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That’s great and all, but you cannot build muscle unless you’re on a caloric surplus. Good bye resistance weight training with the goal of having more muscle.
by laichzeit0 9y ago
That’s great and all, but you cannot build muscle unless you’re on a caloric surplus. Good bye resistance weight training with the goal of having more muscle.
The irony is that having more muscle would also increase the amount of calories you need to maintain (not get bigger/fatter, not get smaller).
What I’m trying to say is that a “deficit” completely depends on what your current lean body mass is. If I want to go on a 15% calorie deficit, I have to eat 2200 calories a day. A much smaller person would probably GAIN weight at that caloric intake.
- drewblaisdell 9y agoIANA scientist, but the article claims new evidence that a reduced calorie diet can slow metabolism, which would impact the “surplus” side of that equation.
- romanovcode 9y agoBut if you don't fulfil the daily macro requirements then from what exactly does the muscle builds?
- vanderZwan 9y agoWe were talking about caloric surplus, not macro nutrients.
- drukenemo 9y agoThat's a good point. One of the dangerous of calorie restriction or any type of weight loss diet is, it seems, losing muscle mass instead of fat mass. A reasonably developed muscle mass has shown many health benefits in age related diseases, such as preventing osteoporosis, diabetes and high blood pressure. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041123162138.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041123162138.h... https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20110728/building-muscle-mass-may-lower-diabetes-risk#1 https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20110728/building-muscle... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4101790/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4101790/
- vanderZwan 9y agoCouldn't using intermittent fasting solve this problem? So having "caloric surplus days" for building muscle, basically.
- jugglebird 9y agoThat's what they suggest at the end of the article.