I mentioned in the blog the other week about how “building muscle in order to turn you into a fat burning machine is a really inefficient way to do it”.

The increased daily calorie usage from a few more pounds of muscle is a few dozen calories at most.

And the effort that goes into doing that is substantial.

I thought of was a good analogy for this just now.

Imagine your house was too hot.

So you built an extension in order to increase the total volume of the house and therefore decrease the average temperature for the same amount of energy going in.

“Why don’t you just turn the heating down?” I’m sure your friends and family would tell you.

“If you want to build an extension for other reasons then that’s awesome, but this is a pretty rubbish reason to build one.”

And it’s the same with putting muscle on to burn body fat.

You can increase lean mass for a myriad of great reasons.

Improving your body’s strength and endurance, changing the way it looks and feels and so on.

But it’s infinitely easier to just do the equivalent of turning the heating down (eating a fraction less) if it’s the energy usage that’s important to us.

Much love,

Jon ‘single-storey rear’ Hall

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