What's going on, Beesha. Welcome to the DailySwool Podcast Swole Slut Saturday. I'm outside with my sexy tainty man and I want to go into two swoltecs from some of our swolts, just to kind of break down and give you a little perspective and some swelosophy over the weekend. I hope you're all doing well. Some updates were still, of course, as I always say, we're working on the app, making a lot of strides. So looking forward to that release later this summer, you could join the Swole Fam over at SwarmusX.com to get access to Swole Text, the private groups, and of course all the programs, yoga, meditation, so much more. And before we get into it, we also still have 20% off.

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I want to read this response from Christopher.

I asked, what are you working on this week?

And I want to get into this a little bit because, well, I have selected this text.

I am bestowing it with some knowledge cock. So let's jump into it.

Christopher says, working on nutrition

this week, I had a Dexas scan and an RMR test. I'm seriously under-eating for my RMR, which is resting malabolic rate. Based on my numbers, I'm under-eating by a lot. Something isn't right because I feel like I'm putting on muscle, but I'm not losing any fat, checking the scale and my measurements. so I'm going to focus on getting more calories to bring me closer to my RMR target.

It's going to be hard because I need to up my calorie intake by about 700 calories.

It's not going to happen overnight, but that's an extra meal per day for me.

So a couple things here, Christopher is saying I feel like I'm building muscle. So I'm

curious as to whether or not that's true. And we know that you're building muscle. Of course,

Dexas scans can help, but are you improving your strength? Are you getting stronger? Is your

rep strength increasing? For example, are you doing 100 pounds for eight reps instead of seven, and then nine, and then 10, and then 110 for six, and for seven, and then for eight?

So building strength, you don't necessarily have to be in a massive surplus, and you can actually build strength and build muscle in maintenance or even a slight

deficit depending because you need that growth stimulus. This is why everyone's individual needs

are going to vary. So if you are increasing your strength, you are providing a growth stimulus

and you are making progress or progressively overloading, which is a requirement for muscle

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