Hello and welcome to this solo episode of the ESG Fitness podcast. This podcast, I'm quite out of breath

for no reason other than I just walked into the room and I don't have COVID and haven't had COVID,

so I'm not sure what's going on there. Anyway, this public podcast is going to be about what to expect when you're in a hypertrophy

phase or when you're trying to gain some weight.

And I wanted to do this podcast because, one, it's quite timely as I am looking to build

some muscle at the moment.

I don't know why I find that really funny,

but I'm in a hypotropy phase at the moment,

but basically I'm looking to build some muscle and gain some weight.

Two, because I get asked this question all of the time

in sort of different ways like can I build muscle without putting on

fat like I'm coming out of a dieting phase what should I expect is this normal and the answer is quite

long and it has loads of ifs and butts so So now I can just send people to this podcast and

hopefully by the end of it I will have talked through different caveats and different examples

for different people and people will understand why it's not such a simple answer to that question.

As with most things in nutrition and

exercise. And the third reason is because I have been meaning to do this for a while and it's come up a few

times in checkings this week. So now is the time. So let's get started. What to expect when you gain weight? And I think the first

thing to cover is unfortunately it's very unlikely you're going to gain muscle without gaining fat.

In fact, it's almost impossible. But this will look slightly different for everyone. So if you are coming out of a dieting phase,

a dieting phase, and you're very lean, then the simple answer is, sorry, because I know a lot of

people don't want to hear this, but you're going to have to gain some fat and some muscle.

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