• A man in his 30s said eating too much protein stalled his fitness gains. • By eating more carbs and switching to full-body workouts, he cut his body fat in half in 10 months. • His trainer said techniques like supersets help to boost gains in less time.

Londoner Jared Wakeford was stuck in what fitness fanatics call a "perma-bulk."

It's a dreaded, seemingly endless phase of loading up on protein to build muscle, but gaining fat instead.

The 31-year-old software developer was shoveling down heaps of bland chicken breast, about 250 grams of protein a day, to no avail.

"For a really long time, I wasn't in the best shape, and I didn't know how to do anything about that," he told Business Insider. "I thought I was far too skinny and needed to put on weight, so I would just eat and eat

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