You're listening to Biceps After Babies Radio, episode 254.

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I'm your host, Amber Breezeke, a registered nurse, personal trainer, wife and mom of four.

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Hey, hey, hey, welcome back to another episode of Biceps After Babies Radio.

I am your host, Amber Breezeke and happy Thanksgiving.

It's Thanksgiving week and I thought, what better topic to put on to the podcast for the week of Thanksgiving than one on bulking?

I mean, it just seemed so apropos with the holiday that is coming up this week.

So this topic is one that I feel like there is a dearth of information on, meaning we don't talk a ton about the phase that is bulking.

And if you're familiar with the different phases of a fitness journey, I talk about this a lot in episode 76 where I talk about the cycles of weight loss.

But a lot of women come into macros 101, they come into coaching really only grasping and understanding one phase and that is cutting.

And that's what they've been raised to do is restrict, cut food, be it a calorie deficit, and that's really what they've been trying to do their entire life.

And it's really eye-opening when people start to realize that cutting, yes, is a phase, but it's only one of four phases that you can and should be cycling through throughout your journey.

And that part of the problem is that you've been so focused on a single phase that you're missing out on the totality of what really makes you get to where you want to go, like the goal that you have in mind typically requires more than one phase for most women.

And so when you start to realize, okay, there's cutting, there's also reversing, which I have a bunch of podcasts about episode nine, episode 42, episode 114, episode 170, or all on reversing.

And that is a slow titration of adding calories back to increase the metabolism to bring you back up to maintenance from a deficit.

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