So a friend that is pretty serious into the life was telling me that you should “eat like the body you want.”
What he meant is, say you are 150lb at 15% bf and you want to be 200lb at 10% bf… you should eat the maintenance calorie requirements of a 200lb person at 10% bf and you will grow into just that. Is there any truth to this? Seems to me you would just get fat from all the extra calories coming in all of a sudden?
You’d probably get to that weight at some higher level of bodyfat… Then you would have to train like a mother to recomp at that weight. The spillover beyond what the body can use to make muscle in the short term would be used to manufacture fat.
[quote]Tranzlogic wrote:
So a friend that is pretty serious into the life was telling me that you should “eat like the body you want.”
What he meant is, say you are 150lb at 15% bf and you want to be 200lb at 10% bf… you should eat the maintenance calorie requirements of a 200lb person at 10% bf and you will grow into just that. Is there any truth to this? Seems to me you would just get fat from all the extra calories coming in all of a sudden?[/quote]
Break the giant leap into a series of smaller steps.
[quote]Tranzlogic wrote:
So a friend that is pretty serious into the life was telling me that you should “eat like the body you want.”
What he meant is, say you are 150lb at 15% bf and you want to be 200lb at 10% bf… you should eat the maintenance calorie requirements of a 200lb person at 10% bf and you will grow into just that. Is there any truth to this? Seems to me you would just get fat from all the extra calories coming in all of a sudden?[/quote]
What about when the sums give many different outcomes? For example 200lb at 10% would presumably mean eat the cals for a 180lb lean mass - BUT that could also be said for 360lb at 50% or 280lb at 25% fat - etc etc
Which is why it can never work like that.
If you’re cutting, you should eat for your goal, if your adding (‘bulking’ is a messy word), eating for your goal will just create more fat than muscle. You can’t force feed muscle growth no matter how much you eat, or what your training consists of.
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I think some of you see comments a bit too literally. Yes, as a skinny newb, it took me “eating like the body I want” in a sense to gain any weight at all. Your genetics dictate whether you can get to some certain weight carrying however much muscle, not just how you eat and how you train.
I seriously doubt the guy being spoken of in the OP meant that you should literally eat to be “210lbs at 10% body fat”. That concept makes no sense considering the amount one person may need to eat to maintain that wouldn’t be the exact same for everyone else if they can reach that level to start with.