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Can You Build Muscle Without Gaining Fat? Lean Bulking is The Answer!

Do you want to pack on some serious strength and muscle mass? Then you need to “BULK”! The problem is, if you don’t do it the right way you might just end up wasting a bunch of time and end up gaining more fat than muscle. But we aren’t going to let that happen. You’ll learn everything you need to know in this article about how to bulk without gaining extra fat, the best exercises and how to train while bulking, and how to set your calories, protein, carbs and fat to make the most of your bulk. Let’s go!

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What is "Tracking Macros", and How To Use It To Lose Fat & Gain Muscle

If you want to take control of your nutrition and get serious about fat loss or building muscle there’s really no better way than tracking macros.

If you’ve been on the interwebs in the last few years and googled anything about nutrition you’ve probably seen the term “MACROS” OR “MACRONUTRIENTS” pop up.

Maybe you rushed out to Whole Foods and headed straight for the Macronutrient aisle so you could start taking advantage of this new superfood for fat loss! Sadly, you couldn’t find a bag of macros, but you found this article and that’s even better!

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What Is Skinny Fat and Exactly How to Avoid and Fix It - Training and Nutrition

Are you pretty thin but still not thrilled with the way that you look in a bathing suit or the way that you fill out a shirt? I’m talking to both men and women here.

It’s not that you want or need to necessarily lose weight, but you know that you want to look and feel different.

You’re not fat, you’re skinny fat.

Let’s spend some time talking about:

  • What “Skinny Fat” is and looks like

  • The nutritional traps and how to avoid them

  • The training traps and how to avoid them

  • What you can expect along your journey to cure your case of skinny fat

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Use Your Hand as a Guide For Portions - Get Enough Protein, Carbs and Fat Per Meal

If you’re trying to improve your health, lose weight or just learn what a balanced meal looks like, you’ve come to the right place.

Do you have a hand on the end of your arm? You’re in luck! Even if you don’t you’ve probably seen one and that’s good enough!

Here’s how to use your hand to build a meal that has a balanced portion of protein, carbohydrates (both starchy carbs and non-starchy carbs and fat) without weighing and measuring the ingredients.

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How To Read Food Nutrition Labels

Food packaging is ridiculous. Companies know that we have short attention spans and that we’re on a mission to look for healthy options.

Often they use these facts to confuse and mislead us by plastering the front of the package with buzzwords and bolt font highlighting things that we believe to be “healthy” all while hiding the ugly truth.

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How To Find Your TDEE and How Many Grams of Protein, Carbs and Fat To Eat

We know that calories are our energy source.  

The main factor in weight gain or loss is calories in vs calories out (it’s really that simple).

If you want to maintain your body weight you need to eat around the same number of calories that you are burning.  

If you want to gain muscle you need to be eating more calories than you are burning.

If you want to lose fat, you need to be eating less calories than you are burning.

Even though we know all of these things we still may not know how much and what to eat!

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