It's going on, guys. Welcome back to the Jeremy Scott Fitness podcast and radio show.

Coming to you hot today on this Wednesday. One question we do get a lot, mostly from dudes,

because we're dudes and sometimes we're crazy. The question is, can I build muscle and lose fat at the same time so meaning can I get bigger

and more muscular gaining and also get leaner and drop body fat look more shredded get smaller

I used to have a blanket answer for this that I would always say and I would say you know

hey guys to get bigger you have to

eat at a calorie surplus and to get leaner you have to eat at a calorie deficit so meaning

either you're you know not burning more than you're taking in or you're burning more than

you're taking in obviously the macros have to match up to let your composition kind of fall where

it may based on your body type trading training style age and everything in between.

And I've taken a step back from that because I guess there would be probably two or maybe

three instances where a person could actually build more muscle and drop body fat and

become leaner at the same time.

And I guess the three, I want to make this fast, you guys.

The three would be like your novice, number one, like your novice level lifters or trainers.

So people who are just starting out in the Iron Game, maybe even somebody who's trained

before, I think there's some studies out there where actually people had trained, you know,

like maybe bike or tennis or played athletics, but not strength trained at scale, like either bodybuilding,

powerlifting, power building, if you will.

They had done enough that.

So that group of people, since they're starting out at the novice level, technically over

time, if obviously the diet matches, they can build muscle and actually

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