Progress pics?
Recomp works if you are seriously undertrained. Like - you have never pushed yourself to any limits, so now when you start to train and diet at the same time, your muscles have some wiggle room to improve while also dieting. If you have some muscle on you for a while, you cant grow muscle in a caloric deficit anymore. The more muscle you have the more work you need to put in to keep it growing. Many people reach a limit where they cant grow an ounce of muscle even on a huge surpluss and very hard training anymore,
Same but opposite is with fatloss - you can recomp if you were in a good shape already but then just fucked up for 6-12 months, but you still have some muscle memory under that, and you just gained bunch of fat and now you will only have to RETURN to where your body was used to be.
Unless a beginner or recomping means to get back to the shape you already were, it is impossible as such.
To grow you need surplus, to lose fat - deficit. Cant be on both. What many people call recomp is basically super slow bulks and cuts one after another.
Technically, your body can gain muscle, and lose fat in different periods of the same day. This is what im trying to do with my insulin experiment - on training days i eat all my daily calories pre-intra-post workout, and then i return to fasting and kardio on the next day.
But the thing is that i take insulin pre and post gym, so i HOPE it does what its supposed to do and it just turbo-uses all that food to grow a bit. While i fast i take HGH so i HOPE it prevents me from losing those few grams of muscle i gained before.
I dont think it can be done without slin and GH. In fact, i am still 80% sure i will just fail at this with slin and GH also.
Those guys who make impressive recomps mostly are genetic elite level bodybuilders who have started new cycles, or got onto a new insulin protocol and blast 20iu of GH and also do site enhancement. You can never forget about site enhancement when you look at famous people in fitness world.
If their genetics are the elite level they can diet down, carb load on slin, blast GH, and put synthol into the right places, and they actually will be heavier and leaner - at least for that picture/show/video/IG post.
It actually is not. Its something that is easy to sell because everyone wants it. No one wants to be a skinny fuck while dieting and no one wants to be a fat fuck to gain some muscle. But when you look at pro athletes, competitive strongmen and powerlifters you will see that they somehow are stupid enough to NOT recomp? Why? Because it doesnt work. Its a gimmick that can be sold alongside cool supplements.
Its the same BS in womens fitness where some bimbos sell food plans and training to grow big ass, but shrink waistline at the same time. And it sells good because girls also dont want to be fat to gain that ass and they dont want to diet down their asses and tits for a flat stomach.
The only way “recomp” works is doing somewhat of a mini-bulks and mini-cuts. But you have to understand that it is a slow process. Every time you cut you lose some muscle, so doing 4week bulk and 4 week cut for a year you will gain, lets say - 6months worth of muscle and diet down at least 4 month worth of muscle. Losing fat is much easier than gaining real tissue so most people would bulk for a year and then just cut for 2-3 months therefore losing musch less total muscle.
