Biggest Muscle Building Myths
6 Muscle-Building Myths..Stop Believing These guys 1 – Every pound of muscle you add burns 50 extra calories a day. Many of us used to believe this, but science tells us something different now. It's certainly true that muscle is metabolically active tissue. When you build it, the amount of calories you burn at rest does go up. But the research shows you'll burn more like 6-10 extra calories per day for each pound of muscle you gain – significantly less than 50. 2 – You can't lose fat and build muscle at the same time. From a nutritional perspective, although a caloric deficit is needed to lose fat, a caloric surplus isn't necessarily needed to build muscle. This is because stored fat is stored energy. So, those stored fat calories are available for the body to use as fuel for the muscle-building process. But hold on, get this part straight: Your body can't turn fat into muscle or vice versa. Fat is fat and muscle is muscle. But, if you're ...
