I visit my boxing gym every three days. I work there until I’m sweaty as heck. But I’m not gaining enough volume. I think my fat is inhibiting my muscle growth. But at least I’m improving my technique, and can notice performance increases.

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    3 days ago

    There can be multiple factors

    1. Consistent muscle stress, not enough to cause pain, but enough to encourage growth. Ensure your doing just enough exercise to get to technical failure then stop.

    2. Sleep

    3. Stress

    4. Adequate high quality protein, check the diaas score, but animal protein is best

    5. Too much sugar in the diet, which messes with insulin

    6. Mixing fat and carbohydrates, which causes inflammation

    Basically the body needs to be in balance to build muscles.

    Don’t worry about hypertrophy. Use something like grip strength to track your progress, not muscle bulges.