. Was he in a deficit or surplus the whole prep? How much did the scale change in total, start to finish and then compare to calorie intake.
But there's another BIG problem. There was a paper, there's probably a slew of these, explain how 30 years of dieting research is almost useless because you can't ask people what they eat, it will all be faulty. This includes dieting experts, basically everyone. Well of course there are exceptions like on this forum but overall, it's simply not reliable, you have to lock people into a space where you can't smuggle in calories nor get rid of them.
My friend is a fat fuck. He explained his diet to me and I said, "that's about 2K calories yet you say you are gaining weight (almost 300lbs). And for example you didn't mention that 50 gram whey/100 gram shake you are drinking right now." "I forgot to mention that."
Yeah nutrition research has come a long way. Even some where output is monitored alongside their intake.There are plenty of nutrition studies done in metabolic wards where only access to food is what they provide you with.
You didn't read my post b-boy. You and I both know what happens when you're in a calorie deficient diet. I quoted in my post "So you have to be careful on what kind of diet you are on".So are you saying that during a diet when im in a 500 calorie deficit daily that I will get fat if I eat peanutbutter when taking my insulin???
If I'm in a daily calorie deficit my body will burn more fat than it stores, exogenous insulin or not.
This is what I'm wondering. Supposedly insulin makes it hard for fat burning to occur, yet many take it pre cardio a few IU with fasted cardio to burn extra fat.While the insulin hypothesis is insufficiently explanatory wrt fat gain and energy balance controls, insulin does suppress fat oxidation and block hormone-sensitive lipase. Justin Harris' attempted explanation, despite being delivered wearing glasses, about how exogenous insulin actually enhances fat loss (it doesn't) breaks down under basic scrutiny.
From https://thinksteroids.com/articles/insulin-promotes-skeletal-muscle-hypertrophy/
“Insulin enhances dieting by directing energy to muscle protein synthesis via glycogen synthesis and storage rather than to fat storage in an energy deficit because fat storage is impossible in a deficit”
False:
This claim, often used to promote the practice of slin use during dieting and contest prep, suggests that insulin promotes glycogen storage, and therefore in a state of energy deficit, during its activity peri- workout, slin conserves energy (proceeding from some rudimentary view of conservation of energy), and energy that would otherwise be stored as fat cells is instead dedicated to storage as glycogen and, by this argument’s facile logic, muscle protein.
It cannot be true that insulin use during an energy deficit (dieting) on the one hand (A) cannot synthesize new fat for storage (lipogenesis) & (B) can synthesize new glycogen stores (glycogenesis) and/or new muscle protein (amino acid synthesis/muscle protein synthesis).
Indeed, during caloric restriction, catabolic processes are those pathways directed towards by metabolism; and while slin may not, as an anabolic reaction, induce lipogenesis; it can certainly suppress β-oxidation (fat oxidation) as well as inactivate hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) activity, down-regulating mobilization of triglycerides within adipocytes) [26] [28], which it does.