Make sure you are eating enough food to support your muscle building goals

Further to my post earlier, here is a tip about building muscle.

If you’re going to ask me a question about what is the “best exercise for building my glutes/shoulders/biceps” then you’d better be prepared for me to address your diet.

Aside from a very small set of circumstances (you’re a novice lifter, you’re new to “effective” training, you’re coming off of a layoff from training, or you’re taking drugs), it is unlikely that you’re going to gain an appreciable amount of muscle while you’re in a calorie deficit.

In other words, in you’re trying to lose fat by being in a calorie deficit, you’re probably going to find it difficult (read: near impossible) to gain any meaningful amount of muscle in any specific muscle group regardless of your exercise choice.

If you’re a reasonably experience trainee and you expect to make appreciable gains in muscle mass, you’re going to need to be in a caloric surplus.

Chasing both muscle gain and fat loss simultaneously is a losing battle. Or, as the saying goes, “he who chases two rabbits catches neither”.

If you want to built that booty, delts, or guns you need to consume enough food to support it.