FAQ

It’s unlikely, unless again, you’re in the initial stages of your training career.

Those who’ve taken some time out, or are coming back from an injury may do, but on the whole, it’s best to shoot for losing fat or building muscle, rather than doing both simultaneously.

MyPhysique does not currently offer a ketogenic option. Put simply, we don't believe you'll be able to follow a diet that virtually eliminates an entire macronutrient from your life, so we don't offer it as an option. We'd rather you ate carbs - they're delicious and will probably make you train better & enjoy life a hell of a lot more.

It's highly unlikely that you'll be able to follow a meal plan for the rest of your life and for that reason we don't write them for you. The main benefit of flexible dieting is that you’ll have the opportunity to eat foods you love in moderation whilst moving closer to your goals without ever having to rely on the rigidity of a set menu.

Life happens, and being chained to a set of meals every day and eating the same foods all the time will only work for so long before driving you to eat all of the foods you've been craving and making sticking to your diet all that more challenging. For this reason, MyPhysique does not offer meal plans.

If you're looking to make your life easier for short periods of time or cut down on time spent tracking your food, there's nothing stopping you from creating a meal plan of your own using the macro targets that MyPhysique calculates for you - that way you'll be in full control of the foods you eat at all times.

As many as you like, whilst still hitting your daily calorie & macronutrient requirements.

Manipulating your body composition is all about calories and macros, not when you eat. When you eat your meals might influence your mood, energy levels, training intensity and performance, but in the grand scheme of things, hitting your macros and calories is the most important thing you can do as far as improving your body composition is concerned, so eat as many meals as you find convenient in hitting your daily macros & calories.

Absolutely. There's no difference between losing a little weight or a lot - simply the amount of time involved in an active fat loss phase. You'll be able to remain in an active fat loss phase using the MyPhysique system for as long as you want, so if getting on stage is your aim you'll be able to achieve that.

Your macronutrient targets are calculated after first determining your calorie requirements, which means if you hit your macros you’ll automatically hit your calories.

The reverse however, isn't always true. If you're looking to take close control over your body composition, then you'll do far better by tracking your macros, so that you can be sure you're getting enough of each specific macronutrient. If your body composition isn't overly important or you don't have the time or energy to track your macros, tracking your calories will give you the best opportunity to ensure you're eating enough to manipulate your body weight in line with your goals, without necessarily giving you the opportunity to build muscle or lose fat as effectively as possible.

Something to keep in mind...

Due to rounding on food labels, the macros and calories when tracking food on your app may not always line up. To eliminate confusion, if you're interested in manipulating your body composition (building muscle and losing fat etc) focus solely on your macros and hitting your calories will take care of itself.

One final thing to note, is that there are lots of user-generated entires in food-tracking applications like MyFitnessPal, which means some of them might be incorrect, or have macronutrient information that doesn't correspond with the calorie count.

Reverse dieting is the process of removing you from a calorie deficit after you finish a period of deficit dieting.

While most people finish their diet and binge, or go straight into ‘bulking,’ reverse dieting encourages a slower, steadier transition where you raise calories gradually.

This prevents overloading your body with calories and gaining too much fat in a quick fashion. Where your metabolism drops when you diet, going straight back to a theoretical maintenance level can result in excess fat gain. Reverse dieting prevents this, as it will allow you to more gradually enter a surplus and control the rate at which you do so, rather than diving head first into eating at a surplus.

If you've finished a period of dieting & are happy with your body composition but no longer wish to continue dieting, simply change your goal inside the Dashboard & we'll look to increase your intake at the desired rate (based on the specific rate you choose to reverse diet).

To aid with energy and performance. Being in a calorie deficit can be draining, and if carbs/ calories are too low, you’ll find you lack energy and enthusiasm for sessions, which can result in slower fat loss and greater losses in strength. Plus, in order to fit those higher calorie days into your plan, you'll find your lower calorie days are a little lower than they would otherwise be, so your weekly calories end up being the same.