What is going on, guys?

Welcome back to another episode of the Eric Roberts Fitness podcast.

I hope that you are having a great day thus far.

In this episode today, we're going to be discussing if you need to eat more calories

in order to build muscle. And specifically discussing if you need to eat more calories in order to build muscle.

And specifically, if you need to eat in what we call a calorie surplus, if you are looking to build muscle.

Because recently, amongst social media, I have been seeing and hearing some chatter about should you be in a calorie surplus, is this just what we

call bro science?

And there's not actual real science to back this up.

You don't need to be.

You can just be in maintenance and do something that we call main gain, for example.

So we're going to discuss all these topics here.

And hopefully you can leave this podcast knowing exactly what you need to do to maximize the amount of muscle you're building,

whatever stage you're in, because that's the first place we could start.

It does somewhat depend on where you currently are in your journey.

For example, if you are somebody who is a beginner to kind of following a real, proper,

structured strength training program, chances are you're going to build muscle no matter what.

And I want to say this.

I know I've said this before on the podcast, but I want to say this again because I see a lot

of beginners who are like scared

that like they can't lose fat and build muscle at the same time. You've heard you had to eat more

calories. That's just not true. You are absolutely going to be able to build muscle. Again,

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