How to stop being skinny fat
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2020
- Being skinny fat isn't a body type, it's a sign of metabolic distress as well as an effect of poor lean mass to adipose tissue ratio. Unlike people who are straight up fat or skinny, who can (and should) mostly focus on diet to modify their body, the skinny fat individual would do well to put the bulk of their efforts on training diligently instead. While a solid control over your food intake and hormonal environment will of course help, these 2 factors truly become relevant when you start putting muscles into the mix.
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I was once skinnyfat
Didn't weigh a lot
Still had no abs
Why? I knew not
Almost a good haiku.
@@kachucho872 I’m forever cursed by the haiku count lol I just naturally start counting like a robot when I see your comment LMAO
To add to the video, please newbies, don't believe that a transformation will occur in 90 days. That is a common myth. If all goes well, you can expect to have obvious muscle gains in anywhere from 90 days to a year. It's highly variable. A radical body transformation is a multiple year endeavor. Just be patient and focus on your tonnage rising in time, as he said in another video.
In a similar note I’d like to pitch my experience. I “trained for years” but 1) only really put in 6 months here, 3 months there, 4 months there of genuine consistency and 2) had mediocre programming, interspersed with sporadic lifting. I definitely had a bit of muscular base despite definitely still being a novice but I did have reasonable “body knowledge” - form, how it feels to lift and go hard, etc.
Part of it was just acknowledging still being a novice and party was following a cobbling of NH’s novice programs that I cobbled together for my needs. But being very consistent and going hard every session, I’ve had visible gains in 4 months. I have no doubt it will be a transformation at the 1 year point.
Especially if you’ve had experience in the past with a bit of a “powerbuilding” influence as I think many have, you’ll probably be coming in with some underlying base built up and experience with compounds. But doing a legit bodybuilding workout, you’ll see your arms grow faster than you thought possible which is honestly hugely motivating compared to the torso and leg grind.
@@jmass4207 I can also say that when I changed to bodybuilding (following a Steve Reeves inspired program) my arms grew for the first time and gained a pound of muscle by themselves in a few months. A lot of this came from treating isolations as seriously as compounds.
If i saw this vid 4 years ago, i wouldn't have gained 50 lbs in the name of a bulk. Sharing this with everyone. Body fat distribution is important. Great Content
Daily dose bodybuilding knowledge right here
Your channel is gold. Thank you for all the advice, man.
I'm glad more people are promoting recomposition and patience over these extreme transformations.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts about old school diets like the ones used by Steve Reeves (sub optimal protein intake) and Vince Gironda (High protein keto). I think there's alot of misinformation out there about dietary needs as they relate to bodybuilding.
If you ask a question about them underneath any Q&A ill add it to the first edition of the one about nutrition
@@NaturalHypertrophy Excellent, thanks!
Thank you for providing straight-up information like this. You're the only one I trust for help these days.
Being a skinny fat person who trains, def dropped a like. Great video
Great information on an important topic a lot of men (including myself) are suffering today. Cant lie being skinny fat sucks a lot because seeing progress from month to month is almost impossible to see. But I guess patience is the only route to take as others have failed me. Great stuff as usual keep it up
Thanks for this vid, I remember commenting that I was bulking and I stopped around when quarantine started. The bulk went really good but at a certain point I knew that it wasn’t necessary anymore since the gut I already had started getting a little bigger. I’m eating the same foods but I cut out the junk food completely and eating more Whole Foods. You’re right, it’s a test of patience. I’ve been at maintenance and still slowly getting bigger and stronger. Life is good
Than you soo much! You literally described my physique and i was wondering why my limbs looked small this is soo helpful!
I actually started training abs because of this channel, and unironically my fat storage on my stomach has vastly gone down in only about a month of hard training with the abs. I'm now on a bulk and feeling better and looking better than ever before. And interestingly any fat I'm getting isn't going to my midsection
How are you looking now?
Appreciate your physique bro. This channel and information deserves a lot more audience and subs. Good luck with YT.
This video is honestly one of the most informative pieces of content I've watched on the subject. I'm a guy who went from my highest weight of 296 to around 180 nowadays. I can maintain the weight just fine, but I'm definitely "skinny fat" with noticeable lovehandles & back fat. What I didn't do when losing weight, was train. At all. Zero.
I'm definitely a novice, I have a minor amount of lifting experience now, but I know all I need to do is maintain and just keep pushing my lifts. Thanks, Natural Hypertrophy. Your content is amazing, keep it up.
Good luck on your journey brother
Dude I love your videos and I love your accent. Keep it up great little nuggets of knowledge.
Thank you so much. This one cleared up a lot of confusion, your contents are straight up solid and good. Love from Italy.
anch'io sono italiano kek
@@user-jx6bt2tw5q cosi bello sentirti!
@@mortemoccasus2412 anche per me, purtroppo in italia YT fitness secondo me è indietro di 10 anni, al posto di NH abbiamo fede rossi che è un po' cringe devo dire
This is the some of the best skinnyfat advice i have ever heard
Glad I watched this video. I’m getting back into training after a month lay off and I’m in the same dilemma - I’m 10lbs of weight gain away from being fat and 10lbs of weight loss away from looking skinny(er). My lifts are “intermediate” but in no way shape or form look like I lift (besides maybe after a delt and arm pump in god tier lighting).
Am dedicating 6 hard months of maintenance/slow bulk and dialed in training and nutrition - took before measurements of most body parts and tons of pictures. Am tired of spinning my wheels and falling in and out of consistency. I will weight train and eat healthy for life but I just want to see the net progress if I put all of my effort in for once.
This video was recommended to me and im about to go check out a gym later today lol, good advice. Never been to a gym and only been doing home exercises with bodyweight and dumbbells, very inconsistently but hoping this gym is nice and i can stay consistent.
Godspeed! This is the start of an amazing journey for you if you stick to it
Was hoping you would talk about this topic
Thank you so much for this you sir are truly amazing. I'm not even trying to get that big I just want to be around jackie chans body in his prime. But anyway consistency itself is something I must work on and my diet is fairly clean just my lack of consistency and negative thoughts hinders my progress
I think something not many people think about is what we call "homeostasis". Meaning that the body like to remain in certain state and becomes more efficient in that state with time. If you keep bulking and cutting, your body never becomes efficient for gaining muscle and staying lean. That's why in my opinion you should either recomp, or if you are very fat just go to a body composition you like that is sustainable to you and stay there.
Thanks for the video brother, I've been struggling for years with this exact thing. I lost around 50kg over the years but I did it in a terrible way (no exercise, low protein, huge amount of carbs). Plus for a while, my calories were super low just because I was seeing the weight going down (had periods with less than 1k calories daily). I didn't know anything about recomp or training or nutrition back then. A couple years back I almost reached my ideal weight and guess what, I still had lots of extra fat, non-existent muscles and basically ended up skinny-fat. Big gut and all that with tiny arms and a weak core.
I've been lifting for a while now and I can see some difference but the diet is the biggest problem as if I start cutting I end up looking more skinny fat as you said and if I bulk, I get belly fat instantly. It's a huge challenge. I'll follow your advice and try to stay at maintainance. The big problem is that gyms are closed here at the moment so I can't do much training-wise except using dumbells at home. Thanks again for addressing this issue. PS: how do you get pecs like that?
Have you make any noticeable progress?? My case is literally the same as yours and i'll like to know how things have gone for you
Recomp is da wey
How has your progress been
Oh, cool. I drew your thumbnail!
You've got a very cool definition of skinny fat. I like it a lot.
No way!! It's the best representation of the skinny fat cycle I could find, good job!
I've gone from 94kg to about 80 and now I'm happy to see the upper 2 pecs for the fist time in my life :D
So far I'm still cutting but at 5,11 I'm looking much better than I did
Ahh this is awesome for me, this applies to me so much. Firstly thank you. 👍
I'm 33, and been a mixture of fat and skinny fat my whole life. Been training now for a year, and at first I followed my friend who started at skinny, we both strength trained and "dirty bulked".. I just got fat everywhere. He looked much better. So now I'm eating maintenance with high protein and following a 4 day a week training mix of hypertrophy and strength in the gym I've built during lockdown. And he's yammimg as much food as possible and on also training in my gym. I have progress pics that show the 3 stages 😂 now I'm happy with my progress, but any more tips would be awesome. 👍
Browse the channel using the playlist, you'll find a lot of useful things
Can I ask what program?
Really helpful brother ..!!😊 that's motivation for me
Dude your physique is insane in this vid.
Merci mon frere. Patience is key.I definitely fall into the skinny fat category l. I have been training since June. I have been seeing consistent results, and I feel a lot stronger as well. My current program consists of calisthenics, and I have just added ring training to my regimen. Been doing a lot of intermittent fasting and consuming tons of water daily. My current workout is a 4-day Upper/Lower split with 3 rest days. I am open to any suggestions!
You look great now man I haven't been on your channel for a while (just saw you on a nba video comment lmfao) which reminded me of you, you must have done a very effective cut!
This is what I've been doing. I eat in a surplus because I favour strength over muscle definition and it helps me progress. But I still want to create a defined and muscular physique. So as I build more muscle and strength, I maintain the same calories; I don't increase them. Eventually over a few years my body fat around my torso should reduce while my limbs should grow. It's an extremely slow process, and sometimes I eat too much of a surplus, but in general I'm progressing.
It's true. If I cut, I lose fat everywhere but my torso. I'm not skinny fat strictly, but somewhere in between. I don't have a big belly, but I have fat all around my mid section, whereas my arms and legs are generally skinny. If I cut, my veins in my arms will start to show, my collar bone will pop, my legs will become more defined, but my belly and low back will still be slightly fat. That's where I naturally store any fat. Cutting just makes me look skinny, not athletic and muscular.
Yeah I think one thing that NH didn't mention is that people's BF distributions are genetic. It doesn't matter if you cut you may still have a gut simply because that's your bodies preferred place to store fat.
I am in a similar situation. How is doing your journey?
Working to one day look like u brotha
You got the potential to look much better than me brotha
@@NaturalHypertrophy hope so man I’ve had to rely on programs like athlean x as I haven’t been able to make my own program but I’m trying to throw something together with the help of your videos appreciate u.
This is so interesting!
I’m pretty much the guy you described here. So if I keep getting stronger with my lifts and getting sufficient protein and calories, this fat will rearrange itself and I’ll build muscle in the good places?
Yup
Hey bro, 8 moths ago u wrote this coment, how is it going ?
@@javiergarrido1728 would love to hear man! 👍
How’s it going bro?
great tips I've neglected training my obliques and still have love handles, yet i can still see abs
I want to add that almost always skinny fat is accompanied by having leaky gut, and it usually can be reversed completely by eliminating sugar and other simple carbs like flour, seed oils, and eating more natural food, enough fiber and maybe some kind of natural probiotics to restore gut bacteria. Another thing that helps is intermittent fasting - to give your gut rest time between meals and heal.
as far as I know I'm skinny fat ( mostly fat around the belly) and what makes it worse is that I have Gynecomastia since the age of 12 ( i'm 22 now) this made me pursue bodybuilding ( 8 months and counting) to at least make my chest seem normal compared to my overall shape , I'm currently working out 4 days a week (I'm following one of your gentlmen splits with some minor changes :D ) focusing mostly on increasing my strenght and training intensity . my current records are 40kg bench press , 50 kg squats and 60 kg for dead lifts each for 10 repititions.
Keep at it brother
I have reached a point at which im not sure anymore if iam skinny fat or i have some sort of body dismorphia lul
Maybe a lil bit of both
I was very skinnyfat. I was once decent looking with 70-73 kg. Visible abs and almost no tits. What really helped me is to be strict with the circadian ryhtm. I had a clean diet, i worked out but still had fat around the belly. After only 2 weeks of going to bed around 10 and waking up around 6. My abs started to get visible. Also calorie counting. You have to be very strict get protein a higher priority. i do best on a high protein low to moderate carb, and moderate fat diet. High carb do not work for me. Geneticaly my roots are from central anatolia and i was born and still live in germany. The weather of the two regions do have one thing in common. The ground freezes in winter. So my ancestors were dependent on animal products while in spring and summer they could eat more plant products. In winter 2:1 protein,carb ratio in summer 1:1 or 2:1,5 protein to carb. Sometimes i eat more carbs but in the long run my body does not like carbs that much.
And also get yourself a good protein powder, if you want to increase calories do it with protein.
Best advice ... Have lost 40 pounds by focusing on cardio making me skinny fat. It doesn't matter how hard I try I cannot cut any more fat the same way..now, focusing on intense training, eating at maintainance, eating enough protein, sleeping well. Let's see what I accomplish in next 6 months.
See long term & ditch the 6 months deadline. It will take the time it will take
@@NaturalHypertrophy alright man 💪💪
Blabla jokes aside I’m finding this channel very informative. Finally a body building channel that isn’t bro science mixed with supplement schilling and tren!
You came for the ments and you stay for the rest.
Rest assured that I'll still be delivering Bloho tales every month
@@NaturalHypertrophy check out Van Damages channel on Bitchute, some VERY scathing work on Blabla. Once again, really enjoying your channel!
@@blahasdirtysock3657 Yup I'm aware of Van, he's part of the cause
Another thorn in Bloho's unwashed foot
Dr. Eggman physique is what I say
Skinnyfat is the hardest starting point, even worse than being fat
I will share my case, I hope it helps someone :D
As a skinny fat I was on the yo-yo endless knot without going anywhere defined. But one day I realized it had to stop. I bought a food scale and started measuring my calories. Then I figured out my maintenance so it was time to decide whether to bulk or cut. I read so many articles and found some interesting information. I decided to cut.
Overall I have been in a cut for 3 months (yep, long time. We skinnyfat guys tend to subestimate the amount of fat we have. Believe me) and I keep adding weight on my training sessions. I have made progress and right now I still look somewhat skinyfat BUT I can also see some definition on my core, slightly but it feels good to finally verify that there is something at least.
The most important thing is diet! Measure all the food you eat and then just wait
Why I took that approach?
First, I did it because I was tires of looking at my gut. Know is way less gut and I can see definition so it also keeps you motivated to see your little muscles haha
Second, the best way to see gains is by removing the layer of fat you have over your muscles, in other word --> even if you have poor muscles, by always progressing in the gym and eating on a deficit you will morph
Third, when I get to a level of body fat i am happy with I will start to bulk. And the best thing is that with a low body fat percentage then your body hormonal balances is more favorable to put muscle than fat, I will increase just above maintenance (maybe 100 cal extra) to slowly progress.
Yes, we don't have the perfect bodies and the path for change is really difficult, sometimes you feel with no energy, sometimes you feel tired. But you go, you pursue your goals and you will get them!
This is my story, I started with a cut and I feel way more mentally relieved now! I know you can!
Recomp is a much better idea. I am doing right now at 205 lbs at 20% body fat and my rate of progress is the same as when I was gaining 1 lb per week. Switching constantly between bulking and cutting is a waste of time. That is why Vitruvian Physique looks much smaller than AlphaDestiny, because he wastes a lot of time cutting and bulking.
For 20% body fat, recomp is the way.
For 15% body fat and below, lean bulk is the way.
The only people who need to cut are people who are overweight or obese.
1:42 - Big Lenny :-(
put some respek on the Tom Plaz of abs name
*PUT TAT COOKY DAWN!*
Is doing bodyweight routine with progressive overload enough to get rid of skinny fat, or should I just go to the gym?
Thanks 😊.
I’ve got an in-depth question about this that would probably be better for a q&a than here. Is there a specific place you want me to drop that?
In the latest injury Q&A would be great as I'm prepping for the nutrition edition
former skinny fat here my advice-- Increase calories, Reduce Fat Intake, Reduce Carb Intake (IMPORTANT), Increase Protein Intake, Avoid Intense Cardio, (IMPORTANT) LIFT HEAVY ASS WEIGHTS
Hello! I have been having an on-off relationship with training since 2018. In the beginning (2-3 months), I did as you advised - my diet was oriented around maintenance while my training was based on compound movements. However, the progress was only mediocre. In summer, I began to bulk in addition to a stricter training plan, and although I definitely increased my fat percentage, I can also see progress in muscle growth. My experiences aside, my question is, how could you expect to build muscle without a calorie surplus? Wouldn't you necessarily have to bulk in order to stimulate muscle growth more efficiently? I'd love to hear your take, since you are more knowledgeable than me on this.
Thank you.
Struggling some with this myself. After getting to 200 lbs with good strength increases, felt a little too soft, started calorie counting to an estimated maintenance, then lost strength/weight with little drop in bf%. Gonna go back to modest intuitive surplus and just soak up the strength gains awhile. It's a tough balance to strike, one I sure haven't figured out yet.
@@brianh1161 What are your plans in the long run? Are you going to be cutting and bulking to reach your goals, or are you still going to try for maintenance and reduce bf?
@@SiqzzMC I want to do the latter, but not at the expense of strength. So not even sure. Might get myself further into intermediate strength before I change up.
@BrokenMikrofone totally agree!
@@brianh1161 Check the vid "The real reason why people lose strength on cuts"
GOMAD, one rep maxes and a subscription to bloaches channel is all you need to be a beast!
Say it with me: BLOACH
@@NaturalHypertrophy 🤣🤣🤣
Hey man what program would you recommend following for an early intermediate, the gentlemen split jn your recent video? Or the 8 day cycle you follow?
Try the gentleman split and pay close attention to your ability to handle the lower body days. Doing the arm day will not be necessary
Since you established that the problem is mainly hormonal, is there something to be said about the training ?
I mean, are there optimal ways of training for hormonal improvements ? Would a guy training everyday Bulgarian Lite have more benefits on his hormones than 3 times a week fulm body for example ?
I haven't spent much thoughts on this but I'd think that developing muscular endurance would be key to priming the body to be more anabolic
In which case striving to up the frequency and length of the workouts before focusing on all out intensity could be the key
Is it bad to be slow cutting in hopes of getting rid of visceral body fat?
Im skinny fat. I have been skinny fat for the last 1.5 years.(Im17now). I wheighted 65kg on 185cm. I went into a bulk, I made a mistake and started strenght program- in my case, SS, I did that for 5.5 month or so(before than I trained for 5 month incorrectly). My lifts increased, but my belly just got worse, and I coudnt tell if I gained some muscle or not(84kg, 185cm). Since May 2020, I have been on a cut (home gym, basic equipment, so I continued with the ss with some more volume), now, after 5.5 month(november) Im still skinny fat. 74kg on 186cm. Im about to go on a very clean bulk(1%-1.5% body wheight gain per month), with *hypertrophy program*, hopefully I will build muscle and finelly get rid of that belly and be healthy.
And for those who wonder; I started my journey 2 years and a caple monthes ago. I was skinny fat as well, but more emphasis on the fat(82kg 184cm) for 6 month(ish), i was doing exsesive amount of cardio and barely ate, thats when I went to be a skeleton with a belly fat at 64kg, 185cm, then I started wheight traning(waisted 5-6 month with a bad program, then moved to SS)
I wish that it could all go away..
@@kaganas_edits7551 how has it been brother
@@alexitanguay just finished a really small bulk, Im cutting right now(more like recomping), hope that I will get rid of the belly in a few weeks from now
@@kaganas_edits7551 update bro?
Would you say hitting bigger muscle groups through exercises such as bench press, squats or dead-lifting is preferred over doing isolation exercises; as - due to the sheer amount of muscle involved -you'd be able to get the body to react in all these different parts of the body and promote subcutaneous fat storage there or are there other ways to make specific parts more susceptible to subcutaneous fat storage?
What would be appropriate rest to promote the body to respond in this way, to build muscle and store subcutaneous fat - would it be longer than when just trying to build muscle?
Thank you for all the replies.
Yes to question 1
No to question 2, just take the rest periods that allow you to perform best without going overboard (around 3 mins)
@@NaturalHypertrophy Thank you
I've been lifting for the past two years and cannot get rid of my midsection, I have vascularity in my forearms and biceps veins but I cannot get my chest to grow bigger than my midsection giving me that skinnyfat look. I'm currently 60kg/170cm and my lifts are all bodyweight ratios. I'm going to run the gentleman split for 6 months and if I can't get rid I'm just going to hop on dat dere frauding
That or you could be patient, recomp for 2 years or more and focus on developing your core / upper body.
@@NaturalHypertrophy I mean lifting for two years without seeing any visual changes isn't very satisfying but I get what your saying. It's very frustrating to have somewhat strong lifts for my bw ratios but yet without a pump and good lighting I looked like I haven't even touched a barbell.
@@cuddlingandcrying You're prolly fairly gifted for strength. And trust me, youll see some changes after 2 years of recomp. It's just that your strength and overall "absolute" size isn't gonna change much, but for someone in your situation this might actually be a good thing
So as I understand, as you train at maintenance and your body repairs the muscle, it moves the fat from the gut to the other areas of your body more evenly as a second form of increasing its strength beyond building muscle. Is this correct?
Skinny fat guys - forget high intensity cardio whatsoever. Focus on super low intensity, walking. The most shredded I ever got was walking daily + workouts.
Hi. Last year, I fell for the bulking meme hard and overfed myself. In the second half of last year and for most of this year, I tried to cut the body fat from the bulk. I have bicep veins, some upper ab definition but still love handles, lower belly pouch and face fat. Do I hop on maintenance and gain even more muscle?
The feeling of being skinny fat is having your waist bigger than arms!
Who's fucking arms are bigger than their waist?
I think everyone has that problem
120cm arm crew casually checking in
My arms are 140cm
@M B ma arms are 28 inches guise and I tower over Kai Greene. Saw the top of his head at an expo guise!
Can i train for muscle gainin and do some cardio with calories defecit at same time??
I'm 35, like you mention. Started training a year ago. I fell for the bulking meme. Much stronger but majorly skinny fat. Is it reversible?
no hope
Yup, follow the advice in the vid and you'll be fine
@@NaturalHypertrophy thanks, man
Can you do a review of the Candito 6 week linear program? I’ve had decent success with the program however I am at a point where I am starting to stall. Would be interested in hearing your opinion on where to go next
i believe NH reviewed it already; ua-cam.com/video/4aThavRpYLw/v-deo.html
it's only on the strength/hypertrophy section though bc the strength/power, and strength/control don't apply to his channel
I did that programme, fucking hated it start to finish. The 10x3 day was a fun but pointless challenge it seems. I made poor progress, but maybe I started too heavy
@@jowo__ thank you for this
@@its_james_fitness yes I experience similar. I feel I need to switch from linear to concurrent
Can you do a video on shitty bicep insertions? I have like 4 inches before the bicep starts to show, no matter how much pump or how much higher my bicep peaks it still looks small arms in a t shirt with the 4 inch gap between bicep and elbow
which calculator is best for counting maintenance calories?
One thing I am grateful for is my waist. I have a 28 inch waist when I'm at 8% bodyfat. When I'm around 15% I have a 30-31 inch waist, and when I'm 20% I have a 33 inch waist.
Jelly, I'm at 35 inches
@@NaturalHypertrophy but you are way bigger! Great channel bro, enjoying the content.
If Im skinny fat should I still be eating 1g of protein per pound of body weight while lifting? Or will that possibly push me into a bulk from how much I have to eat?
No hate, I'm a little confused by this, you say that the fat around the belly, the love handles/floaty jiggly bit is visceral fat and will move to surround the muscles of the limbs etc.. with training, but that fat is not visceral fat it is already subcutaneous fat surrounding the core muscles, if it was visceral you wouldn't be able to jiggle it as it's covering the organs. If you're training you're core as much as the rest of your other muscles, why would it prefer to move away from there, is it that it just becomes more evenly distributed?
Essentially, yes. This is actually an excellent question, feel free to ask it under the nutrition Q A if you want a more thorough answer
@@NaturalHypertrophy Thank you for the response, really appreciate/enjoy your content btw!
I was skinny fat when I started training and that shit is fucking hard to break through specially if your young and don’t know what the fuck to do. It takes time and effort to break through and get a good foundational muscle to look jacked.
Well it wasn’t like weird disposition 😂 as u say in the video but it was still not what I like it was skinny plus and chub around the waist
How to stop being skinny fat
?
at this point i think i need to stop being.
I'm gonna try going into maintenance
i have been taking in 1500 calories and exercising. My maintenance calories are about 2800. I did notice once i went a single day over calories my gut did get bigger, like overnight. Would maintenance still be a good idea?
Look at your weight and maintain that, you're probably just bloated.
Hey! I have been watching your channel since summer started and I was wondering if you are interested in a photoshop artist for your channel arts.
Hey friend! No but thanks for extending the offer
Ive been working out for about a year now and I never found a way to get rid of the fat in my belly or love handles. Im at about 20% body fat but i have no fat around my arms or legs. But my issue is that even if im on maintenance calories or even in a deficit. I end up losing my muscle or not gaining any muscle while retaining the fat. Ive been trying to lower my body fat percentage but im not sure why even though im on a deficit and training as hard as i can every other day.
@@Joji_14 so the thing is that I've been on a deficit and I train hard and for strength. Lots of isometrics and heavy weight. I've never been overweight in my life only skinny. Is it possible that I'm so much in a deficit that my body thinks it's starving? Then it preserves fat and burns the muscle because fat is more necessary than muscle for survival?
@@Joji_14 i think its possible that i am just too much in a deficit to the point where my starving body is just choosing to burn the muscle before my fat. because i do feel like i have stagnated on my muscle and strength gains for almost two months now. As if im not eating enough calories to where my body reliably burn fat instead of muscle to repair the muscle itself.
@@Joji_14 im 5'7 at 140. i think im consuming about 2000 calories a day. what im saying is that im on a deficit but i still never lose the body fat. and im training hard . sometimes even overtraining.
@@Joji_14 i think im at 20% body fat. i just wanna see my abs a bit. alright ill just keep doing what im doing and see how it goes.
You need to stay at maintenance and push progression for a LONG time
you said you will do a gym tour for 1k subs. did you do it already or did you forget?
At 10k fren
will this be a series? so skinny fat should train abs?
Why wouldn't you?
Everyone should train abs
Idk why but that thumbnail made me laugh
What if youre an intermediate with 2 years of lifting and you got a bit of fluff but not skinny fat, but youre not muscular enough either to go for a full blown cut. Maintenance aswell?
Yes sir
@@NaturalHypertrophy Recomp doesn't work unless the person is a complete beginner or obese. I am skinny fat and still an early novice and recomp doesn't work for me.
@@lazo3251 You being incapable of making a concept work doesn't render the concept ineffective.
I think there's two type of skinny fat people: underweight and overweight skinny fat people. The former needs to lean bulk and the latter can do well on a maintenance.
So maintenance it is ?
bruh Im so early bloho isnt even here
Here I am, rock you like a hurricane
@@jasonblahafitness9637 lmao
Hovering over my lawyer’s button guise...
He's always lurking
So as far as diet goes we should be at maintenance?
Yessir
you make videos? i thought you were just a youtube comments monster
p.s. you're as jacked as i thought you would be
Can someone summarise his topic? I have a short attention span.
Lol took me 3 days to watch. Eat at maintenance and lift hard. Avoid cutting/bulking. We're trying to remobilise the fat storage from gut/torso to limbs.
when i was a kid i wanted abs so i did a bunch of crunches for a couple months. i became a golem
Doesn't eating at maintenance for a skinny fat guy mean staying at the same body fat level?
Or do you advise staying at maintenance long term?
(1 year or more?)
No, if you are making significant progress in your training while remaining the same weight you are changing your body composition, basically doing a recomp.
@@TheFelipe10848 I see I've been training on and off for a while.
I'm adding either reps or sets on all movements every week.
Dieting usually leads to extreme rebounds after I go back to my regular eating habits so I'm definitely ready to give maintenance a try.
I'm an overweight, 29 year old novice trainee, do you have any estimate of how long to eat at maintenance
@@TheFelipe10848 I just noticed he made a series of videos on recomping.
@ natural hypertrophy Thank you
@OVERCOME72 right I guess if my muscle mass goes up and fat mass stays the same.
My body fat is actually decreasing.
@@berglendurch Not only maintain fat mass, you decrease fat. You can't maintain your weight while gaining muscle and maintaining everything else, something has to go away in the same proportion.
what kind of workout split do we do
Check the free program playlist and jump on the novice program
ello oo-toobe
Is there a follow-up video/series to this?
You can check out the nutrition advice playlist for more
@@NaturalHypertrophy The "Dietary advice" one? Thanks!
@@RBimas37 yessir
I hope this works man I'm going to eat at maintenance, and we will see my main goal is just to finally get rid of the handles man like bro you can see my abs a bit, but the handles piss me off
Hey brother 1year later what can you tell us
@@movyw it worked, thankfully, I don’t have a perfect v taper but my hips are squared, which is better than having them stick out, now I just focus on bringing up the lats and shoulders
I was never skinny fat I was just skinny
if any beginners are watching this. DO NOT listen to him. i won't talk generally bad about NH but this video is EXTREMELY wrong
eat whole food and get your protein intake. calculate your macros and calories. get your weight checked-in every week. diet matters AS MUCH AS training
Im 5 foot 8, 190pounds skinny fat it seems should I bulk, cut or gaintain?
Gaintain if you're patient.
@@NaturalHypertrophythank you mate, been looking for help for a while!
190 lbs at 5 foot 8 isn't skinny fat, it is just fat. I am 196.6 lbs at 6 foot 4, that is real skinny fat
If I am small but I am not shredded per se... am I skinny fat?
Maybe just small with no muscle💭
Me watching this at 36 in that situation... fml
You got it bruh, just go fuckin lift and get swole.
Quick question would I be able to use this while progressing with reps using evolving rep ranges? Keep in mind this is done twice a week
1 set bench
4 sets inclined
2 sets bench
3 sets inclined
3 sets bench
2 sets incline
1 set ohp
4 set shoulder isolations super set front and lateral raise
2 set ohp
3 set shoulder isolations super set front and lateral raise
3 set ohp
2 set shoulder isolations super set front and lateral raise
1 set dips
4 set tricep
2 set dips
3 set tricep
3 set dips
2 set tricep
I think doing 4 sets of the main movement followed by 4 sets of the secondary movement would be much better/straightforward
I see the outline of what’s looking like a dirty mo 😅👀 na jks bro
What's that?
Please make a video on G Flux. Does it work? Consuming massive amounts of calories while burning massive amounts of calories for improved body composition.
In this state the body has massive supply of nutrients but you won't get fat because you're burning a lot of calories, thus improved body composition.
I haven't seen many videos on this topic.
Copy that question under a Q&A and I'll answer it
@@NaturalHypertrophy Okay👍
@@surajnair1093 did he ever answer this?
@@plaknas_ He said he'll answer it in the next nutrition Q&A as far as I remember
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