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Quick Wits: The Surprising Reason You Don’t Look Like You Lift · Wits & Weights | Strength & Fat Loss Over 40

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  Philip Pape: Think that spending more time in the gym is how to look like you lift.
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  Philip Pape: Think again.
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  Philip Pape: There's one surprising reason that most people are doing that prevents them looking like they want to and getting results from all that hard work in the gym, and we're going to talk about that on today's Quick Wits.
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  Philip Pape: Welcome to the Wits and Weights podcast.
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  Philip Pape: I'm your host, philip Pape, and this twice-a-week podcast is dedicated to helping you achieve physical self-mastery by getting stronger, optimizing your nutrition and upgrading your body composition.
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  Philip Pape: We'll uncover science-backed strategies for movement, metabolism, muscle and mindset, with a skeptical eye on the fitness industry.
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  Philip Pape: So you can look and feel your absolute best, let's dive right in.
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  Philip Pape: So you can look and feel your absolute best, let's dive right in.
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  Philip Pape: Welcome to another QuickWits, your favorite mini episode for no-nonsense fitness advice.
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  Philip Pape: Today we are tackling a common frustration, in fact, one of the most common I experience, and that is why, despite all your effort, you might not look like you lift.
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  Philip Pape: And the answer might surprise you maybe not if you've heard my stuff, but there are a lot of misconceptions and mispriorities.
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  Philip Pape: I'll call them that.
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  Philip Pape: For example, being super lean is the only way to showcase your hard-earned muscle and all you've got to do is lose weight, or I just need to work harder or more in the gym, you know.
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  Philip Pape: But here's the truth that most people are just avoiding, and that is that building visible muscle is not about the volume or the quantity.
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  Philip Pape: It's about spending the right amount of time building muscle.
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  Philip Pape: Now, yeah, you've gotta be doing it right, you've gotta be training hard, you have to be applying all the principles we talk about, but one of the most honestly the first filter I go through here is people simply are not spending enough time because you've got two sides of the equation You've got the muscle building and you've got the fat cutting or the lean part and people spend way too much time trying to lose weight or lose fat.
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  Philip Pape: Maybe they've built some muscle, but they just haven't spent that substantial, meaningful amount of time putting in the work to build muscle.
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  Philip Pape: And it takes more time than most people realize, especially if you're a natural lifter, like we all are listening to this show.
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  Philip Pape: It is a slow and steady process, not just months in some cases, but years.
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  Philip Pape: Just hate to break it to you.
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  Philip Pape: That's the truth.
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  Philip Pape: But the cool thing about that is, if you know it and you take the time, it will pay off for the rest of your life.
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  Philip Pape: So the foundation of muscle building is having an environment for growth.
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  Philip Pape: We call that anabolism, right, an anabolic environment, and you're not going to get that in a deficit.
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  Philip Pape: And you're not going to get that in a deficit and you're not going to get that very effectively at maintenance.
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  Philip Pape: Yes, I've talked about body recomp.
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  Philip Pape: Yes, a newish lifter can do it.
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  Philip Pape: Even a more advanced trainer can do it if you want to take a long time to build the muscle.
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  Philip Pape: But if you want to maximize and optimize and I don't even mean optimize, I just mean do it time efficiently so you're not taking years to do it and you don't get frustrated and lose patience To do that, you've got to be in a calorie surplus and it doesn't have to be a big surplus, and that's the main condition, along with the right amount of protein and such.
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  Philip Pape: But honestly, the surplus alone is going to give you most of the benefit.
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  Philip Pape: And as far as what surplus to go at, that's where we can get into nitty gritty talk about numbers.
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  Philip Pape: What I will really reiterate here is that the evidence shows us a rate of 0.2 to 0.3% of your body weight per week is a pretty solid range for most people.
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  Philip Pape: Yeah, you can go a little more aggressive at the risk of a little extra body fat.
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  Philip Pape: If you go less aggressive than that, it's just going to take a lot longer.
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  Philip Pape: And so 0.2 to 0.3%, it isn't that much, it really isn't.
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  Philip Pape: It comes out to for most people maybe a hundred or 150 calorie surplus a week, that's it.
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  Philip Pape: Or I mean a day a hundred, a hundred, a hundred, a hundred to 150 calories surplus a day, that's it.
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  Philip Pape: And it's a controlled approach.
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  Philip Pape: It minimizes fat gain, it's still going to support building muscle and it does it in the most time efficient way, so that within at least five or six months okay, and that's the part people miss out at you're going to build a decent amount of muscle, right.
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  Philip Pape: And so part of this is mindset.
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  Philip Pape: I get it.
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  Philip Pape: We are prioritizing all the things like progressive overload, like training hard, and yet you give up after a month, right, and even the progressive overload and the training hard piece often can't bear real fruit until a good three, four, five weeks in of doing the same lifts and progressing them, because you get past that first learning and skill development phase the neuromuscular adaptation we call it and you get to the point where you're actually pushing your limit.
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  Philip Pape: That's one reason it's really important to take the time and never forget recovery is a big part of this Rest, nutrition, stress management, quality sleep, all of that but they do actually get easier when you're in a calorie surplus.
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  Philip Pape: The other thing, don't forget building muscle for nine months or 10 months out of the year and dieting for only one or two at most is a wonderful place to be.
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  Philip Pape: Once you're in that rhythm, to be able to just eat almost whatever you want, right?
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  Philip Pape: I mean, again, you're sticking to like an 80-20 whole food to whatever else diet, but you've got so much more flexibility and you can fit it with your seasons, right.
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  Philip Pape: You can fit it with the building season, the winter season, when you have the holidays, when you're eating, when you're traveling, all of that.
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  Philip Pape: So to everyone out there wondering why you don't look the part and you're doing what you think, you're doing everything and the one thing missing is just time and putting it in because of a little fear, maybe, of gaining fat, right, consider how you're structuring your overall growth phase, your programming, and are you giving it enough time?
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  Philip Pape: Are you taking the right strategy to embrace the slow but actually optimal and effective build, focusing on your nutrition to fuel of that.
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  Philip Pape: Keep pushing the weights.
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  Philip Pape: Whether it's the weights or the reps, or something has to continue going up and the gains will absolutely 100% come to you and they will last.
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  Philip Pape: That's it.
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  Philip Pape: Spend the time You'll look like you lift.
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  Philip Pape: Until next time, keep lifting, keep learning.
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  Philip Pape: Let's build those gains that show that you are committed and you are serious about doing this the right way.
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  Philip Pape: Thank you for tuning in to another episode of Wits and Weights.
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  Philip Pape: Until then, stay strong.