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>On the other hand, over the long term, more muscle weight will passively consume more calories and thus can help maintain your (lean) weight, especially for pe
by occz 3y ago
>On the other hand, over the long term, more muscle weight will passively consume more calories and thus can help maintain your (lean) weight, especially for people who like eating a lot.
This is misleading - the amount of additional energy passively consumed by muscle mass is pretty insignificant - 10-15 kcal per kilo of muscle mass.^[1]
Resistance training is still good, but definitely not good for this particular purpose.
[1] https://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/metabolismcontroversy.html https://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/metabolismcon...
- votepaunchy 3y agoSo that lean muscle mass burns it’s weight in body fat about every 1.5 to 2 years.
- tsimionescu 3y agoI'm not sure what this article is, but BMR is most highly correlated to lean body mass, and it varies by a pretty large margin between individuals (e.g. Men are typically quoted as requiring ~2000Cal/day, vs women requiring ~1200, and much of the difference is actually attributable to lean body mass).