75. How to Know When to Bulk, Maintain, or Gain-Tain (Part 2)
The Fitness Business Podcast with Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger
Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger
4.9 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Some of the questions we receive regularly: "I want to shrink my waist and grow my glutes. I want to get bigger and more ripped. I want to lose fat around my waist and grow my shoulders." All desirable outcomes with different strategies involved based on the individual. Today's episode is a deep dive into when to go into a bulk, maintenance, or gain-tain phase and how we would coach clients through the process both practically and with their mindset and wellbeing involved.
Topics Covered:
What a Meso, Macro, and Microcycles are
Gaintaining Principles
What To Do When the Scale Isn't Moving
The Psychology of Self Image and Building Muscle
Minimizing Fat Gain
Why Eating At Maintenance If You Are "Skinny Fat" is Necessary
Stay Tuned for Mini-Cuts
Jordan's 5 Part Series on Cutting
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, guys. Welcome back to the Flow State of Mind podcast. Today is part two of our nutrition |
| 0:04.0 | series on when should I know what to do? Should I cut? Should I balk, maintain? Or what we're |
| 0:09.5 | going to talk a little bit about today, Gaintain. Yeah. So if you did not listen to the last episode |
| 0:14.5 | that we did in this little series, we talked about how do you know when to diet? And it was like |
| 0:19.8 | six steps. It was your six step checklist before the diet. |
| 0:23.5 | We've gotten a lot of positive reception from that one. |
| 0:25.9 | So if you haven't listened to that, it's a couple episodes back. |
| 0:28.6 | I can't tell you which number off the top of my head. |
| 0:30.4 | I think two episodes back. |
| 0:31.2 | Maybe 75. |
| 0:32.4 | Don't quote me. |
| 0:33.4 | Something like that. |
| 0:34.4 | Yeah, a couple episodes back. |
| 0:35.5 | You'll find it but we wanted to do a part two follow up to like how to know when to gain when to balk or we're going to talk about the |
| 0:42.4 | idea of gain taining as well that's right we're going to go through all the different situations |
| 0:45.7 | and scenarios depending on the type of person you are the the experience level that you're at |
| 0:49.3 | or maybe the body composition that you're carrying so this is going to provide a lot of insight and context, guys, to allow you to make that decision with a full kind of scope of idea, right, rather than just |
| 0:58.8 | saying, oh, I want to build muscle, so I'm going to balk. It's not always that simple. Actually, |
| 1:02.2 | it's never that simple. Or I want to lose body fat. And we want to let you guys know that we have a free thing for you. So a lot of, as you guys know, Aaron and I mentor a lot |
| 1:15.0 | of online coaches. Okay, we're in our current IFCA round and we've got people just really |
| 1:18.8 | crushing it, stepping outside of their, their barriers and limitations from an income and |
| 1:23.0 | impact standpoint. But we still have a lot of coaches who we want to help and give some guidelines to because we're talking about nutrition specifically. We have a guide, which is basically the |
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