What is the relationship between male fitness and muscle gain?

The core triggering path for men to gain muscle is scientific resistance fitness. The two are strongly correlated with each other, but they are by no means an equal and inevitable relationship. Fitness is only one of the necessary prerequisites for muscle gain, not all. When the post-00s intern I took care of a while ago just applied for a card, all he could think about was training for a month to develop abdominal muscles. He spent two hours in the gym every day after get off work, benched and deadlifted until exhaustion, then went to eat late-night hot pot, and drank cold beer for three weeks in a row. When he put on the physical tester, he saw that his muscle mass had increased by 0.1 kilograms, and his body fat had increased by 3 kilograms. He asked me with a sad face if I had practiced wrongly. In fact, he did not understand the underlying logic of the two.

There are actually differences in the understanding of this relationship in the fitness circle. A group of natural fitness veterans who have been practicing for five or six years always talk about "30% training and 70% eating". They feel that fitness is just a signal to the muscles to grow. If the follow-up supplies cannot keep up and the rest is not enough, the signal is useless.； Some bloggers who focus on efficient training believe that as long as the training intensity is sufficient and the movement trajectory is accurate, even if you occasionally stay up late and eat some junk food, you will gain muscle faster than someone who eats enough protein every day but only dares to gesture with an empty bar. There are many real cases to support both opinions. In fact, they are not contradictory. It is just that the logic of adaptation is different for people at different stages.

If we really want to make an analogy, the relationship between the two is very much like growing crops. Fitness means that you plow the ground to sow seeds. If you just sow the seeds without plowing the ground, you will definitely not be able to grow good crops. But if you plow the ground without fertilizing or watering it, and even on cloudy days with no sunlight, you will still not be able to harvest food. During the novice welfare period, the body's own hormone levels and muscle sensitivity are high, which is equivalent to the land itself being fertile enough. You can just turn over and scatter some seeds and things will grow. That's why some people think that "it will grow as long as you practice."

I have seen many natural fitness enthusiasts who have been practicing for five or six years. The latitude is stuck in one position and cannot be improved. It is not that the training is not hard enough, but that there is a ceiling for male muscle growth in the natural state. No matter how much you train, you can't break through the limitations of your own testosterone secretion. At this time, the correlation between fitness and muscle gain will become very low. Instead, you need to adjust the training rhythm to avoid overtraining and loss of muscle. If you go to the gym and only do aerobics, touch dumbbells for ten minutes and then rush to take pictures, then this kind of fitness has nothing to do with building muscle. At most, it is just about moving your muscles and bones.