Eli5: How much can a person transform their body like some work out programs claim such as “6 week body transformation”?

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Is it even possible (excluding the fact if someone does nothing but work out or work out for hours every day)?

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Most of those claims involve either people who are deliberately taking bad, slouchy, bloated photos, or the more honest one where it’s an athletic person who had surgery and couldn’t exercise for two months.

 A realistic amount of muscle gain in six weeks for a new but engaged lifter without drugs is 1-2kg, 2-4lbs. But that’s not including fat loss, which essentially cannot be done simultaneously. And you can’t force weight training by doing more per day, that’s counterproductive. Crash dieting to lose 2lbs or more real weight per week is also counterproductive. 

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