When should the muscle building phase/weight gain end?
There are only 2 reasons for ending your muscle building phase/weight gain. The first is that you have built as much muscle as you wanted to build, are happy with your results and have no desire to go any further. The second (and most common for people looking to add more than 5-10lbs of muscle to their body) is when you reach the point where you don’t want to gain anymore excess fat. Remember that whole muscle to fat gain ratio/calorie partitioning stuff I just mentioned? You know, how SOME excess fat will be gained along with all the muscle? Well, most people end their muscle building phase when they have gained as much fat as they are willing to gain. This, of course, is perfectly fine. In fact, it’s the right idea. It turns out that the fatter you are, the worse your calorie partitioning becomes. This is a good reason why you never want to gain too much excess fat while building muscle, as you will eventually reach a point where your muscle to fat gain ratio starts to get worse and
