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Build for Health with Srdjan Injac · Aug 13, 2026 · 29m

A calorie deficit takes energy away. Building muscle demands it. Whether you can do both at once depends almost entirely on where you're starting from, and the answer for a beginner is not the answer for someone ten years in.

Exercise order comes next. The case for doing compound lifts first has nothing to do with those lifts being better. It's about energy: what a squat asks of you versus what a leg extension asks, and what happens to your form once the tank is empty. There are limits to that rule, and they're worth knowing before you treat it as gospel.

Then the timeline questions. One…