I’ve helped countless amounts of people grow muscle and get lean with no added exercise. Quite often I’ve taken a person on as a client and I don’t even coach them on training till their nutrition is on point and pretty quickly they’ll get leaner and become more muscular, so why is this? Most people seem to be not eating anywhere near enough protein and are eating a load of junk food. I just increase protein intake and decrease or eradicate the amount of crap in their diet and bingo they drop fat and water and their body is more suited to grow muscle. Quite often a persons body is ‘lagging behind’ in terms of little things that should be recovered even things like a bruise or a cut due to being protein deficient. If a client isn’t eating enough protein when they come to me and think it’s okay to start their training and nutrition at the same time it can take as long as 10 days to recover from their first training session which is a massive hindrance to their progression so ultimately slows down results.
The key is to have the body primed ready for exercise, hormones in the right place, nitrogen balance in the right place and glycogen stores in the right place. Not having these covered will just mean slower results and if your just starting training or ‘starting back’ a lot more pain than is necessary.