The best ways to put on muscle and remove unwanted fat simultaneously

At least once a week, I get an e-mail that says something like this:

“I’m skinny and I really want to know the best way to gain muscle. However I need to get rid of my fat tummy simultaneously. What is the fastest way to lose belly fat”

This involves expecting your body to accomplish 2 things:

Growing muscle mass while shedding stored fat.

And not only that, these people really want to do both at the very same time, and they also keep asking what things to eat and the way to train in order to make it happen.

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you would like the exact same thing. You don’t want to choose one goal. You would like to know precisely how to go about doing the two as quickly as possible.

So is it even possible to gain muscle and lose fat simultaneously?

The simple answer is yes.

However it’s something that’s limited to those who are extremely overweight and have never lifted weights before.

After you have moved beyond the overweight beginner stage, gaining muscle while dropping fat is a goal that becomes harder over time.

People who are returning to training after an extended layoff, where muscle memory becomes a factor, will also find it relatively easy to gain muscle while losing fat. People using anabolic drugs will also to find it much less difficult to lose fat and gain muscle than guys who choose to stay natural.

In other words, those individuals who can burn fat and put on muscle simultaneously are:

1. Fat novices

2. Those returning to training after a layoff

3. Folk using anabolic drugs

Why can’t anyone outside of those categories drop fat and gain muscle simultaneously?

To gain a significant amount of new muscle mass, your body needs fuel. In other words, you will need to consume more calories than you’re burning off each day. But to drop fat, you need to consume fewer calories than you expend.

If you do try to do both things concurrently, your progress in either direction is likely to be so frustratingly slow that it won’t take long before you feel like throwing in the towel.

Yes, you’ll be able to build SOME muscle while you’re dropping fat. But you’re not going to be able to do both at the same speed.

What I’m saying is that, it’s far more realistic to lose ten pounds of fat while putting on a pound or so of muscle. Losing 10 pounds of fat and replacing it with ten pounds of muscle is the exception and not the rule.

Instead of trying to add a lot of muscle and lose a large amount of fat simultaneously, you will see better results by splitting your training goals into several phases, and working on one after the other.

If you spend 5-6 weeks putting on muscle, followed by 3-4 weeks losing fat, then you’ll have lost fat and gained muscle mass at the end of the 8-10 week period, but you’ll have done it by switching between periods of muscle gain and fat loss.

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