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How many times have you yourself, or “someone you know”, possibly went through a bulking / muscle building phase, and when it was time to begin shedding the body fat gained you noticed yourself week after week slowly but surely losing your hard earned muscle mass as you cut calories? What a dilemma. As a matter of fact, scientists at Louisiana State University found that when overweight men cut 25 percent of their calories, 25 percent of the weight lost was muscle mass. Not exactly what you want. I’m sure becoming a smaller version of yourself is not what you’re after. We all seek to have as much muscle mass as our genetics will allow with low body fat levels.

Now, I’m speaking to natural bodybuilders, not steroid users. The reason I state this is because certain anabolic steroids help preserve muscle mass while on a lower calorie diet. However, being that you aren’t going down that route, you have to seek other methods. One such major method is to continue to weight train intensely, for muscle building purposes, even if you are currently focused on burning body fat to show off all of that hard earned muscle underneath. In a West Virginia University study weight trainers that participated prevented losing muscle mass even though they were on an 800 calorie per day diet!!!

This may seem obvious, but you’d be surprised by how many people completely neglect hard core weight training when trying to lose weight or burn body fat. They think that diet and “cardio” / “aerobics” will do it. And that’s exactly why you’ll see them lose alright, but a lot of it is muscle mass (I bet way more than just 25 percent!). They’ll lose a ton of weight, yet their isn’t one ab or cut, defined bicep in sight.

Just one more reason why straight up weight lifting for muscle building is a major piece in the muscular weight gain process!