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<br>How Many Calories Should You Eat to Build Muscle? To build muscle, you need extra calories. Those calories don’t always need to come from food. Many of us carry quite a lot of extra energy in our guts. If that’s you, you’ve got plenty. You can listen to your appetite, eat a comfortable amount of food, and stimulate muscle growth with your training. If you’re thinner or leaner, you’ll need to eat those extra calories. That means you’ll need to eat in a calorie surplus-you’ll need to bulk. The size of that surplus is up to you. If you eat 100 extra calories every day, you’ll build muscle slowly and leanly. If you eat 750 extra calories, you’ll build muscle faster, but you may also gain more fat. I’ll give you some options below. Now, here’s where it gets tricky. To eat in a calorie surplus, you need to build on what you’re already eating. One approach is to take your current diet and increase the serving sizes or add snacks.<br> |
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<br>Another approach is to count calories. Here’s the calorie calculator. It isn’t better than other calorie calculators, but it is better for you because it’s specifically designed to tell you how many calories you need to eat to build muscle. The most common muscle-building calorie formulas factor in your age, gender, height, and weight. This can make them seem more precise, but it actually has the opposite effect (study). Your age doesn’t directly affect how many calories you burn (study). It’s just that older people tend to move less, be less muscular, and be in worse shape overall. If that doesn’t describe you, it makes the calorie calculator less accurate. Your gender doesn’t directly affect how many calories you burn, either (study). At least not to a meaningful degree. It’s just that women tend to have less muscle mass and more fat. Your weight and height do directly impact how many calories you burn. If you’re trying to build muscle, these proxies for muscularity add a layer of confusion.<br> |
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<br>Better to plug in your weight and body-fat percentage directly. That will give you a much [Read more](http://www.xn--stefan-rhlmann-nsb.de/Mein-blog/index.php/ |
