Adam Schafer

But again, if you're strength training for fat loss, the goal is to build muscle.

The reason why strength training can be so powerful for fat loss is it can move your metabolic rate in a positive direction.

So it can, for lack of a better term, speed up your metabolism.

It also preserves muscle when you inevitably go in what's called a cut, when you drop your calories below what you're taking in, so you lose body fat.

So the goal with strength training is to build muscle.

So bulking, the process of bulking should be something that everybody who strength trains should employ at some point during the year.

And of course, depending on how much muscle you want to gain or how strong you want to get, that plays a role in how often you do this.

But if you never do this, if you're strength training and you're like, you're never getting a bulk, here's what's going to happen.

You're never, it's going to be very difficult to build muscle.

It's going to be very difficult to move your metabolism in the right direction.

Yeah, so trying to build muscle without going on a quote-unquote bulk diet

will result in very little to no muscle.

So what we're talking about here is pretty much necessary... It's paramount.

...towards building muscle, speeding up the metabolism to set you up for better fat loss, or if you want to get bigger and stronger, obviously you've got to move in this direction.

So we're going to start out with...

figuring out your maintenance, okay?

In other words, you need to figure out how many calories your body's probably burning on a daily basis.

Now, why is this so important?

Because I don't know where to go if I don't know where you're at, okay?

If you don't know where you're at,