Increasing muscle mass is not just about ‘eating more’. Often, it involves losing weight before hypertrophy to ensure that the increase in muscle mass is ‘cleaner and healthier’ and adjusting the increase in calories to the volume of training performed.

The amount of muscle mass and strength that each of us can preserve and increase in adulthood is the best ‘health insurance’ we can have, as it is associated with a reduced risk of all the most prevalent diseases in our society.

The sooner we realise that increasing muscle mass is not just a matter of aesthetics, but also a matter of health, the better the long-term results will be, because here too there is a ‘biological clock’ and the capacity for hypertrophy decreases over the years.