Do I need to lose weight before building muscle?

Normally, we just do what we should do and don’t want to make any changes. Some people are a little fat and they think it’s okay to be a little fat and don’t want to lose weight, but they want to build muscle so that they can look healthy and not so fat, and their clothes can hold up. So if we want to build muscle, do we need to lose weight?

You can’t gain muscle and lose fat at the same time

This sentence has three parts: first, muscle gain, second, fat loss, and third, simultaneous

Even the mainstream thinking abroad is like this, but foreigners have clearly stated that the muscle-building stage is about building muscle, not gaining weight. You still have to stay away from junk food, and you can eat a little more fat. The biggest difference from the fat-reducing stage is:

1. Limit prolonged aerobic exercise

2. More protein intake

3 The most important thing is to consume more complex carbon water, that is, slow carbon intake (any grains, high-fiber staple foods)

Having said that, to build muscle, to increase muscle, to put it bluntly, is to grow meat, you need to have a calorie "surplus". Eating more than you consume. Only what's left can become meat and grow on you. It’s just that the quality of the extra part is very important. It should be mainly composed of some protein and high-quality slow carbon. Slow carbon will not make your blood sugar soar like sugar and white rice, but will release energy slowly. It is more likely to be consumed by you to gain weight and as energy during exercise. If you gain muscle by eating fried chicken legs to get some leftovers, I'm sorry, most of what you gain will be fat.

It seems that if we want to gain muscle we should still lose weight, and we cannot eat junk food, but should eat high-protein food. Moreover, there should be limits on exercise, and you cannot exercise all the time. You should not consume too much food just because you do more exercise. This will not only fail to increase muscle, but may also have a counterproductive effect.