You can still put on muscle, in particular the first year of training hard. Or so I’ve heard repeatedly, but from the way my summer until now have gone, it seems to be true. I seem to lose fat and gain muscle around the same rate nowadays, but I’ve decided to get back to the cardio to restart the actual weight loss to go with all of this. In general though, I’m pretty happy so I’m patient about it all. Eased up over Dec some to let some pain spots heal up, but hitting it hard again 4-5 days a week. The January gym noobs will be dropping out soon as they let the resolutions go. LOL