#210 - Lose Fat or Build Muscle first?

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🗓️ 1 August 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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When your training & eating for your goals, which for many is to build muscle and lose body fat, what should you do first, lose the fat first, build the muscle then lose the fat, or visa versa? Many are confused as to what to do first, here is my opinion and what I would do.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Vancouver Radio, episode number 210.
0:05.0	Flying into the 200s now.
0:07.6	So this is a quick Monday show again.
0:10.3	I've got a question from a user. We're going to get straight into the topic and no
0:14.8	messing about and obviously try and help so I've got a question from Ian.
0:20.3	Ian said hi Ben how are you, I've recently found your podcast. Really enjoy the info you
0:26.0	provide and due to this I thought I would send in a question. I know I'm all, I know it's almost impossible to provide individual advice this way but any help you
0:36.5	could give me would be great. I'm 41 5 foot 11 and weigh 81 kilos with a body fat percentage of around 14%.
0:46.7	I lift four times a week and have a decent diet.
0:50.1	On training days I'm eating around 3,000 calories with a good amount of carbs, brown rice, oats,
0:56.6	sweet potatoes etc and plenty of protein.
1:00.0	On non-training days I'm eating around 2,800 calories and my only carbs come from vegetables
1:07.0	and the rest coming from protein and healthy fats.
1:10.0	I don't consume any sugar.
1:12.0	When I'm in the gym I train pretty hard. My problem is I don't see any
1:16.8	significant muscle gain or fat loss results. I listen to other podcasts and read a fair amount of fitness articles and books but the amount of conflicting material infuriates me
1:27.7	At 40 plus I read I should be
1:35.0	be higher reps and not train to failure.
1:34.6	Others say it should be higher volume, lower weights.
1:38.0	I have experimented with diet now and then,
1:40.6	but my body composition always seems to stay the same.
1:44.0	I mainly train at night from 7 PM to 830 PM and then go to sleep around 1030 so that I can try and get my 8 hour sleep.
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