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You Need a Huge Excess
of Calories to Build Muscle
This is another old bodybuilding myth which refuses to die.
When you look at muscle growth on a cellular level from a
realistic viewpoint you will see that it takes place at a
painfully slow rate. This is frustrating and unfortunate but it’s
the sad truth.
Beyond your first two years of training gains will usually
come at a snails pace. A gain of one pound of real, solid
muscle tissue without any fat gain, per month, would be
outstanding progress for someone who has been training
properly for more than three years. I know that sounds very
miniscule but when you add it up and realize that two years
from now you could have an additional twenty four pounds
of muscle on your frame you’ll see that it’s pretty impressive.
For validation head over to your local butcher and check out
what twenty four pounds of lean steak looks like. Now
imagine that spread evenly across your shoulders, arms, chest,
back and legs. Not too shabby if you ask me.
And how many people have actually made that kind of
progress after their first few years of training? Probably very
few. They cycle back and forth between bulking and cutting
and usually end up nowhere.
For that simple reason alone you should see why you don’t
need to be 1000 calories per day over your maintenance
intake. If you were gaining muscle at a rate of one pound per
month that would come to a half an ounce per day. How
many extra calories do you think are required to build an
extra half an ounce of muscle per day? Not a lot, I’ll tell you
that. More than you burn, that much is for sure; but not
significantly more than that.
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