12/07/2020
IS IT POSSIBLE TO GAIN MUSCLE AS A NATURAL ATHLETE?
Hope you’re having a great Sunday! The picture on the left is me at 70kg bodyweight in December 2016, and then the picture on the right is me at 82kg bodyweight in 2020. The photo was taken yesterday.
Now, did I manage to gain 12kg of muscle in the last 4 years?
I’ve been training consistently since October 2013 so I was 3 years into consistent weight training in 2016, and 7 years consistent weight training in 2020.
If I measured my current body fat percentage, my prediction is that I wouldn’t quite be as lean as I was in 2016, but my body fat wouldn’t be too different at all. Plus, because I have gained muscle tissue, I can now appear leaner at a higher body fat percentage because of having more lean tissue.
Also, if I compared my strength levels between 2016 and 2020, I am now a lot stronger in all the compound movements, my gymnastics is better, my overall mobility is better etc. and my body fat is pretty much the same.
Train consistently, focus on progressive overload with the compound movements, vary up exercises to provide your body with different stimulus, have the correct nutrition, and you can definitely lose body fat/gain muscle and tone up.
Time to complete your own transformation!
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VERSE OF THE DAY - Proverbs 18:10 - “The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.”