What’s inside?
Every recipe has a rationale. The rationales for the recipes I use to lose fat and build muscle revolve around supply, stimulation, and signaling.
- Supply: what you feed your body
- Stimulation: what you do with your body
- Signaling: what the lizard inside of you commands
Of the three, signaling is most important. You can’t consciously trigger fat loss or muscle growth. If you could, you wouldn’t need to go to the gym. You’d be able to say, “Go Go Gadget Gains!” and six-pack abs would appear. This isn’t how it works.
The lizard inside of you determines what will be done in any given circumstance. You can do everything within your power to build muscle and lose fat, but if the lizard doesn’t comply, you’ll stay skinny and sloppy. Unfortunately, you can’t directly change signaling (unless you take steroids or similar drugs). You can only nudge signaling, indirectly, with stimulation and supply.
Here’s how:
Stimulating and supplying for fat loss is almost identical to stimulating and supplying for muscle growth. There’s only one tiny difference.
Fat loss: supply less energyMuscle growth: supply more energy
And so, with this in mind, I suppose uncovering the energetic aspect of our existence isn’t a bad place to start.
(Everything else stays the same.
This is everything else: