Filed under: Health, Fitness, Fit Family Guy
I consider myself to be pretty from the neck down.
The genetic lottery didn’t give me anything close to one of those Brad Pitt type faces, so I work hard to try and look like I’ve got something of a Fight Club physique to help keep my wife happy.
There are many reasons why you should engage in weightlifting, and my next post is going to elaborate on that in detail, but for this one I wanted to address the issue of how building muscle affects metabolism.
Speaking of Brad, he was pretty ripped in Fight Club, and many believe that having extra muscle mass burns a lot of extra calories, getting you closer to that coveted six pack. The most commonly quoted numbers are that one pound of muscle burns 50 calories a day while at rest. Using that math, if you happen to build ten pounds of muscle through weight training then you would burn an extra 500 calories every single day just by having that muscle hanging around on your body.
I wish it was true, but it isn’t.
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