Of course you did you just gained less than if you were to be in a calorie surplus.
It's like saying I cut the lawn with a scissors and it took me 10 hours. If I had used the lawn mower I could have done it in 10 mins.
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Okay so the key is to eat more?
Based on your logic, if I eat 5k calories after working out, I’ll gain less muscle than if I eat 10k calories? What about 15k calories? Will I look like this?
These guys are pure clowns. Can’t even wipe their own asses and their hearts and livers are shot by 40. Inverse of athletic.
Exactly the straw man I just described.
How am I misrepresenting your argument? If you eat more then you’ll get bigger muscles. If you eat less then your muscles won’t grow as much. So the key is to eat as much as possible right? Or maybe there is more nuance. Maybe there is a limit to how much muscle you can grow in a given week. Maybe.