Paul Saladino· MD
all that muscle burns a tremendous amount of calories and resistance training tells the body it doesn't need to be so efficient with calories
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all that muscle burns a tremendous amount of calories and resistance training tells the body it doesn't need to be so efficient with calories
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all that muscle burns a tremendous amount of calories and resistance training tells the body it doesn't need to be so efficient with calories and this is an important thing to talk about because sometimes i'll get people who will say oh you know what the study showed that a pound of muscle only burns an extra 10 calories or something like that so it's not that big of a deal which even if it were that that's still a big deal you you add 5 pounds of muscle even if it were just 50 calories a day you do the math that's you know 10 15 pounds of body fat a year
and so that's why we tell people if you want to be able to eat more calories hey build some more muscle because to maintain that takes more