Let’s get something straight on right away: as much as you think you can do it, you can’t bend fat. You can do all kinds of other things about it – having it, losing it, rocking, injecting, sucking it out, tan it, piercing, tattooer – but it doesn’t matter how many mirrors you stand for or filters you save, fat is not striped. Don’t separate. You can’t contract it, and no veins stand out. It is just there and destroys everything to look at – from a bodybuilding perspective of course.
In that case, the goal of every competitor in body sports (‘bodybuilding’ hereinafter) is to build/retain as many muscles as possible while burning away as much fat as possible. Because we all know – or must know now – the fat mass and muscle mass take up many different volumes. Spier is poet than fat and therefore takes up less space.
Fat is not so closed for comparison and takes up much more volume. Therefore, if you get ready for a bodybuilding match – with the aim of getting into fragmented, ie extremely low body fat – and because fat is voluminous than muscles, it would reduce it, not only your body weight, but also your size – losing fat means that you become lighter and smaller. Yet people keep thinking that they lose muscles during prep.
“I’m getting smaller,” they cry. “I have to lose muscles!”
No, Bro. You lose fat – the problem you have with it is that all the fat that you have won in the low season is not deposited under your skin. Part of that fat is in the muscle-such as a well-marbled steak. Simply put, you are not as big as you thought you were. (Nobody was.)
This is how it works: fat is stored on two heads – subcutaneously (under the skin) and intramuscular (in the muscle). Now think of Prime Rib. That gigantic clog of white items between the cap and the eye? That’s fat. That is the stuff that is marbled on your bones by every muscle. You look bigger because it takes up space in the muscle – such as the Synthol of nature. That is the case, go back to the prime rib – keep that glob with a cup and push the steak together again. It’s smaller, isn’t it? But have you lost muscles?
When your body starts to burn fat – through diet, training, drugs or a combination thereof – it does not focus in one place as everyone wishes to do (as long as you could specify where). It is a systemic burn. That means it pulls fat everywhere. Subcutaneous, intramuscular, visceral – it is all dumped and oxidized in the bloodstream. You cannot target one above the other. And you know for sure that the stuff cannot keep your arms out as if they heard in a Marvel film, while they only threw the header around your lower back.
Do you really lose muscles?
The best statistics to know if you lose muscle? Power. This is especially important for the first time competitor. If you are still strong, you are good. If you were close to what you were, when calories were in a surplus, you will not melt away. You are just peeled – that’s what you want.
Do you feel weaker in a calorie deficiency? Yes. Are you flat, exhausted and foggy? Sometimes. But that is part of the routine. It doesn’t mean you are shrinking. It means that you finally see the body of your bodybuilder for the first time.
What keeps an eye on most people is that if the fat leaves, the dish drops, the fullness drops and puts the panic in it. “I’m smaller!” Yes – but in the best possible way. Smaller and more difficult is not worse. Bigger and softer is worse. Watery is worse. Dry and hard, the size largely makes irrelevant.
The storage game
So when does thick storage actually happen? Once your intake exceeds your needs.
However, there is one reservation: a lot is made of what is known as “the optimum window of assimilation.” This happens about 1-2 hours after a hard training, when your body prefers to oxidize fat and carbohydrates for recovery. Some say that during that window you can use a maximum of half of your daily calorie assignment than spreading it throughout the day.
But beware of those cheat meals! A cheat meal is an opportunity to give in to a desire, not hurting my customers once I proudly told me that his cheat meal was a large double pizza, three orders from tacos (nine tacos total) and a dozen wings.
That is not a cheat meal – that is a call for help.
Such reckless excess spilles in fat storage and drag tons of water with it, faster than your last progress photo touches Instagram. It takes you days to recover, assuming that you immediately returned to the routine.
Think about it: if you leave your ass, eat exactly for the gram to recover and stay just below your turning point, your body will use food to build and repair. Go over that line, and it stores the extra. Every time. The body only uses what it needs. And you can’t force it to use more than that – well, to a certain extent, but let’s say, it’s not for everyone.
The tragedy? Most people walk around the stage weight around 30 to 40 pounds and think they have been refurbished. And they are – if you want to count Marmering. Being peeled is the only way to know what you work with. Every competition that prepares afterwards becomes easier because you know the truth. And that knowledge can seriously reduce the psychological torture of PrEP.
The hard truth
Bodybuilding is not just about building. It is about separation, shapes, detailing … revealing – what you have built. And that means coming into terms with different genetic factors that take their heads during PrEP – especially the first, where you finally withdraw the curtain and look what is underneath.
One of the many harsh realities that you are dealing with? The “muscle” that you thought you had built was perhaps mainly manteca.
But you never know until you go low.
One of the biggest obstacles for conditioning at the next level for first competitors is the terrible fear of shrinking. They spent months with their slats, wore three hoodies and became the worst nightmare in Golden Corral – all in the name of ‘getting huge’. And now they have to cash in the most?
Yes, that’s a difficult one. Especially for someone who is already mentally irregular enough to want to be a bodybuilder in the first place.
Don’t be afraid to get smaller – the feeling is soft. The situation will always exceed the size – especially from the back. Do not pursue the fullness at the expense of the definition. And for the love of everything that is holy, stop calling fat “size”.
Because if you don’t do that, one day you can stand opposite the mirror, the stage or the glass of the photographer, bend a blob that you tried as lean masses. Everyone knows real muscle hills and strives when you bend it, like a 22-inch Olympic gun. Fat, my friends, none bends.
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