Thread 76466013

If you lift and don’t eat enough calories, why don’t you gain muscle? The muscle fibers are torn, doesn’t your body need to rebuild?

Your body turns proteins into energy, in a large caloric deficit it will prioritize that more and more

>>76466013 (OP)
hormones

>>76466022
>Your body turns fats into energy if you don't eat enough (carbs)
>Your body turns proteins into energy if you don't eat enough
So what am I supposed to do then

>>76466198
You eat.
If you're fat, the body will burn up fat to make up the deficit, but you still need to eat protein.

>>76466013 (OP)
I don't bother measuring my food and the only thing in I do is ballpark protein to be above 90-100g. I am at the same weight for months therefore I eat at maintenance. Even though I'd prefer to not get fat (I'm upper tier of normal BMI), lately I have started eating slightly more and I can lift a bit more.

>>76466022
So why does your hair and nails continue to grow?

>>76466198
Eat enough carbs (or keto) so that your body uses that as energy

>>76466621
Hair and nails have all completely different growth priorities than random musclemass
Your body just prioritizes those

If you're in a deficit your body will still send signals to repair the microtears but it will obviously not have ample supplies of energy to build more than was there before so it just does its best to preserve it.

It would appear that /fit/ skips gets
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or not
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>>76466677
newfag filth, go the fuck back to telegram

>>76466022
Then why don’t your muscles stay permanently torn?

Even if they were to rebuild slower, they’d eventually rebuild right?


>>76466039
Bullshit answer

>>76466667
Oh interesting. So as soon as muscle repair starts you should have a surplus of protein and calories in your system?

>>76467952
It’s a constant flux, your body never really stops working

>>76466013 (OP)
Muscle fibers aren't real.

>>76467962
Sure, when you're awake.
When you go to sleep and your brains switch off then nothing really happens until you wake up and then your body turns on again. The brains are like the computer of the body and when you turn it off for the night then the many calculations cannot happen.

>>76468008
Oh yeah? Then why did I coom in my sleep the other week?

>>76466198
Recomp
Eat good, work out hard, rest well

>>76466013 (OP)
There are a number of reasons to do with hormones, CNS activation, neurotransmitters, insulin/bloodsugar, and catabolic/anabolic states.
A lot of these go up and down with a caloric surplus or a caloric deficit. On top of this the definition of a caloric surplus is a bit vague and hard to define.

an example might be: you eat a shitload of food, your body begins digesting it and signals to your brain to release more dopamine than normal. Dopamine helps recruit more muscle during exercise and importantly more recruiting of muscle will strengthen synaptic pathways leading to more recruitment in the future.
Now that more of your brain is synaptically linked to do X exercise there is more available bandwidth on the CNS to allow for more muscle growth as a result.

There is probably some feedback function of the CNS in this case where parts of the CNS that were recruited for muscle use and not actually connected or used directly with muscle will signal the muscle to grow to meet this surplus of CNS.

this is just my understanding, could be complete bullshit.

>>76468008
Is this a meme? You release HGH when you sleep and do most of your healing in your sleep

>>76466013 (OP)
Muscle damage is not a stimulus for growth

>>76466013 (OP)
because i dont gain muscle on enough calories either

>>76466013 (OP)
thermodynamics nigger