Uploaded October 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The Path to your Goal Physique: thinkeatlift.com/path
How to Lose Fat and Gain Muscle at the same time: thinkeatlift.com/how-to-lose-fat-and-gain-muscle-at-the-same-time
My Training Program: thinkeatlift.com/ggp
My philosophy for building a great physique is that you should first lean down to around 9-10% body fat then gain size slowly until you hit 14-15% body fat. You cycle your cuts and bulks in this body fat range until you reach the level of muscle development you're happy with.
This way you never got too fat to lose muscle definition or insulin sensitivity.
Sounds great right? This is a solid way to do things.
But what if you are too slim to diet and too fat to bulk? I get this all the time. People tell me that they don't want to lose weight because then they'll look like they don't even lift and they don't want to gain weight either because they are already pretty fat and don't want to get fatter.
So what should you do in this situation?
Well, let me answer by showing you something.
In your fitness journey you must accept looking bad for a while in order to reap the benefits in the future.
If you're in that purgatory state (meaning you are too slim to diet and too fat to bulk) you're going to have to choose one. If you don't you're barely going to make progress.
If you've been training for less than two years I believe that at any given time you should either be losing weight or gaining weight. Meaning you should either be cutting, or gaining. There is no way you can't make progress doing this.
I believe that body recomposition is not a good option for most beginners because it is very slow. Just to put some numbers out there if the average guy that bulks in his first year can gain 15 pounds of muscle, someone doing a recomp could only gain maybe half that.
So in the end it would take them longer to get to their goal physique.
The Path to your Goal Physique: thinkeatlift.com/path
How to Lose Fat and Gain Muscle at the same time: thinkeatlift.com/how-to-lose-fat-and-gain-muscle-at-the-same-time
My Training Program: thinkeatlift.com/ggp
My philosophy for building a great physique is that you should first lean down to around 9-10% body fat then gain size slowly until you hit 14-15% body fat. You cycle your cuts and bulks in this body fat range until you reach the level of muscle development you're happy with.
This way you never got too fat to lose muscle definition or insulin sensitivity.
Sounds great right? This is a solid way to do things.
But what if you are too slim to diet and too fat to bulk? I get this all the time. People tell me that they don't want to lose weight because then they'll look like they don't even lift and they don't want to gain weight either because they are already pretty fat and don't want to get fatter.
So what should you do in this situation?
Well, let me answer by showing you something.
In your fitness journey you must accept looking bad for a while in order to reap the benefits in the future.
If you're in that purgatory state (meaning you are too slim to diet and too fat to bulk) you're going to have to choose one. If you don't you're barely going to make progress.
If you've been training for less than two years I believe that at any given time you should either be losing weight or gaining weight. Meaning you should either be cutting, or gaining. There is no way you can't make progress doing this.
I believe that body recomposition is not a good option for most beginners because it is very slow. Just to put some numbers out there if the average guy that bulks in his first year can gain 15 pounds of muscle, someone doing a recomp could only gain maybe half that.
So in the end it would take them longer to get to their goal physique.
