Question about muscle gain...

Ok.. If you are a person with low body fat, and you eat to maintain, can you make any muscle gains?? Or Do you have to eat past maintenance to make any muscle gains at all?

Eat past maintenance to make gains.

By definition, maintenance is the level at which you don't gain or lose weight.

It's possible to lose fat and gain muscle at the same time, but it's hard to do. And results are slow.

I think most that are not at the beginner stage will be more likely sacrificing muscle in areas with the least ARs (like calves ) but think they have a net muscle increase because of shoulders or upper body muscle size gains.

The energy for protein synthesis has to come from somewhere.

'Out of thin air' is not an option.

'hard to do' approaches 'impossible' in someone who is already lean (note the OP's inclusion of the phrase 'low body fat'. The higher your bodyfat, the easier it is to do this; and vice versa.

Wait, you just said something intelligent.

What's the occasion?

It's his birthday, he's passed out drunk on the couch, and a friend is posting under his name.

You just happen to be off the meds, otherwise nothing new and rather commonplace.

You might even go back and google a similar conversation we had about this before and reread it with similar comprehension because the message was the same then.

you might turn up the gain on your 'we've been giving each shit for a year or two now and I'm just continuing in that vein' meter.

Or pull the stick out of your ass.

your pick.

What happened to the bulleted posting format? I guess you must still have your mind on that new midget gangbang video.

I pick (A) (1) or whatever it would have been in that format because I'm not an anything up mi arse type like some of the crew here. So when are you gonna pull Styles out of yours though?