Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 2322: Why Your Butt Won’t Grow

Episode Date: April 25, 2024

How the hips are the center of ALL your power. (2:42) Five reasons WHY your butt won’t grow and HOW to make it grow. #1 - Not Training Frequently: Train your butt three days a week. (7:58) #...2 - Doing the Wrong Exercises: Do squats, hip thrusts, and deadlifts. (15:15) #3 - Sleep 9 hours. (19:12) #4 - Change the reps. (21:51) #5 - Eat more (Eat high protein). (25:40) Related Links/Products Mentioned Visit PRx Performance for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! April Promotion: MAPS Anywhere | MAPS HIIT 50% off! ** Code APRIL50 at checkout ** Mind Pump #1370: The 4 Reasons Your Butt Is Not Building Mind Pump #1785: Why Most Women Fail At Developing Their Butt Mind Pump #2155: The Art & Science Of Building Perfect Butts With Bret Contreras Mind Pump #1667: The Best Exercises You Can Do To Develop The Perfect Butt Sleep Deprivation: Effects on Weight Loss and Weight Loss Maintenance Mind Pump #2287: Bodybuilding 101- How To Bulk And Cut The Secret To A Great Butt Guide - Mind Pump Media Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources  

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Starting point is 00:00:00 If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. Mind Pump with your hosts, Sal DeStefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. You just found the most downloaded fitness, health, and entertainment podcast. This is Mind Pump. Right in today's episode, we talk about why your butt won't grow and what you can do to make it grow, make it happen. Now this episode is brought to you by one of our sponsors, PRX Performance. This is home gym equipment that's as good or better than the stuff you see in the gyms, except it's designed to maximize space.
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Starting point is 00:01:17 getting bigger. In today's episode we're gonna talk about why it won't grow but even better we're gonna tell you how to make it grow. I've never seen a perk up so much. Tell me about these, tell me about these ass games. No, actually, actually this is a maybe, um, top three when I think back to clientele, um, that hire me. I mean, I mean obviously, I think we've discussed before that probably 65 to 70% of your clients, maybe more, were females.
Starting point is 00:01:52 And majority of people wanna lose weight, but most people also wanted to build their butt, or they just wanted to build their butt, was probably the number one and number two things that I ever got hired for. This is also one of the goals that I felt extremely confident I could impact in a big way. Me too.
Starting point is 00:02:11 Because losing weight, there's a lot of things you have to do with diet, can be quite challenging, it's hard to maintain because there's behaviors that have to really change or whatever. Building a butt was, when someone came to me and said I want to build a butt, I was like, okay, we can totally do like, when someone came to me and said, I wanna build a butt, I was like, okay, we can totally do this, this is gonna happen.
Starting point is 00:02:27 In fact, I had a success rate of, I mean, 100% with this. Building very easy, the adherence to the steps in order to do that is what's challenging. Yeah. Well, cause they also wanna lose weight or like lose body fat at the same time. That's, yes. Well, the bottom line is the main reason why, um, a lot of women struggle with building their butt is they simply, simply do not train, eat, or sleep to build.
Starting point is 00:02:53 Forget, but just to build in general. Remember the butt is a muscle. It's made up of the gluteus maximus, minimus and medius. Okay. So it's a, it's a muscle complex. It is not fat like boobs or like other parts of the body where you have curves. The butt is a muscle. And if you want to build your butt, you have to train, sleep and eat in order to
Starting point is 00:03:13 build. And a lot of women have struggled with this because for so long, the ways that they've been conditioned to train, eat and live is to lose, is to lose. It's counterproductive. Always low calorie. Yes. And it's, it's very counterproductive to gaining. Always low calorie. Yes, and it's very counterproductive to gaining any muscle at all. So that's what the big challenge is. Yeah, there's a hurdle there of trying to convince
Starting point is 00:03:32 your female client that the approach that we're gonna take towards your glutes is identical to the same approach that I would take with the guy who comes to me and says, I wanna get a huge chest, what do I need? Big arms. Yeah, I mean besides the exercise focus, it's all talking about different muscle groups, right?
Starting point is 00:03:48 Exercises are going to be different, but the approach, diet, recovery, volume, intensity, like exercise. So I mean, a lot of that stuff, that's all going to be the same. And so if you can just get, if you can help them shift their mindset from, you know, okay. And then also understanding too, that your body is always in one or one phase of that. It's either anabolic or it's catabolic. Right.
Starting point is 00:04:13 And to lose body fat, to shrink your waist, to go down, right? To go down is catabolic and to build a butt is anabolic. And so these are two competing signals. And so we have to make a commitment to one of them first. So if you're like the client that Justin's referring to, it says, Adam, I wanna shrink my waist down or lose, you know, 15. I wanna lose 30 pounds.
Starting point is 00:04:38 Yeah, I wanna lose 20 to 30 pounds, but I also wanna build a butt. What we have to agree upon is that, okay, we're gonna focus on one of those primarily first. And by the way, there's a better way to do that too. Exactly, there's a priority there for sure. And so we're going to focus on one of those first, and then we'll focus on the other one,
Starting point is 00:04:55 because trying to do that simultaneously, not that it's impossible, but you're going to see very little movement in each direction, and it's going to take a lot longer, and that a lot of times can be- Yeah, by the way, what you were alluding to, Adam, in terms of which one is better to start with, even if your goal is to lose weight, it's always better to start building. That's right.
Starting point is 00:05:10 Because of the metabolism boost and how that contributes to fat loss. Whereas fat loss initially can typically result in a slow down of metabolism as the body tries to adapt to the reduced calories, which makes it more difficult later on to build muscle. So building is typically where you wanna start. But if you're gaining in your butt, you're gaining. So it's all about building. Yeah, wrap your brain around that for a second though, because you're a female client who comes in,
Starting point is 00:05:42 who's been maybe yo-yo dieting for most of your life, you're struggling with 30 pounds overweight, you come in and you hire a trainer and you tell them that, hey, I really want to lose 30 pounds, I really want to build this butt, and you respond back to her, I'm going to put you on a- We're going to build and put you on a- Yeah, I'm going to put you on a calorie surplus and build and we're not going to cut and we're not going to lose weight right now. That's a really tough thing to overcome. And early on in my career, when I didn't have the words to communicate like what we're doing, that was really difficult to get buy-in from my client. And that's why what you said when we started this was super easy formula, really difficult for the adherence part.
Starting point is 00:06:26 Big barrier for psychologically for the client community. It's also because when you're doing this right, your pants get tighter as your butt grows. Your legs will start to grow a little bit along with this exercise. Scale could go up. Scale, listen, if you don't wanna lose body fat, let's say you're listening to this right now
Starting point is 00:06:42 and you're like, well, I'm okay with my body fat percentage, you know, but I'd like to build my butt. You're gonna gain weight then. You got to be okay with that. So a lot of women who are okay with their body fat and want to build a butt also get discouraged when the scale goes up. It's like, listen, if you're okay with your body fat percentage and we're gaining muscle, that means you're gonna gain some weight on the scale. You may go up three pounds on the scale, but if it's three pounds on your butt primarily, well now you're going to get exactly what you're looking for.
Starting point is 00:07:08 And of course all the benefits that come along with that, which includes faster metabolism, mobility and all those other things. And of course, by the way, muscular glutes really signify health and mobility. This is why it's such a, this is why men and women both like this. Even women like this on a man as well, well-developed glutes because, I mean, we walk on two legs of all the primates, this is how we walk, and we have very large glute muscles in comparison to other primates
Starting point is 00:07:33 because those muscles are responsible for balance and locomotion. And so powerful, strong glutes typically signifies good mobility, good strength, and good health. That's one of the reasons why. Yeah, I always said it's like the hips are the center of all of your power. Yes. I mean, it's all derived from there.
Starting point is 00:07:49 And you're going to display that if you have the large muscles support there to signify that. Yeah, totally. All right, so let's talk about the first thing you can do to really build your butt. Let's talk about training first. In our experience, typically the ideal frequency of how often you should train your glutes is about three days a week. Three days a week for most people works best. Now you'll see people training their butt once a week. Some people are like I'm gonna do it every single day. Three days a week seems to be
Starting point is 00:08:21 the right amount of frequency where you're training intensely. You're not trained to failure by the way, meaning you're not doing an exercise till you can't do it anymore. But you're going pretty hard so you're stopping maybe two reps short of that. But you're training at three days a week. This gives you enough time to recover, repair, adapt, and then hit the muscle again. This would typically look like a Monday, Wednesday, Friday type of routine. And in our experience, this tends to lead to the fastest gains in the glutes. Yeah, it's hard to not talk about our second point while also talking about this point, because in my experience, the women that were trying to build their glutes
Starting point is 00:09:03 understood the frequency thing, but it was the exercise selection, the application of intensity that was really done improperly that resulted in no development. Yeah, because they're like, I'm working out my glutes three days a week. So I never, I rarely ever had a female client that didn't already attempt to build her butt and didn't already have put some significant effort like, Adam, I train it every other day and I do all these exercises and I do these leg swings and glute kicks and jump boxes and this plyometric movement.
Starting point is 00:09:40 And they say they have all these exercises that they've read in magazines or stuff like that, and they've applied that, and they're not seeing the results. So I feel like obviously training three days a week, strength training, training to build, but what you're doing in those three days, which is the second point, it's impossible for me to talk about the first one without not really bringing the second one into the conversation. Before we get to the exercises, let's talk real quick about what training to build looks like. Training to build does not look like circuits.
Starting point is 00:10:14 It does not look like a class. It does not look like a hundred reps. Training to build is like a traditional bodybuilder or strength athlete. Okay. What does that look like? You're doing 10 reps, it's intense, you did 10, you could maybe do 11 or 12 but you stop at 10, don't go to failure, and then you rest for two to three minutes. That rest period by the way is what makes it muscle building and strength
Starting point is 00:10:37 building. It's not the set, it's not the 10 reps that make a strength building, it's the rest. Because if I did 10 sets of an exercise, 10, excuse me, 10 reps of an exercise, 10 reps that make a strength building, it's the rest. Because if I did 10 sets of an exercise, 10 reps of an exercise, 10 reps of an exercise, 10 reps of an exercise with no rest, I'm now doing cardio with weights. I'm no longer doing strength training or muscle building. So you have to do the set and the rest period is what makes it building. So you rest literally. And I have to tell a lot of women to do this. Look at the clock and do not do another set for two or three minutes. Because all of them, almost all of them want to go 20 seconds, I want to jump back in so I can feel the burn and sweat.
Starting point is 00:11:10 No, no, no. You're not building. You have to rest for two to three minutes. You have to allow the ATP, this is a form of energy that fuels strength, to rebuild so you could train the strength systems of the body. Because that's what leads to muscle growth. Otherwise, what you get is a bunch of stamina and endurance and if you want to butt like a long distance runner,
Starting point is 00:11:29 then don't do any rest. And what'll end up happening is you'll have skinny muscles. No muscle at all. But if you want muscles like a sprinter, then you go hard and you rest for two or three minutes. Very, very important point. Well, yeah, as far as we've come with education in terms of like weight training and how to build muscle, I mean, I feel like still the general consensus and the,
Starting point is 00:11:49 what's popular now is a circuit based, is cardio based. Uh, I mean, you still see like stair masters with somebody on there doing a kickback in between thinking that this is, but I am working my butt and I am, you know, doing these things or they'll do like, uh, squatted jumps where they're just kind of going at like a quarter squat on the way down. And then, so range of motion isn't even being achieved. And so I think that there's, you know, there's a lot more to kind of peer into in terms of like what an actual weight training, uh, scheduled out workout looks like. Well, a lot of that coincides with mindset,
Starting point is 00:12:27 with the approach to the workouts. So you both have alluded to one of the biggest mistakes, which is this chasing a burn, chasing a sweat, right? Chasing fatigue, like with this exercise, like, oh, I'm ready. I did my 10 lunges and I'm ready to go. I can do more. Let me add some kickbacks or leg swings in there,
Starting point is 00:12:44 something like that, because I can do more, because I can do, I can do more. Let me add some kickbacks or leg swings in there, something like that because I can do more because I can burn and keep going. And thinking because the butt is burning and because it's working more, shouldn't I get more muscle that way? And that's the wrong mindset. The right mindset is give myself lots of rest because what I like to try on the next set,
Starting point is 00:12:59 I'm gonna see if I can increase the weight. Let's see if I can put even more weight on the bar or add even heavier dumbbells so I can push more weight. And's see if I can put even more weight on the bar or add even heavier dumbbells so I can push more weight. That's what builds. And so it's a strength-focused mindset, not a burn, lots of move, lots of sweat type of mindset. That's really hard to get that client many times to make that shift and understand that there are different signals that you're sending to the body. And one of them is going to give you this great adaptation towards stamina and energy. And that's great if that was your desired outcome, but it's not. Your desired outcome is to build an ass.
Starting point is 00:13:34 If you want to build an ass, then we get strong. You need to build that muscle to move a lot of weight. Therefore, in between sets, I'm thinking, I'm going to rest. Oh, I could go in and out. But you know what? If I rest a little bit bit longer I could probably add even more weight to the bar and adding more weight to the bar is what's gonna build those glutes. Now the counter is often but I feel my butt burn so much when I do five exercises in a row or I do the StairMaster and it gets sore it gets so sore the next day. I surely should be building muscle. You're still working the glutes but you're training different muscle fibers. You're training muscle fibers that are good for endurance and stamina. They use a different energy system
Starting point is 00:14:09 and in order to improve their performance with energy, with stamina, they improve how they use energy. They do not get bigger. Bigger muscles don't have more endurance. Muscles that utilize energy differently have more endurance. Bigger muscles move heavier weight. So if you want to build, you have to train for strength, not for stamina and not for endurance. I use the example of the long-distance runner and sprinter. A sprinter is essentially doing strength training versus a type of running. They're doing a 50 yard or 100 yard dash as fast as they can and they rest for a while. That is like weight training versus a distance runner who's running 15 to 20 miles.
Starting point is 00:14:46 Well, that's stamina. And you look at the two, compare the two. What does a sprinter look like versus what does a distance runner look like? So if you wanna build, you do a set, you rest for two or three minutes, you do another set, you rest for two or three minutes. You do not combine five or six exercises together.
Starting point is 00:15:02 You do not do 50,000 reps to try to make a burn. You're trying to get stronger and if you're getting stronger, you're building. In other words, if you could do a couple more reps or you add five pounds to the bar, guess what? You're moving in the right direction. Alright, so the next point which is what you were talking about Adam is the exercises. And the reason why I say that this coincides with one and why it's so important and why it's hard to talk about is because first we kind of address the mindset, but now it even matters the exercise selection because if you're doing things like kickbacks and dog pees and leg swings and
Starting point is 00:15:36 ice skaters, you know, three times a week, that's great. You're doing all this frequency, but you're doing these, these exercises that are not just don't build a lot of muscle. They just don't know they're not as effective at building muscle so yes the three days a week is important but even more so what's important is or equally important yes is the exercise selection yeah all strength training exercises build muscle and strength but they'd all all build the same amount they're all not created they're not so think of it this way you're trying to dig a hole trying to to dig a big hole. You have a spoon, a shovel, and a backhoe.
Starting point is 00:16:07 The exercises that we're about to list are the backhoe. Now all the other ones that Adam just talked about, the kickbacks and all that stuff, that's a spoon. So you're gonna dig a little bit of a hole, right? But you're not gonna make a big impact. So what are these big exercises that build a lot of muscle? Well, here they are. Squats, hip thrusts, and deadlift, and deadlift variations.
Starting point is 00:16:24 Those are the three main exercise types you should focus on. So if you're training your butt three days a week, then one day you should focus on squats, the next time you should focus on hip thrusts, and then the next time you should focus on deadlifts. Those exercises, those three exercises right there will build more butt muscle than the next 10 exercises combined.
Starting point is 00:16:45 That's how effective they are. And they're so effective and I'm so glad that you narrowed it down to these three and maybe including the variations of those three's because someone's going, oh what about a step up? What about a lunge? What about a Bulgarian split squat? What about, there's a lot of other movements that incorporate the glutes. But when I have a client who wants to build their butt, I am not gonna overcomplicate the programming and teach them every butt exercise. I'm gonna teach them the three biggest ones
Starting point is 00:17:14 that are gonna really put the, and get them strong and good at those movements. And there's a reason why that's so important. Because if this week she does those three movements and then next week she does step ups and side lunges and like these other ones which are good but movements you did not allow yourself to get good at those other three movements to add more weight to the bar which the adding more weight to the bar and getting good at those previous three movements are going to give you
Starting point is 00:17:39 more return on glute size than doing more new unique exercises for your glutes listen you double the weight you can do in a squat, hip thrust, and deadlift and you will see your butt grow. Period. End of story. Those build. Get strong at squats. Get strong at hip thrusts. Get strong on deadlifts. Do each of them one day a week. In other words, squat Monday, hip thrust Wednesday, deadlifts on Friday. Get stronger every single week and your butt will grow. That's just period. These are the ones that you can load the bar substantially with, and the other variations you even mentioned
Starting point is 00:18:10 are all just subsets of these three exercises. That's right. So your hip hinge and your squat. That's really what it boils down to, and why not do that by just something like bi-loaded that's very much just focused on adding more weight to the body. What I also like about these three in particular is even though you still have to somewhat modify intensity on those three days, the hip thrusting gives your body a little bit of rest from like
Starting point is 00:18:39 your squat. That's why it's ordered that way. And so you can set it up in this manner. Yeah, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, it's perfect. Yeah, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and you can pretty much get after those three lifts. Totally. And your body's okay. Now, if you did sumo squats one day, front squats another day, and barbell back squats another day,
Starting point is 00:18:57 that's very taxing. I'm glad you said that. We picked these three exercises and we put them in this order specifically because this is what good programming looks like. This order, this combination is the best order and combination of three days a week that
Starting point is 00:19:10 you're going to get for your glutes for most people. Yes. The next point, and people are going to think, what does this have to do with anything? It's very important. Try to sleep a consistent nine hours every single night. Sleep has a profound impact on your body's ability to get stronger and build muscle. Now I say nine hours and everybody says eight hours but I say nine hours because in my experience when I had clients focus on getting nine
Starting point is 00:19:33 hours of quality sleep they all at least got seven and a half to eight hours of sleep. It just seemed to work out that way. It's like shoot for it. Yes. Yeah so go to bed and then wake up nine hours later, make that a priority. By the way, the studies on this are ridiculous. Like there's one study that I've quoted on the show. This had to do with weight loss, but nonetheless, it was pretty remarkable. It controlled study too, where they had two groups of people in the same calorie deficit, both lost the same amount of weight.
Starting point is 00:19:59 The group that got bad sleep lost half is sorry, 50% more muscle than the other group did. So the amount of muscle you can build with good sleep versus not that good of sleep is profound. So you have to, if you wanna build. You gotta prioritize. You gotta prioritize, and this is every single night. The other part you have to communicate though
Starting point is 00:20:16 with that process, and this was another thing that you had to educate your clients on when it came to what exactly are we doing when we're trying to build? And everybody thinks that when you go in the gym and you do exercises in there is that you're building muscle and you're not there. We're breaking down in there, we're sending a signal to your body. That's the stressor. We're sending a signal for the body to adapt.
Starting point is 00:20:41 The adaptation process, the recovery and the adapting to it happens in your sleep and when you're resting, right? So over after the gym. And so if you don't prioritize that, you're going to limit the results that you're going to get. And so it becomes equally important, like how we exercise, how we feed the body, and then how we recover and we rest. If you neglect that, you could be doing all the right exercises.
Starting point is 00:21:05 But if you are not sleeping and you're not giving yourself adequate recovery and or fueling the body properly, you're not going to get the return. You're not going to get the return on your investment. I'll say this right now. A bad workout with good sleep will give you better results than a good workout with poor sleep. That's how big of an impact sleep will make on your body's ability to adapt and build muscle. So this is very, very important.
Starting point is 00:21:27 I've had clients gain and lose weight just from changing their sleep, not changing anything else. Just getting to fix their sleep and depending on what their goal was, all of a sudden things started moving in the right direction because we fixed this process. And building is, this is very important for building. So try and aim for nine hours of sleep every single night. This will propel your body's ability to build muscle so, so fast. The next one is to change the reps. Now the muscle building reps, we could say would fall in the range of anywhere between let's say three to 20 reps. Let's play within those. That's a nice range that you can play within. So when we say change the reps, you should focus on a particular rep range for a certain period
Starting point is 00:22:09 of time. So okay, for the next couple of weeks, I'm going to try and train at six reps real low. And then the next few weeks, I'm going to try and train in the 10 rep range for a little while. This is important because changing the target of the reps changes the stimulus and keeps things novel, even though you're doing the same exercises, and it tends to keep the body progressing, it tends to avoid plateaus. Yeah, I think, here's an example of where, that's like a generic answer, right, of like, just do those things and you'll be fine.
Starting point is 00:22:39 A more individualized or more specific to this average client to me, I'm gonna to almost always focus in the low rep range to start this client out. Because normally this client is the client that likes to superset circuit, F45, orange theory, short rest periods. And rarely ever did this client come to me and she goes, oh yeah, no, I've been powerlifting
Starting point is 00:23:05 for a really long time, or oh yeah, I give three minute rest periods and I train singles and doubles. And never had a powerlifting client who couldn't grow her butt. That's right, exactly. So because of that. They already did that.
Starting point is 00:23:14 And that doesn't mean the rules that you said don't apply because it's still the same rules, right? You're gonna focus on a rep range for a period of time, three to four weeks, then you're going to move out of that rep range for another three to four weeks, and then move out of that rep range three to four weeks. But I can almost a hundred percent be certain to push that person in the low rep range first, because that signal that you're going to send is so novel to that avatar.
Starting point is 00:23:45 That avatar probably has never trained in the three to five rep range. It's probably never done that. Well, it falls with the first two points we brought up even earlier with the exercise selection. Because even then, just focusing on loading the bar and then having those adequate rest periods, that's a big hurdle for that type of a client.
Starting point is 00:24:05 And then to structure it in a way where now we're doing less reps and they're very much more intentional and then it promotes that kind of rest period where this is what actual strength training looks like, it feels like. Yeah, you're right, good point. It for sure is gonna be new, it's a totally new stimulus. And what's really, and this part is the part that I always love communicating to my client
Starting point is 00:24:28 that's like this, is that what's very exciting about this is that if you do fall into that category that I'm saying that tend to gravitate towards those classes, do circuit training, do plyometric exercises, do low rest periods like everybody tends to do, that is trying to obtain these goals, me getting you to train this way, the gains come on so fast. You know that was my formula. That was my guaranteed formula for someone who needed to build their butt. Three days a week, squats, hip thrust, deadlifts, low reps, and low reps. It was like this was my 100% almost every time. And so you know even though you might have the client fearful of this new way of training
Starting point is 00:25:07 or approaching lifting and dieting this way, if you can get them to trust the process and they actually go all in on this, the gains will come fast, fast and good and strong and you'll see incredible results right out the gates because of how novel it is. So that's the part that I would get clients excited about is that listen, you've never trained this way before and I know that sounds so counter to what you've probably been marketed to or been told before, but if you trust me, I'm gonna show you results
Starting point is 00:25:37 like in weeks time because you've never trained that way. Totally, 100%. And the last point, and this is an important one, we left it last not because it's least important, but we need to make this point and that is that you got to eat more. You cannot build in a calorie deficit. You have to have a surplus of energy, a surplus of calories for your body to pull from to create new tissue.
Starting point is 00:26:00 In this case, it's muscle. However much you're eating now, bump your calories up. And there's a little subtitle here, which is eat high protein. Protein is what gets turned into muscle. Now, more calories from carbohydrates and fats can also help fuel muscle growth. But if you're not eating roughly one gram of protein
Starting point is 00:26:19 per pound of target body weight, then you're not gonna be building as much muscle as you possibly can. So eat more, bump your calories, but also make sure you're eating about a gram of protein per pound of target body weight. That is the formula for building. Well, this is what determines, Kay,
Starting point is 00:26:36 when we first started this conversation, is your body is one or the other. It is either catabolic or anabolic. The amount of calories that you intake determines that. If you are under your maintenance, you are catabolic. I don't care if you do all the best exercise in the world, get all kinds of great sleep, your body will be catabolic if you're in a caloric deficit. And if that is completely the opposite of what you want, if you're trying to build a butt. So we have to be in some, it doesn't have to be a
Starting point is 00:27:06 massive surplus. I'm not asking you to go bulk with a bunch of extra cal, but you need to be above maintenance in a surplus. A few three, four hundred calories above maintenance Yes. Would be plenty. And hitting that those protein targets, but then that then puts you in an anabolic position. And now we are in it, we are priming the body to build tissue, to build muscle, to build the butt. And so that'll be, and then this is the biggest challenge is you come in, I want to lose 30 pounds, Adam, but I also want to build my butt. And I tell you like, listen, we're going to, we're going to lift heavy ass weight. And then I want you to eat a little bit more than we're doing. The psychological part and hurdle is the most challenging.
Starting point is 00:27:46 But again, if that is a novel stimulus, like I'm pretty sure it will be for most of the people, you'll see very positive benefits as far as the gains pretty fast. And what comes also with the building the butt, building the muscle, is the faster metabolism. Which will only- It makes the fat loss way easier.
Starting point is 00:28:02 It's only going to set you up for the shrinking the waist and losing the body fat much better and much easier and a lot easier for you to sustain. Yeah, and I don't say this very often, but so long as you're healthy and there's no other crazy lifestyle factors or nutrient deficiencies or whatever, like if you follow this formula,
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