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Why do you need to gain mass at all? That makes no sense at all. Why would you voluntarily make yourself heavier? You are taxing your organs and your whole body
by rofo1 8y ago
Why do you need to gain mass at all? That makes no sense at all. Why would you voluntarily make yourself heavier?
You are taxing your organs and your whole body.
Stay lean, stay fit and stay strong, you do not need mass for anything else other than perhaps vanity.
I exercise daily for years, and that's my take on the situation.
There's not a single "test" that says that you are healthier that is based on the amount of "mass" that you have. It's such a bad metric, it's completely useless.
Your first priority should be health. I am really not convinced that there are no side-effects of taking concentrated protein (that needs to be processed by your body). People selling/using concentrated protein will claim so, but we weren't designed for that. Our organs weren't designed to be used like that.
- omeid2 8y agoI understand that at some point gaining weight becomes a vanity thing, but there is good reasons for gaining muscles, they're rather good energy source to sustain you if you're planning to do long distance hiking or sailing for example.
- rofo1 8y agoThat's widely inaccurate, as far as I know. After you spend your glycogen reserves and then fat, then and only then the muscle tissue is broken and eventually used as energy. That happens if you have no other source of energy (starvation? or something), so this is definitely not normal behavior.
- omeid2 8y agoActually not at all, you don't need to have burnt through all your fat for your body to enter Catabolism, if that was the case you would never lose muscles without starvation which is of course not the case. I think everyone who wants to comment on the issue of weight and diet should understand the basics of Metabolism, it is not that complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolism