 Question is from Danny girl. I am confused about the whole bulk and cut thing. Can I cut calories and still gain muscle? Okay, so here's the thing with calories. Think about it this way. Calories are, okay, so if I'm trying to build a house, I first have to- You need the material. Yeah, the materials. The wood, the concrete, all the stuff. That's it. So I have to first off have the plans or order the house to be built. There's the signal. We gotta build this house. I'm gonna need the workers. They're the ones that are gonna be piecing the house together. So that's the capability to build the house. But then I need the building blocks. If I have the workers in the order, but I have no cement, I have no bricks, I have no wood, I have no nothing, the house isn't gonna get built. So when you're building your body, you need the signal, which is the resistance training or the workout. That sends the signal. That's like the order to start building. Then you need the workers. That's your body's ability to build muscle. And that comes from, was the signal appropriate? Did I overdo it? Did I underdo it? Am I getting good sleep? All that stuff. But then I need the building blocks. And that's the calories. That's the proteins and the carbohydrates and the fats, which all play a role in building your body. So if you're trying to build muscle, you probably are gonna need more calories than you need to just stay the same. And that's what bulking is. You're giving your body more building blocks to build muscle. And more means above what it takes for your body to stay the same. Now is it possible to eat less calories and still build muscle? It is, but it's also very unlikely. But it is possible. And it's through what's called calorie repartitioning. So what that basically means is, if my calories are low, my body's gonna burn or take some building blocks from my body fat and then use that for building muscle. That's gonna help the process of building muscle. And we see this most often if we do see it in newbies. Somebody who's never touched weights. It's like the Goldilocks window. Right, you've never touched weights. Or even if you're somebody who's trained before, but you haven't trained for the last six months to a year and you've been off and then you get back in the gym. We tend to see this during this time period, but then quickly your body adapts and then you don't see those. And you need, it's unfortunate that we use terms like bulk and cut. Bulk sounds so unattractive. It does. Bulk sounds so unattractive for a client who comes to me and says, Adam, I wanna reduce body fat and build some muscle, but I care. I don't wanna bulk up, right? Because that's normally the follow-up statement too. Yeah, I wanna be tight and firm and I wanna build muscle, Adam, but I don't wanna bulk up. Like how many female clients have told you that before sitting in front of you? And then you have to explain what building muscle. I blame the marketing. I mean, especially for a lot of these cardiovascular machines that they're out there saying like, you're gonna lose weight and build muscle. And you're just like, wait a minute, like what are you talking about? Like we have to decipher what goal it is you're specifically trying to accomplish first and then proceed to the next. But you're not gonna have them both simultaneously. Like they're two opposing animals there that we're trying to do. Now cutting is the opposite. Cutting is consuming less calories than your body's burning. So you think to yourself, how can my body burn more calories than I'm eating? Where is it getting the energy to sustain itself if I'm not consuming enough to sustain itself? Well, your body gets it from its stored energy, which is your body fat. So your body will not go into its stores of body fat unless you're consuming less calories, unless your body thinks it needs to, unless you're consuming less calories, then you're burning. If you're not doing that, if I'm consuming as many calories as I'm burning, or more. It'll just use the calories. Yeah, my body has no reason to go in. It's like this, look, if you're, would you tap into your savings account if you're making enough money to sustain yourself? There's no need to tap into my bank account. I got cash in my wallet all the time. There's absolutely no need. Well, that's what your body's doing. So cutting is the process of eating less calories than your body's burning. Bulking is the process of eating more calories than your body's burning. Now we've gone into the details because you could do them both wrong. You could go, you could bulk with too many calories or cut too many calories. And there's lots of strategies on how to maximize the benefits and minimize the detriments of doing either one. But what we're talking about now is kind of giving you that general overall idea of what they mean. So the second part was, can I cut calories and still gain muscle? Yes, it can happen. Very, very difficult and very unlikely though. So I wouldn't aim for that.