Arinn@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 months agoSo all this weight or bodyweight training with progressive overload is kind of just a way to communicate to our body and tell it to grow more muscles and strength?message-squaremessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up185arrow-down19
arrow-up176arrow-down1message-squareSo all this weight or bodyweight training with progressive overload is kind of just a way to communicate to our body and tell it to grow more muscles and strength?Arinn@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareGBU_28@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 months agoA pound of muscle requires many calories to maintain, more than anything else in your body, by weight.
minus-squarewoop_woop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoAside from fat. Or the brain. Or other organs
minus-squareGBU_28@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoNo, muscles require the most energy to maintain. Literally at rest, muscle is burning more than any other. That’s why the body sheds muscle readily if they aren’t used, and why building muscle is so effective for general weight loss.
minus-squarewoop_woop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-26 months agohttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2980962/ Heart & kidneys > brain > liver > skeletal muscle > adipose muscle Pound for pound. But they all are efficient, which still goes against the original thesis
A pound of muscle requires many calories to maintain, more than anything else in your body, by weight.
Aside from fat. Or the brain. Or other organs
No, muscles require the most energy to maintain. Literally at rest, muscle is burning more than any other.
That’s why the body sheds muscle readily if they aren’t used, and why building muscle is so effective for general weight loss.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2980962/
Heart & kidneys > brain > liver > skeletal muscle > adipose muscle
Pound for pound. But they all are efficient, which still goes against the original thesis