I moderate two private fitness forums: “Fat Loss Revealed” and “Bodybuilding Revealed.”\u00a0 These names are pretty self-explanatory…the first forum is dedicated to fat loss, while the second is concerned with building muscle.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Not surprisingly, the majority of the members on the “Bodybuilding Revealed” forum are male.\u00a0 Nonetheless, we have female members too – which is a great thing, in my view…I wish there were more.\u00a0 However, one thing that I find odd – and\u00a0kinda scary, to be honest – is the number of\u00a0female\u00a0members who\u00a0are\u00a0shocked when they learn\u00a0they need to eat more than 1500 – 1600 calories\/day to add muscle.\u00a0 I’ve fielded\u00a0queries from women who’ve used the “Calorie Planner” on the site,\u00a0who are dumbfounded\u00a0by numbers\u00a0as low as\u00a01900 – 2000 calories.\u00a0 They’re afraid they’re going to get fat on that – I kid you not.<\/p>\n
These posts make me wanna bang my head on my keyboard.\u00a0 From my perspective, those numbers are barely\u00a0enough to maintain my lean weight, let alone add to\u00a0it.\u00a0 To add mass, I’ve gone on gaining cycles where I had to eat up to 3000 calories\/day!!!\u00a0 And I’m not particularly young, large, or active outside of my workouts, either.\u00a0 But that was what I needed to eat, in order to a) fuel my workouts; b) facilitate my in-between workout recovery; and c) have enough left over for the creation of new muscle tissue.<\/p>\n
Now the actual number of calories it takes to gain muscle will naturally\u00a0vary between individuals, but my experience highlights a crucial fact: you can’t make something out of nothing.\u00a0 It takes more than just moving weights around to build muscle.\u00a0 Weight lifting provides the stimulus for muscle growth: but it’s your food intake that\u00a0will determine how well your body responds.\u00a0 All the “building materials” – including sufficient energy (i.e., calories) have to be there, or it’s a no-go.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fat loss is a critical part of any program designed to get you “lean and mean” – but you can’t live in perpetual fat loss mode, and expect to\u00a0develop a hard body.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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