Can You Build Muscle and Burn Fat at the Same Time?

[00:00] For beginners, it's more often the case that recomping actually wins that battle, or at least is close. And if it's close, but it requires significantly less complexity, because at beginners they got enough to worry about it. Eating well, training at the gym, intentional gaining, intentional cutting,

[00:12] it's annoying, it's difficult, it makes them quit. If you just say, look, eat well, train hard, you go for a gear, the results for recomping are so good compared to bulking cutting. Even if bulking cutting beats it on the margins, you can say, look, for very little investment of effort, very low

[00:25] probability, if you're falling off the wagon, recomping works super, super well. There's no compelling reason to switch it. Hey folks, Dr. Mike here from RP Strength. I've been a professor of sports, extra science for a while. I compete in bodybuilding and Brazilian jersey grappling,

[00:40] and I happen to have a head that's shaped like this. I know. Every day I wish I wake up different, but I continue to wake up like this. Luckily, because I have a strange head shape and thus no friends, I have plenty of time to make videos like this one, specifically for you. That's right, if you're at

[00:55] home, you exactly. Today's video is about how to recomp burn fat and build muscle at the same time, but with an extra twist, does it work differently for naturals versus enhanced people, the bad people.

[01:09] People on, as I imagine, Ronnie Coleman says, they're worth. He doesn't really talk like that. That's kind of more like Tyson. Same tone of voice if you ask me. All right. So first, what the hell is

[01:22] recomping? Recompbing is changing the composition of the body without changing the total tissue mass. So you're 140 pounds and you have 12% body fat and some time later, you're 140 pounds, you have 8%

[01:34] body fat and 4% more muscle. Stay well, still weigh the same, but you're visibly very, very different to gain lots of muscle, lots, lots of fat. That is recomping, which means in order for you to recomb in any timescale, over the average of that timescale, let's call it several months, you would

[01:52] have had to have burned fat and built muscle at the same time in the same amount. So if you lose 10 pounds of fat and you're recomping, true recomping, in that same amount of time, you'd have to gain 10 pounds

[02:05] of muscle. That brings us to our first, well, stick in the spokes of the recomping idea. It's a tough goal to recomb for many people because you can usually burn fat much faster than you can build muscle.

[02:18] Realistically, most people can do an eight week diet and burn a pound of pure fat off each week, eight pounds and eight weeks. That's not even impressive by most standards. It's totally great, but most people can do it. How many people can legitimately put on eight pounds of muscle in eight weeks

[02:35] are you out of your fucking mind? Under some circumstances, it is possible and I'll talk to you about those in this video. But recomping is automatically an uphill battle. I don't want to say one does not simply, but it's tough. And even if it's routine, it's tough. Like for a while, they were

[02:53] doing routine space shuttle flights to fix the International Space Station, routine doesn't mean very safe. It doesn't mean very easy. Recomping is plenty safe, but it's just not as effective as you would want it to be because that fundamental mismatch between fat loss rates and muscle gain rates.

[03:08] So if you ever meet anyone that's super, super into recomping and thinks intentional, bulking, and cutting is a stupid idea, they're going to have to contend with the fact that they're really trying to get like a Japanese bullet train to go at the same speed as like a goat

[03:23] that's walking down the street. Is it possible for the train to do it? Yes. Is it the most efficient use of the goat and train's time? Suppose the train doesn't really care. And the goat is just walking along. I don't know where the fuck that analogy went. In any case, you're trying to pair up two processes that occur at very different optimal rates. And so it's inherently going to be a thing

[03:39] that doesn't work best much of the time. That does mean some time is left for it to work very well indeed. It can occur robustly in some cases. Recomping, gaining muscle losing fat at the same time is

[03:51] intentionally very different than what occurs in most purposeful fat loss and or muscle gain phases, bulks and cuts. Most fat loss phases that most people will do, especially if they're not beginners,

[04:04] no muscle is gained, but a lot of fat is lost. That's actually a really great result. If you showed that you lost 15 pounds of fat over four months with no muscle loss, holy shit, are you winning? No one's like, you didn't gain any muscle because you're like, I lost 3-2 pounds of fat and lose any

[04:18] muscle that's unbelievable because anytime you lose fat, muscle loss is at least somewhat of a risk. On the other hand, most muscle gains during bulking periods will result in plenty of muscle gained, but very few situations have a concomitant loss in fat. As a matter of fact, if you just kept

[04:35] the same fat on your body, that would be really impressive because someone's like, oh my god, you gained pure muscle. It's actually true that in most bulking phases, we expect some fat to be gained, so recomping is really far away from these approaches, very far away indeed. I already

[04:49] mentioned that recomping is not the most likely thing that's going to happen and recomping is not the best way to go about things on average. But there are scenarios in which recomping is probably going to work better than not. It's going to be more of a fit in these scenarios than otherwise.

[05:04] And there are a few things that I can think of that take the probability that recomping is the answer for what you should be doing next up just a little bit. Now, it beating the bulking and cutting, bulking cuttings up here. So you got to get enough of these things put together that recomping makes

[05:18] sense, but they all add up. Here are the things. One, when you're young, when you're 15 years old, going on 16, you can recomple like a mothfucker because you are just fresh to the shit in every way

[05:30] possible. Next, if you're male, males have an advantage genetically and via testosterone production for getting jacked and lean at the same time. If you're female, this is less likely to work for you. Having good genetics, people with amazing genetics recomp all the time and they're like,

[05:45] yeah, I don't really ever do cutting phases. I just kind of try to control my food a little bit, not go out too much and stay with 80, but get crazy abs. You're like, okay, Bill, it's nice. You were born perfect the rest of a suck. I got it. Good genetics definitely help. If you

[05:57] don't have great genetics, recomping might barely work for you at all or not at all. Another one is you just started training. Look, if you're a noob, and I'm going to say this later more formally, you can spend your first year and I think it's probably best to spend your first year of training,

[06:11] just recomping. Try not to gain or lose any weight on purpose. Eat well, good healthy diet, have some treats here and there, plenty of protein, so on and so forth. And you're just going to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time because training when it's new to you is like the best

[06:24] steroid of all time. It's a really unbelievable and recomping is a very viable strategy. Another opportunity to recomp and have it work a little better than average is if you elevate your training to the next level from it being at meh to like, oh, now it's serious. For example, you really start to

[06:38] improve your technique. You really start to hone on your reps and reserve your proximity to failure gets really, really good. You increase your frequency. You up your volume within the limits of your recovery, of course. Maybe you go and download the RPI hypertrophy app, which will optimize almost

[06:51] all these variables for you just based on your feedback. When you switch to more formal, much more rigorous training, you can spend several months just like gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time because it's a very special condition. But that condition doesn't last. Once your training is

[07:04] already pretty damn optimized, any further work along the margins just gets you really, really tiny differences. It's not going to let you just recomp all the way into infinity. Another one is you just started eating well. People talk about recomping all the time and you ask them, what were you eating

[07:17] before you started recomping? I'm like, fuck man, twinkies and apple juice. Poor the apple juice on the twinkie. I'd let it sit in my car hood for an hour and then I eat it like, what, what? JK, but you know, very little protein, tons of junk, very irregular eating, whole days of not eating much, whole days of

[07:32] eating tons of pizza. And then some of these folks get to eat in four or five meals of high protein and good veggies, nice decent carbs every day. They do that for a few months while training hard. They recomple like a motherfucker, but that's just they were eating like shit before and now they're eating

[07:45] well. It's definitely a thing. Another thing that can make recomping much better for you is if you elevate your eating to the next level, you go from eating okay to optimizing protein amounts, incorporating mostly healthy foods, structuring your meal timings that you have four or five feeding

[08:00] windows throughout the day, they're roughly evenly spaced. So it's not like you're skipping eight or nine hours of not taking an opportunity to protein feed, which will cost you potential gains. Maybe you download the RP Diet Coach app and it arranges all these variables for you and keeps you on

[08:12] track and you check in with the app all the time to make sure you're doing well. You have that sort of formality. Yeah, you can recom from that and see much better results recomping the typical, but that's only you can only pull that card out of the out of the hat once really like fully near full optimization

[08:27] from that is just was one trick pony and it will work. But you can't just keep pulling it out after that next is if you've just started special sports supplements, which is you know, our little well way we stay on the channel, you know steroids and shit like that to be enhanced. If you just

[08:41] start them, you can recomplic a motherfucker because it's basically going through newbie games all all again. And another thing you can do is elevate your special sports supplement use to the next level. It's usually not a good thing because it's taking years off your life, but it sure, it works to put on

[08:55] the pounds and get you leaner at the same time. So for example, you take more gear, usually you take in 500 migs and test, now you're taking a gram and a half, that's going to make a fucking difference, that's a hell of a recon you can do with that. You can take gnarly or gear, usually you do test

[09:07] and primo, now you had trend and var into the mix, it's going to make a fucking difference. I said higher doses and more gear at the same time, typo, higher durations. So usually you run a gear for

[09:19] eight weeks and then take some PCT or whatever, now you're running it for 16. Shit's going to happen, you run it for twice as long. And if you get someone to coach you in how you take your gear, someone like Joe Jeffery of Physique Collective, for example, I'd look encourage you to look him up, someone like Joe

[09:32] or some of his staff that work for him with a Physique Collective start monitoring your gear use, get a doctor and the mix you optimize everything, you do tons of blood work, you can really optimize. And then recomping becomes much more of a realistic strategy versus just like yeah man,

[09:44] taking a gram test, just look to see how it goes, you get with Joe, you sort to all out, even keeping the same relatively similar amounts, just the substance use, the way you periodize things can make

[09:56] recomping much more likely. Now that brings us to the next question. So we know what makes it more likely and not but we're looking for this break even point of is recomping a good use of your time? Is it the best use of your time or second best use of your time versus bulking and cutting?

[10:10] Here's how you would do this, just as an example. You take how much muscle gain and fat loss you had in your last recom phase, let's say 16 weeks. You multiply the muscle gain by 0.85 or so, 15% less

[10:25] because every muscle gain phase you do, if you're diligent, gives you a little less muscle over time, it's the asymptotic nature of growth. So now you have a realistic idea of what your next phase of recom could look like over the next 15 weeks. You might gain a little bit less muscle and gain

[10:40] and lose a little bit less fat. So for example, if you're last recom phase, you lost eight pounds of fat and gain eight pounds of muscle. For this next phase, you can be like okay 16 weeks, I think I can lose something like six pounds of fat and gain six pounds of muscle. Maybe that's something that

[10:54] obviously these are insane numbers, you'd have to divide everything by three. Let's say you're really tailored in for recom. Figure out how long that phase was 16 weeks, divide that time into two phases, roughly even. In this case, eight weeks of muscle gaining and then eight weeks of fat loss,

[11:08] try that instead. Instead of doing the recom, try to divide the phases into a purposeful bulk and a purposeful cut. Are reasonable, of course. If you can gain more muscle and lose more fat in two phases of bulk in cutting versus one phase of recom, then recom ain't it in most phases. For advanced

[11:24] lifters, this is usually the case. If you tell an advanced lifter who's already training art, already got good diet, already got good everything, okay, I want you to do a recom. They're like, are you seeing me maintenance? No, I mean, put on muscle and lose fat at the same time. They're going to be like 16 weeks of that, man. I'm going to put on a pound of muscle and lose a pound of fat, bro.

[11:38] I don't know what the fuck you want me to say. But if you let them split it into two, eight week phases, they're like yeah, I can reasonably gain around a pound, maybe pound and a half of muscle and lose like five or six pounds of fat. They're like, well, that really just does seem better because

[11:52] bulking and cutting really is superior to recomping because you're giving yourself the advantage of a hyperchloric diet when you're gaining huge and a hypochloric diet when losing fat also huge. That's why bulking and cutting works so goddamn well. For beginners, it's more often the case that

[12:05] recomping actually wins that battle or at least is close. And if it's close, but it requires significantly less complexity because like beginners, they got enough to worry about eating well, training at the gym, intentional gaining, intentional cutting is annoying. It's difficult. It

[12:18] makes them quit. They just say, look, eat well and train hard. You go for a gear. The results for recomping are so good compared to bulking cutting. Even if bulking cutting beats it on the margins, you can say, look, for very little investment of effort, very low probability of you falling off the

[12:31] wagon, recomping works super, super well. There's no compelling reason to switch. It's like, if you already have your route plan, plot it out and you're on this big, nice freeway, but there's like a car accident, like 15 miles in front and Google Maps is like, would you like me to reroute you? You can save

[12:47] one minute and you're like, the one minute is going through all kinds of fucking weird back roads and shit. Some of them are unlabeled. You're like, then fuck that man. I'm trying to get to the concert hall. Whatever, two minutes is not a big deal. But if it's like, hey, like this rerouting, you're going through the Colorado Rockies. It's like, we can reroute you and save you three hours.

[13:02] You're like, yeah, yeah, hey, three hours makes fucking sense. So a lot of times bulking, cutting is just categorically better anyway. But if it's going to take you a lot of work and a lot of new sense, and look, you start cutting. You can't go to events anymore, blah, blah, blah. It fucks your whole life up. If you're recomping yield is close to the bulking and cutting, then whatever, it's like staying

[13:19] on the same road with Google Maps. It's no big deal. You don't have to go. But if it's three hour delay, so to speak, then it really becomes a difficult question. So in general, beginners will benefit from recomping significantly more than folks that are more and more advanced. recomping is

[13:34] the thing you used to be able to do that in the future, you can look forward to doing substantially less. But what about natties and enhanced? So let's get to that. Here is the recom guide for natties. If you're natural, that is to say you are perfect and morally pure and to better than everyone else.

[13:48] Figure out if recomping beats bulking or cutting or a better comparison is how close does it compare in your case, kind of how you've had recomps go in the past, bulks and cuts go in the past, which one works better for you. If you do want to recomp, make sure you're eating plenty of protein,

[14:03] grandpa pounds or so, mostly healthy food, aim to keep your weight relatively stable. Consider during the week, having some days, a couple days in a row of a little bit of a surplus,

[14:15] 250 to 300 calories, and then a couple days of a little bit of a deficit. That kind of gives you a mini cut and bulk internally. It's not a huge deal, but it can help a little bit. Obviously, progressing your training from lower to higher volume and intensity, like you normally would, maybe

[14:30] using the RPI hypertrophy app, something like that, and you can continue to recomp until and unless the following happens. Changes in your rep strength, how strong you're on the gym, and your appearance become too small to notice. Then you've got to begin to bulk and cut again.

[14:44] What do I mean by that? If you're just stuck in stronger after weeks and weeks of training, it's very difficult for us to create an narrative where you're actually gaining muscle. You're probably not gaining muscle, so fucking stop doing what you're doing, unless you're losing

[14:57] uddles of fat, then keep doing it. So you come back to the appearance side. Do I look noticeably leaner week to week or every two weeks? If the answer's like a fucking god honest between you god and your fucking mirror, no, you try to look same all the goddamn time, then you make the switch. But

[15:13] if you're still getting stronger for reps and you're looking kind of different every few weeks, hey, keep recomping. Remember I said that for beginners recomping is a really good idea for like the first year, maybe even longer. In the first year of training, beginners will be able to get stronger

[15:28] on every exercise. A lot continually for months and months and months and months. And just maintaining their weight, they're getting so much muscle that they're losing so much fat that they look very different every couple of weeks. Like, well, holy shit, like I'm seeing you new shit, I'm seeing

[15:40] new striations, blah, blah, blah. If that's the case, he fucking keep going. That's one of the big things I want you guys to take out of this video is if a recomps is working fucking well, do not fucking start bulking and cutting goddamn it. You have a very special thing. Just try to keep

[15:54] doing what you're doing. It's fucking awesome. But if you're kind of running a ground, then you know, goddamn, it's time to make the switch. A quick stupid analogy is if you're on a date with someone

[16:06] and the conversation is flowing and you guys are off on some topic, you're like five topics deep, you don't even know what you're talking about anymore, but just connecting everything's fucking awesome. You're just like words are coming out blah, blah, blah, I'm finding a ton of commonality. Don't think back during that talking to the kind of, you know, you have to figure out something to

[16:21] talk about. Fuck, you know, you got something to talk about. Shut up and just let it flow. But if the date has come to a place where she's just sitting there like, yeah, so and you're like,

[16:33] when you better come up with some shit to talk about because the shit currently isn't working. So recomps is good until it's not good anymore. How do you tell us not good anymore? You're not getting strength for reps for a few weeks. Maybe longer if you want to push the

[16:45] really really see if free copying is working or not. And if your appearance isn't changing in any realistically notable thing now, one quick thing to call out. If you got a squint into the mirror and try to see shit, stop recomping, stop, right. You're just trying a lot of yourself.

[17:01] Appearance changes have to be pretty fucking obvious. You got to be like, yep, yep, yep, shit's working. Imagine how you look differently every two weeks on a real, gnarly fat loss phase. You don't look the same. You don't look remotely the same. That's for real

[17:13] results. If it's not something like that, if you can't tell unless you squint and then you still can't tell and you got to lie to yourself, recomping is fucking stupid. Go back to Balkan. Cut it.

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[17:37] Get yours now. Now, what about recomping for the enhanced generally all the same advice is for Nadis, but with a couple of extra nuances because of the gear situation. A really good time to recomp is during the introduction of gear of enhancement or on its escalation

[17:54] or even on a blast. So for example, some people were generally run TRT and then I'll take a few months out of the year to run much higher doses. When you're running much higher doses, you can absolutely recomp because it's way more than you've ever taken. Another one is you start at TRT and over several

[18:08] months you go up to higher doses and then you taper back down. That is a really, really good opportunity to recomp. If you've just started gear, you weigh, let's say you started at 230 pounds. You've been training for 10 years. You're 29 years old. It's time to do it. Supervision of a doctor. You live in the

[18:24] United Kingdom, so it's decriminalized all as well. For the first six months of using gear, I'd say stay weighing whatever you work. 230, 230. Stay at 230. That's going to be really, really good for you because you don't have to move anything else. You're just going to gain a crap lot of muscle and lose

[18:38] a ton of fat just having made that introduction. Just aim to keep body weight the same as more gear is layered in. Here's what's going to happen though. Gear not only makes your muscles grow, but it fills your muscles up with much more water than they used to and the rest of your body also with water. So if you

[18:53] try to keep your weight roughly the same after starting gear for the first time, you're actually in a deficit. It's a hypochloric condition because muscle for every calorie you put into it

[19:06] ends up actually, you can build a same amount of muscle tissue as fat, but muscle as fewer calories required to store in it. So it turns out that to replace fat and muscle, if you're adding a bunch of fat and losing a ton of muscle, it's a good, good, good god, adding a bunch of muscle and losing

[19:19] what you're fat at the same time. You're technically in a bit of a hypochloric condition because fat has more calories in it than muscle does. So you might feel like your hypochloric and you might actually be like, oh, fucking hungry, man, this recap sucks the fuck, but if you keep your weight the

[19:33] same and you just get on gear, you are going to gain tons of muscle, no problem, but also lose a fuck load of fat at the same time. If you let your appetite dictate, you're probably going to gain like 15 or 20 pounds. You're probably going to gain a very little fat in a ton of muscle, but

[19:50] that look is going to be different because you've gained a lot of weight, it's going to make you feel like shit. I would recommend for most people when they're jumping on gear, try that recomp thing, whatever body weight you jump down gear on for the first six months, don't let it change. If it's

[20:03] going up or remove some food or move some cheat meals, you're going to get fucking shredded and jacked at the same time. Once you are jacked and shredded and the recomp has come to an end, then you can start to bulk and cut, but now you're way leaner than normal and more jack than normal, and it's actually

[20:19] healthier for you to be leaner than average when you're on gear because the gear is independently bad for you, extra body fat makes that way, way worse. If you do this recomp situation and at the end of it, let's say you did 12 weeks, you're really fucking lean and much bigger. If you want super, super

[20:34] ultra lean, you might have to intentionally dip into a purposeful fat loss phase for like 48 weeks at the end, 48, 4 to 8 weeks at the end, 48 weeks got 48 week fat loss phase later. Then once you drop

[20:47] into a true deficit, how do you know you're going to feel a lot hungry and you're going to feel kind of an energy reduction like on that training's hard, walking around as hard, then you're going to get that final touch, super crispy lean and that's going to be awesome. That probably won't happen with

[20:59] just recopping for you. So if you do that, give that some thought. That might work out super well. That's how to do it for enhanced people. Lastly, main points to take out of this thing, take away from this YouTube video for beginners, intermediates and advanced beginners. Stay natty. You know,

[21:14] need drugs and they're super fucking bad for you and they fuck up everything and they're legal ones all fucking dumb shit. We have a lot of other videos on why you should probably stay drug free. You can search for them in the YouTube for beginners recomping and probably should last at least a year from

[21:27] putting another way for beginners. The two things we're looking for in a recon working, we're getting stronger for reps and we're getting visibly changed in our how we look in the mirror and pictures. That's going to be happening for a year for most people just to recon for a year. It'll be the

[21:40] easiest work you've ever put in to get the most results you'll ever get. Don't fuck that up. It's awesome. Just fucking do it. And if you clean up your diet at some point during that time more, any Christian training amount and seriousness over time, maybe get in the RP Diet coach app, maybe in

[21:54] the RPI Pertrophy app, which isn't designed for beginners, it's really designed for intermediates on both ends. If you start to make those changes, you may be able to recon for two or even three years and get great, great results. Intermediates folks that have usually been lifting for three years and longer also stay natty. Stereoids are for advanced people and not even for most advanced people.

[22:11] They're not for intermediates. They're getting great gains still. You don't have to fuck up your health and your psychiatry and all the other stuff. So stay natty. Recomp almost always after active rest phases. In an active rest phase, you take two weeks of super easy training and generally drop a

[22:23] little bit of muscle and put out a little bit of fat. When you restart training, your body's so fresh to training, it's a committee new phase again. And because in an active rest, you have a good diet, not a great diet. As soon as you start training again and eating really well, your body's going to

[22:35] recomp like crazy. So I'd say the first two to six weeks, returning from an active rest phase, you can just recomping it, amazing results. And then start dieting down or massing up or whatever you want to do. And in general, as an intermediate, you could still do some recomping if you've done

[22:50] that assessment we talked about earlier in the video. And you legitimately think it's worth your time because it could just bapy worth your time. And then you're doing something that you like, but isn't working super well. At the end of the day, you're probably watching this channel for getting tips

[23:04] on how to get your best results. If you don't want best results, my jokes aren't that funny. My voice isn't that ASMR-y. Scott, when are we going to stop doing this bullshit fitness and get into pure ASMR channel? Film the next. Is that how they do it? Yeah, like Slurgon, Vaughan Nears. Yeah, Scott and I

[23:25] tried, we were in Vegas for work a while ago. We tried to watch an ASMR video, like one of the top searches. And it's something like girl who, you know, is a person that looks like they can have sex. And she's doing this like lip popping shit. I was like, I didn't get it. When is the hand job video?

[23:41] It never occurred. So we stopped watching five seconds into it. We really did the diligence on that when Jesus Christ. All right, main points for advanced. This is where it gets a little bit different. You can recomp after active rest phases. I'd recommend at least a two week recomp after active rest

[23:56] and then go do your bulkier cut over whatever you're going to do. In general, if you're advanced, bulking cutting is probably going to be best. If you want more insight into how and why that works, metal handselman, who has an amazing YouTube channel, talks incessantly, I would say, I'm kidding,

[24:08] at great length about why recomping is actually quite effective. And also why most people shouldn't be doing it, especially advanced people, because he's really good about explaining why when you're advanced, bulking cutting are just so strategically awesome, because they are so favored in their own

[24:23] conditions. They make the overall process so much better that recomping is like, it can work and it does. Even in advanced people, recomping can put on a little bit of muscle and lose a little bit of fat, but whatever recomping can do in the advanced, in most cases, bulking and cutting can just do better.

[24:35] Straight up. Unless you're enhanced, when you're enhanced, you become enhanced. Recomping is great until some of the following things occur. You want to get bigger than ever. You can't recomp your way to 250 pounds from way into 30. It's literally impossible by definition. If you want to get

[24:49] stage lean, you're not going to recomp into stage lean nine times out of 10, so you're going to have to do it actual depth. And then if you want any of those two things, or you've been using drugs for a while, and you want overall best results, it's time to start bulking and cutting again. We have a lot of

[25:02] other videos about steroids and how to not do them and how to do them, the risks, the dangers, the possible upsides, so give those a search. RP strength has tons of videos on that. Be smart, don't do anything stupid. And just remember that recomping is a thing that you can and should take

[25:17] advantage of when the getting is good. But when the getting is no longer good, which is to say, your rep strength isn't improving in any noble way after some weeks of trying, and your appearance looks damn to the same, then it's probably bulking and cutting is going to win that one. Come back

[25:30] to recomp when you're ready for it, but generally speaking, the more advanced you are, the more it's going to be time to bulk and cut. The less it's going to be time to recomp. Folks, I've been Dr. Mike, and I don't know, man, do you guys like the sweatshirt? Just look out at a Walmart. It's cool.

[25:45] It's got dog hair on it. Shit, I'm glad I'm not a like a video dating site. See you guys next time.