What's up, guys?
Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.com.
Today we're going to take a test together.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to show you a photo of an individual and I want you
to tell me what you think they need to focus on.
This is him right here.
Now, I'm going to give you some stats.
He's 5'8" tall, and he weighs 182lbs.
Now, some of you are probably jumping up "I think he should lose weight!"
He definitely should lose weight.
"Look at those bitch tits, Jeff!
You talked about them before.
And the waist!
Look at the size!
And the belly!"
He shouldn't lose a single pound.
Not a single pound, in my opinion because I'm going to show you his after photo.
This is it right here and I'm going to give you some stats.
He's 5'8" tall – didn't get any taller.
I don’t know about that program yet – and he still weighs 182lbs.
But as you can see he looks dramatically different.
He didn't have to lose weight.
What he did was, he lost a lot of body fat and he added lean muscle.
Which brings us to the whole concept of 'bulking and cutting'.
And whether or not this could even be obtained simultaneously – because a lot of people
think it's impossible – if you watched this channel for any period of time you know it
very much is possible.
As a matter of fact, I've been able to do that myself here on this channel.
I've leaned up considerably, I've added lean muscle mass.
Not at an alarmingly fast rate, but this channel's not about alarmingly fast anything.
It's just about results and longevity.
Being able to maintain that.
One thing you know I do here on this channel – well, two things.
Number one: I don’t bullshit you.
Number two: I stand up here 365 days a year with the ability to take my shirt off and
do a video on command.
I don't have to worry about "Oh, let's make sure – we'll just wait until June when I'm
actually in shape because I've allowed myself to get out of shape like a lot of other people
do throughout the year."
And we have these periods where they're in shirts, they're out of shirts."
I just happen to have this on so my microphone can be more easy to be used for this video,
but you know I could stand up here with my shirt off at any point in time.
I'm 41 years old on top of it.
So this is an age when it should be getting more difficult for me to do this, and I've
actually gotten myself into the best shape of my life, currently.
So you know that I'm a believer in the ability to do both at the same time.
We just have to understand why it's not necessarily the best solution to go the other way.
Number one, I've talked about many, many times.
A lot of people go on their bulk and cuts and never come out of their bulk.
They start there, they like that phase, they don’t necessarily like the cut, and they
can't get out of it.
So for every one successful person there is that comes out of it, there's 10 guys that
never got out of the bulk.
They're perpetually bulked.
So that's one of the reasons why I don’t like it.
But secondly, again, longevity.
Let's go back to this guy.
This guy did this in 90 days.
He did this in 90 days.
Now you have to have two things in order to be able to do this at the same time.
You need to be able to be hypocaloric if you're going to lose body fat.
To be hypocaloric you need to be taking less calories than you're burning, and/or consuming
in any given day.
Now, we can do that.
It doesn't mean you have to go on a crash diet.
It doesn't mean you have to go on all these crazy deprivation diets.
As a matter of fact, with ATHLEANX, our whole style of eating is based off feeding you and
actually making you enjoy what you eat because the next step of that equation is, yes, you
can do it.
You can be hypocaloric for a period of time, but why it doesn't work a lot of times for
people over the long term is they can't stick with whatever method they're using to be hypocaloric.
If you actually enjoy the things that you're eating you can stay hypocaloric for a longer
period of time – for a very long period of time – because you actually enjoy the
foods that you're eating.
So you need to be there.
Then as far as bulking, you need to be able to add muscle.
Again, I did this in reverse order, but what you need to do is, you need to be in a state
– a positive nitrogen balance.
You need to be in a state of positive protein synthesis.
Well, you need to be able to have protein synthesis occurring, and the only way you'll
be able to do that is if you're in a net state of positive nitrogen balance.
But you can do that.
You can do that by shifting your focus, making sure you're increasing your protein intake
while you're decreasing your calories.
Now, a note on how much that is – guys, there's so many numbers.
Every week a new number comes out.
"0.75g is the best", "2g per pound of bodyweight", "1.25g per pound of bodyweight".
That number is going to change for everybody, and depending on the research that you read
it will change in the varying overall level.
But what's most impactful for you is whatever your baseline level is now, if you're going
to go into a state of dropping your calories below your maintenance level you want to make
sure you're making a shift in the amount of protein that you're taking in.
Not just protein, guys.
Because you can have an effect on your protein synthesis by also slowing down the degradation
of your protein; the breakdown of protein.
Which, for me, has always been about prioritizing recovery.
That could be through sleep.
That could be through hydration.
That could be through supplementation.
There's a lot of ways that you can prioritize.
That could be minimizing stress.
Lots of ways to prioritize your recovery, but you have to have an eye toward that.
The combination of which is going to allow you to do both at the same time and do it
painlessly, and to do it for the long term.
Now again, let's talk about those rates of being able to do this.
If you're anew lifter, yeah; you're going to be able to do this faster than anybody
because you never had any real stimulus to your muscle in the first place.
That's expected, but if you're somebody who's a seasoned lifter, some people will argue
that you can't do any of this at all.
Those are the unintelligent people that say that.
The other people will compromise and give you a little bit on it, they'll say "You can't
do it in any appreciable amount.
Maybe 2lb-3lb a year, or so."
But let me give you the comforting reason why that's so encouraging, why it should be
so encouraging to you.
Okay, 3lbs.
3lbs of muscle mass gain in a year.
At the same time, dropping your body fat levels.
What you're going to look like is significantly different because this gentlemen – like
I said right here – this overall net bodyweight stays the same.
He had an appreciable amount of fat loss, and an appreciable gain of muscle mass.
Here's where it becomes encouraging for you.
It doesn’t have to be an overall – like "Oh, I weighed 175lbs.
now I weigh 185.
I'm jacked."
No, it doesn’t have to be that.
The impact, visually, that getting this right will have on your body is significant.
This is your game plan, guys.
I'm telling you.
It's based on longevity and the ability to replicate this because those that talk about
all the other methods, the shortcuts, and all that other stuff; that's not repeatable
and it's not sustainable, and we've never been about that here.
If you're looking for a sustainable, repeatable program that doesn't put you in a state of
calorie deprivation where you want to go bite someone's head off that you live with because
you're that hungry; then head to ATHLEANX.com right now and get our ATHLEANX training program.
It's reasonable, it's sustainable, it's practical, and above all else it's no bullshit, guys.
If you're looking for more videos on what you want me to talk about and cover, make
sure you leave your topics in the comments below and I'll do my best to do that for you
in the days and weeks ahead.
All right, guys.
See you soon.