The Mind Muscle Connection

A Better Approach to Building Phases Outside of Fat Loss | Ep 755

• Jeff Hoehn

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Welcome to the Mind Muscle Connection Podcast

In today’s episode, I break down a better way to run a building phase. A lot of people come out of fat loss and either stay too conservative with calories or keep pushing body weight up the entire time thinking that’s what they need to do to build muscle. Both approaches tend to backfire in different ways.

I go through how I now set up building phases for myself and clients, the common mistakes I see, and why most people would benefit from letting body weight come up a bit, then stabilizing instead of constantly chasing scale weight. The goal here is to improve body composition long term without unnecessary fat gain or staying stuck in a low energy state.

Let’s talk about:

  • Coaching updates and working with clients
  • Dopamine habits, phone checking, and awareness around distractions
  • What a better approach to building phases looks like
  • Mistake 1 keeping calories too low after fat loss
  • Mistake 2 constantly pushing body weight up during a bulk
  • How much weight to gain before stabilizing
  • What “feeling your best” actually means
  • Energy, recovery, digestion, and performance markers
  • Blood work and additional health markers
  • Who typically gets stuck in these patterns
  • Why this approach works better long term
  • Training quality matters more than constantly increasing calories
  • Why this limits unnecessary fat gain
  • Staying in healthier body fat ranges
  • What actually drives progress in a building phase
  • Sleep, stress, and recovery considerations
  • What to do when body weight stabilizes
  • Adjusting calories up or down after stabilization
  • Why scale weight does not need to be perfectly stable


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