Gaining fat with muscle usually occurs when you add plenty of muscle in a very short period. That occurs in the muscle gaining process. It is inevitable and you have to know and agree with that if you want to gain muscle mass. Calories are a must and the more the better if you want to gain bigger muscle mass to your body. For the extra calories, you can’t direct where they go, some of them will go for growing your muscle, some won’t. And the left calories would generate fat.
If you want to make your body shape changes in a short period of time, you should focus on gaining muscle mass in a period of time and then focus on losing additional body fat in another period of time.
The level of muscles plays an important role in determining the rate of metabolism, so the more muscle you have, the more fat that you can get rid of. For this reason, having a high level of muscle is important and is the best plan.
According to this theory, your weight gaining goal should be: grow your muscle as big as possible and gain fat as few as possible. During this first phase, your goal is not to get rid of fat- only to avoid gaining too much of it.
It can be accomplished by three ways.
Count the exact additional calories you need.
Instead of talking about “optimal nutrition”, we are going to talk about “super nutrition” here. Getting extra calories is needed to make your muscles larger, but eating as much as you can of random foods beyond what you need to make your muscle tissue larger will cause you to gain more fat than you should.
It is better to control your extra calories for gaining your muscle at 15 to 20 percent of your daily calories needs. If your additional calories intake is in this range, then don’t get more calories.
Watch out your food choices.
Most of the extra food should be in the form of lean proteins, carbohydrates that are high in fiber and unsaturated, healthy fats. Instead of eating everything you see; eat more of your sources of lean protein in order to keep stable blood sugar levels with the right choices of carbohydrates and avoiding too many saturated fats.
Start your cardio sessions.
Cardio workout is less important for build bulk muscle, but it will help you gain less fat. You don’t need to go overboard, it is just an additional workout. Cardio workouts don’t need to be long. Keep it short but high intensity. 10 to 20 minutes long workouts are perfect type for keeping from losing muscle mass.
You can turn into fat loss exercises and concentrate on that to slash you body fat and try to maintain your muscle mass after you reach a certain muscle level that you are satisfied. Fat and muscles go along together. You can’t avoid that. Gaining some body fat is inevitable and the trick is simply to minimize it rather than totally avoid it.