FT Questions....

[Powerof2]

Great progress, man!!!

The law of diminishing returns means that you will need to create a greater stimulus, provide more food, use more supplements the larger you get. This will ultimately mean weighing more and you can answer your question about gaining muscle mass with body fat estimation

You can only add muscle so quickly, but fat can be stored fairly easily, but this VARIES for everyone. Someone who gets fat easily and has a heck of a time losing it will not want to balloon up when / if staying leaner works for them (i.e., they still gain muscle mass).

Some guys who have trouble gaining body fat won't / CAN'T really get terribly fat, but they may have to get fatter than they have before (at least in terms of total amount of body fat, as %BF may not be that different with more muscle mass). So, for that person, there might not be any practical limit in terms of body fat, as gaining muscle is the hardest part.

Ultimately, wherever you might lie on this spectrum, you'll need to push forward to get more muscle mass. If you are not making gains at a given body fat en route to the muscle mass you'd like / want, then you'll need to push harder, which will very possibly mean more body fat. (This is why folks like to include mini-diets - to hold new muscle, drop fat and then have some room to grow without getting overly fat.)

Again, for one person, getting fat is easy and this doesn't accelerate muscle gain, whereas for another, eating as if trying to get fat might be the only way to gain new muscle mass (although that person won't get fat).

-S

I see this a lot in amateur bodybuilders. Always wanting to step up to the next class. But they are hitting a show or 2 every year. Mini cuts work wonders for me. I'll hit a body weight say 220 no problem. I can do this with very little fat gain. If I want to go up after this point I have to change something. I already train my ass off and adding more supplements I'm not comfortable with. So I have to except my this option. Eat a lot more and and some fat. I'll push my fat to around 12%. For me I feel after this point the fat will comes faster than the muscle so I'll pull back hit a short cut reset and restart. The proses seems very slow when I step back and look it from a year long stance. The scale overall isn't the best way for me to see my progress. Pictures do the trick. My weight hasn't made any huge change in the last 5 years but my looks would make u think differently.


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