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What's up?
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We're doing the lifestyle podcast with your host, Matt Tack, Doctor Alfred Lessey.
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If I said lifestyle, it's still the full field podcast.
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Oh, nice.
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Always.
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Yeah.
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Answer some questions, man.
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I got a a whole list here.
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One actually came in from our producer Jake behind the camera.
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He's gonna he's gonna ask the question here, so we're gonna answer these live right now.
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And, get some, you know, insight based on our experience, I think, and and just on knowledge
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behind this thing.
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You know?
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Well, I know you got some insight on some of these questions from stuff that you ride.
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So Oh, yeah.
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Here's the first one.
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When bulking, how do I balance building muscle without gaining too much fat?
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Yeah.
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That's an interesting question, man, because, like, everyone always thinks, like, to bulk.
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I mean, you do need to be as an a calorie surplus, for sure.
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Right?
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But, like, you can do that clean.
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The truth is, in my opinion, is it might take you a little bit longer to bulk, to really,
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like, put on size, but not gonna be inflaming your body in the process.
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And overall, maybe feeling like crap just because the stuff that you're putting into your
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body isn't optimal nutrition.
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Right?
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Like anyone could go bulk and eat freaking 5000 calories of Mickey B's, but is that even gonna
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help?
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You know what I mean?
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Because it's just junk.
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You're gonna gain weight from it.
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Right.
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You know, I think of it look like this.
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You know, somewhat one of the thing that we teach in the optimizers program is the building
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the foundation, right, And we always focus on lean muscle mass.
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Like, how are we building that muscular structure?
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Quality muscle.
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That is ultimately, you're gonna create a solid skeletal structure, right, that ultimately then
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leads into, hey, I'm dropping a few LPs.
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I'm building the right foundation.
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Now we can focus on the cardiovascular point.
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So that cardiovascular point is is crucial, but you know, people get in line with, hey, I wanna
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I wanna lose weight as fast as possible, but the reality is, you know, you're choosing to do
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when you choose to, like, operate in the full field lifestyle.
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You're choosing something that you're gonna it's a lifestyle.
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You're gonna be doing the rest of your life.
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For sure.
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So how are we operating that and building the foundation where you're building that muscle
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mass first.
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You're building the structural foundation, and then we're leading into, okay, how can we I
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start optimizing your B02, Matt.
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I think my question I would have like a follow-up question for this person would be,
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what are you bulking for?
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Like, what is the goal?
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Are you bulking?
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Because you gotta shit like, a performance.
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You gotta are you a football player?
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You need your body to put on weight, whatever it might be.
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Then in that case, like, maybe it doesn't matter.
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Just get the get the weight on, right, or if you're power lifter or something, but if you're
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talking longevity, man, like, just take your time to bolt.
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Doesn't, you know, if you want to put on muscle, do it the right way.
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It's going to be a little bit of longer play, but you'll put on quality muscle over time.
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That then is gonna be this healthy metabolically, you know, active tissue that you
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just have on your body forever.
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Oh, sure.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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No.
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It's a it's one of those crucial things that you have to understand.
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What's the long game here?
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You know, our landing game and who we're speaking to right now, is, you know, our guys
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that are probably former athletes that, man, I I've lost it for a while, and I need to get my
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mojo back.
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Yeah.
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And so how do I reduce this weight because I'm kind of like, I'm I'm scared.
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You know, their reality is they're scared, like, because they're metabolic.
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It's coming like.
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Yeah.
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You know, what is it?
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You know, I'm seeing my parents get sick.
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I saw, you know, we're seeing more and more people in their thirties get cancer, and we're
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seeing more and more people, like, as they enter their forties.
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Just so metabolically unflexible.
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Is it inflexible, unflexible?
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I don't know.
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I'm trying to
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get that word.
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It's a
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Yeah.
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But the reality is is like, how are you expanding yourself for the long game?
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And we always think longevity to getting that getting yourself metabolically flexible and one
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thing, you know, to know, just we always hit on this, like, nutritional element.
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It's like, no one you're the cadence of the method of operation in your day to day.
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Yeah.
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Because, like, I don't necessarily wanna load all this food into my stomach in the middle of
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the day when I can't, like, then then my mind is, like, all has all gone to my stomach Yeah.
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Where I can't operate, and maintain that flexibility where I'm optimized.
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I need to focus on that work element that we have in our pillar.
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That's right.
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So I think, you know, the reality is this is when you're you're building up bull.
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I you know, I'm not a big bull guy.
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I'm a I'm a lean muscleman.
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How do I maintain that flexibility?
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Athletic.
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Look.
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Yeah.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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And so that is longevity.
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That's longevity right there.
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Yep.
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So the reality is is that, you know, you just you to maintain metabolic flexibility, yeah,
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it's the long game.
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Build that with muscular structure first, and then we operate in the cardiovascular
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environment where you're building up your VO2 max for the long game as well.
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So that's what it means to live fully fueled.
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Love that.
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Right there.
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Longevity.