Why Your “P-Ratio” Is Critical To Get Six Pack Lean
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If you go around into any commercial gym, you typically see men in a lot of different conditions.
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There are typically some big but fat guys.
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Some small but lean guys.
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Some small and fat guys.
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And a few big and lean guys.
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But, unless you belong to a gym with a large bodybuilder contingent, the last group tend to be few and far between.
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The question is why?
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Why is it so difficult to get both big and lean at the same time?
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It’s almost as if the body can do one or the other well, but not both, which really isn’t far from the truth.
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Related to that, why is it so difficult to lose fat and gain muscle at the same time?
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Or to gain muscle without gaining fat at the same time?
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Even losing fat without losing muscle is difficult enough.
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A big reason for that is your P-Ratio, also called nutrition partitioning.
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P-Ratio represents the amount of protein that is either gained or lost during over or under feeding.
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So a low P-ratio when dieting would mean you used very little protein and a lot of fat.
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A high P-ratio would mean that you used a lot of protein and very little fat.
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This means when losing weight, you lose a lot of bodyfat and very little muscle mass.
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And when putting on weight, you gain a lot of lean muscle mass while gaining little bodyfat.
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Which is the dream of every man who’s working on getting in elite shape.
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Your P-ratio essentially controls how much of your nutrition will be used to build muscle and how much to lose bodyfat.
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This is why you see guys get very lean, but then when they bulk up, they get big and soft instead of staying lean and getting stronger.
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The goal is to gain as much muscle mass as possible, with as little fat as possible.
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This gives you a very impressive physique when you’re naked and puts you into the top 1% of men alive.
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And your P-Ratio is the factor that controls that.
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Given that context, the real question becomes what controls your P-ratio? How can you optimize it?
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As depressing as this is, the majority of the P-ratio is out of our control.
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It’s mostly genetic.
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Nutrition expert Lyle McDonald says we can control about 15-20% of your P-Ratio.
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Most people would write this off and ignore the relatively small percentage.
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Yet when I designed the Kinetic Method I took into aspect every controllable variable to optimize results for myself and my clients.
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I’m a big believer on focusing on what we can control over what we can’t control.
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Instead of making excuses why another guy may have better genetics than I have, I’ll do whatever it takes to optimized those 15-20% to gain an edge for myself and my clients.
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The biggest influence on your P-ratio are your hormones.
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1. High testosterone levels tend to have positive P-Ratio effects (more muscle, less fat)
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2. High levels of cortisol have the opposite effect (less muscle, more fat).
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3. Thyroid and nervous system activity affect not only metabolic rate but also fat burning.
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4. Thyroid also affects protein synthesis so you can grow more muscle mass
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Optimal levels of these hormones not only mean better fat loss and less muscle loss when you diet, but better muscular gains and less fat gain when you gain weight.
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Your focus should become on optimizing your testosterone levels, lowering your cortisol levels and improving thyroid health.
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Cortisol is the easiest one and the lowest hanging fruit for most businessmen.
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Testosterone and thyroid are a lot more complex and take microdetails to get it right.
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You get all 3 right now you stacked the odds in your favour to weaponize your body.
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I’ll end this post with a quote from Warren Buffet:
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“Its not as important how hard you row but what boat you are in”.
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I admire and respect hard workers, but if you work hard on the wrong things you will never get the results you want.
Why Your “P-Ratio” Is Critical To Get Six Pack Lean
