Thread: steroid fat loss equivalent

Okay, let's see what you're getting at here.

Steroids enhance partitioning. This means more of your calories go toward muscle gain through protein synthesis, than toward filling up fat stores.

In the absence of excess calories and hypertrophy stimulus (ie progressive overload, this thing called weightlifting that we do), their effect is minimal.

Fat loss happens when you a) burn more calories than you consume and b) do something to encourage most of the weight you lose to come from fat. Unless you are able to run a deficit, either through eating less or moving more, this will not happen.

There. Now that we've defined the parameters, care to restate your question?

Steroids promote the increase of lean muscle mass, which in turn promotes the more efficient burning of energy sources and not the production of fat.

Its sort of like - you have two things going on - of the stuff you eat, there's the part your body uses (i.e. used to build muscle and fuel metabolism) and the part you don't. The part you don't use is partially excreted and partially deposited as bodyfat.

Fat loss is more about efficiently fueling your body and minimizing the stuff left unused.