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One thing I find a tad irritating about being male and trying to look good (as superficial as it is) is the discrepancy between gaining muscle and losing fat.
by EricDeb 14y ago
One thing I find a tad irritating about being male and trying to look good (as superficial as it is) is the discrepancy between gaining muscle and losing fat.
It seems females only have to go one direction -> be skinny whereas for males we need to somehow add muscle (for which the general advice is eat a lot of food specifically protein) and lose fat. Those seem very contradictory in my mind though I know little about nutrition.
- rmm 14y agoThey don't need to happen at the same time. Lose fat first, build muscle later.
- fingerprinter 14y agoIMO, gaining muscle is much harder to do than losing fat. I would do it the way bodybuilders do it an work to gain muscle then lose fat (unless you are grossly overweight, in which case it probably makes more sense to lose the fat first). Why the difference? Well, losing fat is mostly about discipline whereas gaining muscle is about discipline and very, very hard work.
- gte910h 14y agoI find it far far easier to gain (Beach) muscle than to lose fat I find doing things much easier than constantly not doing things.