What up? Welcome back to the fitness stuff for normal people podcast. I'm Tony. And I'm

Mariana. And the fitness industry right now is just not what it could be. It's become something

built on unrealistic expectations, aesthetics, external validation, everything just directing

attention away from what actually matters. The bottom line is we're not trying to provide

just another fitness podcast. There's

enough of those, but completely change the fitness industry for the better by providing you

with the knowledge and tools to give you confidence in applying the best possible evidence-based

training and nutrition into your own life. Where today, we're talking about the holy grail

in fitness, the crown jewel, the white whale.

Do you get that reference, the white whale?

No, I tell you.

We're talking about body recomposition, body recon, aka losing fat and gaining muscle at the same time.

This is something that we used to only think really possible in a small group of people,

people who are brand new to the gym, the very obese, and then genetic elite or people using

steroids.

And that if you're outside these groups, you just have to go through regular cutting phases to

lose fat and bulking phases to build muscle like everybody else.

But newer research that we're covering today has come out over the past decade that shows

that recomp isn't only possible for people outside of that small group, but is an extremely

realistic goal for almost anyone. So today we're going to give you every last detail to set up

a successful recont from calorie intake to macro distribution, from training splits and intensity,

the progression of your workouts. And in the end, we will tell you exactly how to know whether you should be recomping, going for a cut, or a lean bulk. But before we go in, I want to say a special thank you to everyone who's taking the time to rate us five stars on whatever platform you're listening on to. We're almost up to 20,000 people following us on Spotify.

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