Hello. Hello. And welcome to the podcast. Welcome, welcome. How are you?

I'm very well, thank you. How are you, Emma? Good. We just had to have a little pause because there was some mowing going on outside my window.

On Emma's massive garden. Yeah, I know. finner was like you don't have a lawn there's

a tiny patch of grass must have taken so long it actually surprisingly did but anyway we'll get on

so we've got some good questions as always. The first one is from Marianne.

She says, so I'm definitely stronger.

I've gained muscle since we've been working together, which is a freaking cool feeling, so thank you.

It's brilliant.

We've briefly discussed before that I always

believe that there's no way we can build muscle in a calorie deficit, especially given I've

been training for a while, which you rightly corrected that there potentially could be.

So is it because the quality of my training and intensity of my training was not pushed as much before I started training with you?

And I hadn't built my limit to build muscle mass during my first year of training.

Sorry, this was quite a long-winded question.

I guess I will reword this to pretty much say,

this client has been working with me for a while.

She wasn't, she didn't come to me as a complete novice trainer.

She'd been lifting weights for at least a year.

She has managed to build muscle and lose fat at the same time. So she's in a

calorie deficit, but it does seem quite clear that she's built muscle. And she's got stronger,

again, indicating she has. What we do normally say is it's unlikely after quite a short

sort of honeymoon period where you're very overweight and don't

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