What should you do after fat loss — keep dieting, maintain your weight, or start building muscle?
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In this episode of Beyond Fat Loss, Katie and Sean break down the balance build: a phase focused on building muscle while keeping body-fat gain controlled, eating more food and creating a lifestyle that you can actually enjoy.
After returning from holiday, Katie and Sean share exactly where they're at with their own body composition, nutrition and training — and why they're both excited to spend the next few months building.
They cover:
• What a balance build actually is — and how it differs from fat loss, recomp and a traditional bulk
• Why you don't need to be extremely lean before you start building muscle
• How to decide how many calories to eat during a build
• How weight trends can help you know whether you're eating enough
• Why progress photos, training performance and wellbeing matter alongside the scales
• How slowly you should expect your weight to increase
• Why training quality, progressive overload and proximity to failure are essential for building muscle
• How to eat more without letting nutrition quality fall by the wayside
• How to use flexibility and calorie balancing without turning it into another form of restriction
• The difference between intentionally not tracking and simply becoming complacent with your tracking
• The biggest mistakes that can cause body fat to creep up during a building phase
The bigger message?
Fat loss is a temporary phase. Your fitness journey shouldn't revolve around being in a calorie deficit forever.
Learning how to build muscle, eat more, train hard, manage your body composition and enjoy your food is a huge part of what comes beyond fat loss.
FREE RESOURCES
Not sure whether you should lose fat or build muscle next?
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