I'm Dr Shannon Ritchie. I'm a doctor of physical therapy fitness trainer and

founder of Hello Fitness. In the Dr Shannon show you'll learn applicable tools

to improve your health based on science.

Welcome to the show.

Hello everyone, welcome to the show.

Hello everyone, welcome back.

Today we are answering some frequently asked questions about body

recomposition. So in case you haven't listened to my previous episodes about body recomposition,

highly recommend listening to those. I will

link them in the show notes, but just to kind of overview what body

re composition is, body recomposition is losing fat while gaining muscle.

It can also be fat loss while maintaining muscle or it can be

maintaining fat mass while gaining muscle mass. Anything that increases the

ratio of lean mass to fat mass.

Now, a lot of people, their goal

is to decrease fat mass while increasing muscle mass

and that's oftentimes how I speak to it.

So that's kind of what I'll talk about here, but just know that you don't

necessarily, that fat mass can stay constant and you can still body recomposition by increasing

the ratio of lean mass to fat mass. So how to body recomposition

if your goal is to lose fat and gain muscle at the same time.

Let's start with exercise.

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