Ep. 85 - Body Recomposition: Can You Build Muscle and Lose Fat at the Same Time?!

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Chris Barakat MS, ATC, CSCS is a natural bodybuilder, coach, and researcher studying body composition manipulation at the University of Tampa. In “evidence-based” circles, we like to think we’re immune to the echo chamber effect because what we say is based on data. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case. The statement “gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time is impossible unless you’re on drugs, high in body fat or a novice” is often repeated without a thorough understanding of the underlying science. Chris recently authored a publication titled “Body Recomposition: Can Trained Individuals Build Muscle and Lose Fat at the Same Time?” which challenges this belief. Join us in this episode as he breaks down the science for our understanding.

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0:00.0	There's no way of, you know, coding this one with anything other than gains.
0:05.2	This is a monster episode.
0:06.4	And anyone that's interested in anything hypertrophy related, body comp related, is going
0:12.8	to want to listen to this episode.
0:14.5	It's a powerhouse.
0:16.1	Absolutely.
0:16.9	I think it's not like, it's not like we we haven't done this before but it's still impressive that we
0:24.3	managed to do it again. We brought on somebody who just ticks every little corner of the box of
0:30.9	this is someone I want to listen to. We had Chris Barrettat on. So Chris is a great guy. He's
0:37.4	I met him last year during my contest prep.
0:40.5	He was both at the muscle mayhem out in California and at WBF Worlds.
0:44.7	He wasn't competing.
0:45.7	He was coaching and doing a great job at that, by the way.
0:47.9	So not only is he a bodybuilding coach, but you're probably thinking, oh, bodybuilding
0:51.7	coach.
0:52.1	I know what that resume requires looking really, really good in having a social media. No, no. Chris also happens to have,
0:59.7	he got his bachelor's of science and athletic training. So he's an ATC. He's got an understanding of the
1:04.3	body. And then he also did his master's at University of Tampa in exercise and nutrition.
1:09.0	So the man knows both sides of the fence, and he is
1:12.9	currently doing research at University of Tampa. He works with, I believe, I think he teaches
1:18.7	both graduate and undergraduate classes, and he's running a lot of really cool research studies.
1:24.6	I mentioned this off air. I mentioned this to Omar multiple times when I thought
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