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I agree. From what I understand, a pound of muscle burns 6 Cals/day (that’s kCals, but in the US we just use Cals capitalized). A pound of fats burns 2-3 Cals
by dhimes 6y ago
I agree.
From what I understand, a pound of muscle burns 6 Cals/day (that’s kCals, but in the US we just use Cals capitalized). A pound of fats burns 2-3 Cals/day. A 25 year old amateur non- drug- enhanced male can put on maybe 10 lbs of muscle in a year with a oot of hard work.
So the idea of putting on muscle to increase metabolism in order to get lean won’t pay off for most of us.
- qeternity 6y agoPrecisely. I'm a big lifter, who used to be pretty chunky. I did a full recomp years ago and it definitely wasn't the added muscle/increased BMR that let me cut. It was my diet. Muscle makes you look good with clothes on. Diet makes you look good with clothes off.
- airhead969 6y agoMaybe. That's not how muscle gains work. It's exponential decrease per year with steady training: 13-18 lbs the first year, 7-9 lbs the second, and so forth until about year 5.
- dhimes 6y agoI’d love to know your source on this because I have found only (1) people relating from “experience” and (2) some theoretical maximum (around 25 pounds in a year) based on the chemical processes involved. The decreasing ability makes sense as nobody seems to put on, say, 90 pounds of muscle. Above I was referring primarily to people just starting out trying to “get in shape.”
- qeternity 6y agoWith a sample size of n=1 (and lots of bro science online) my experience lines up with this, the so called “noob gainz”. When I first started lifting, strength, stamina and hypertrophy all surged for the first 6 months, and plateaued. Aside from caffeine and whey, I don’t supplement with anything else but I see plenty of people that either have great genetics, or more likely dabble with anabolics in order to get the lean mass that they have.