S6 EP13: Can You Build Muscle & Lose Fat At The Same Time?
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Gaining muscle or losing weight? Which one should you do first? Or should you do them together? Can you do them together?
In today’s episode, Rachael and Kelsea will discuss what you need to know about how these two actions happen in your body and what you need to know about doing both at the same time. Listen in to hear them talk about how your muscle affects your metabolism, what your muscles need to grow, and what body recomp means for you.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- The best way to get nutrients
- Staying conscious of all ingredients when supplementing
- Whether you can lose fat and build muscle at the same time
- How muscle affects metabolism
- Understanding why you’re asking the question about dieting vs. exercise coming first
- How muscle grows
- Factoring in all the things that are happening in your body at once
- Body recomp
- What happens when you try to just lose weight instead of build muscle
- Why a calories in/calories out equation is too simple
- The obstacles of building muscles for women
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- Our Fitness FB Group.
- Thick Thighs Save Lives Workout Programs
- Constantly Varied Gear's Workout Leggings
- Our Fitness Blog
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So a person, and we all know someone that this has happened to, right, a person says, |
| 0:05.7 | I'm not losing any weight, but I'm losing massive inches. |
| 0:10.1 | That's body recomp. |
| 0:11.1 | Okay? |
| 0:12.1 | You're building muscle at the same time as you are losing fat and your body is recompositioning |
| 0:20.3 | so you can be losing inches in areas where it's obviously |
| 0:24.6 | going to be fat stores. |
| 0:27.5 | But you are also simultaneously building muscle, which also has a weight on the scale. |
| 0:34.0 | So you might not be losing weight, but you are losing inches. |
| 0:51.0 | The big question is this. In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? We are an army of hardworking women, changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 1:00.0 | Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well a part of your life. |
| 1:09.0 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 1:14.1 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:19.4 | Hi guys and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:22.4 | I'm Kelsey. |
| 1:23.4 | Hi, Rachel. |
| 1:24.6 | Hi, Rachel. |
| 1:25.8 | Look at you in your blanket. |
| 1:28.8 | Yeah, it's a, it's a huggle. |
| 1:30.8 | A huggle? |
| 1:32.2 | It's a huggle. |
| 1:36.3 | It's like a giant blanket that you get to wear around. So like, maybe, like, better than a robe because you don't have to worry about it coming |
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