Dr. Bret Contreras

I will tell you most of my clients recomp.

They come to me, I attract already fit people who come to me and then I say, do you get enough protein?

They say, yes, I get around a pound per, sorry, I get around a gram per pound of body weight per day.

And I say, good, I'm not going to touch your diet.

Let's just get strong.

And they recomp.

I've had clients that train with me for a whole year.

They stayed 135 pounds the whole year.

And at the end of the year, they show me, Brett, look at my jeans.

I have this crazy, like, five-inch gap of the old jeans they used to wear, meaning they stayed the same weight, but they lost all that, their waist, because you lose fat from the problem areas.

You gain muscle in the muscle bellies that make you look more athletic, and it changes your...

your appearance and your body composition a ton, even though the scale weight doesn't change.

But if you do want a bulking cut, what I will say is just do mini bulks and mini cuts.

Just gain five pounds and lose five pounds.

You don't have to put on 30 pounds.

That's old way of thinking.

And I think it does more harm than good.

Men, we can bulk and we don't mind the way we look a little bit.

We're like, look at, check out Trapzilla.

Women don't like the bulks as much.