| The short answer is yes, but only in the sense that | | | | military precision. There is no second guess work here, |
| bigger muscles imply a higher rest metabolic rate, | | | | just following general healthy guidelines, however good, |
| hence more calorie burning. But in order to get there | | | | is not good enough. If you want to muscle up without |
| you have to gain muscle first, and here the topic | | | | getting a pot belly in the process you need to plan and |
| becomes more complex because to gain muscle you | | | | vary your meals as you progress. It sounds like a bit of |
| must always be in positive anabolic balance over the | | | | a pain and in a way it is, but the good news is that |
| calories expenditure. A minimum of 250 to 500 calories | | | | once you built up 20, 30, or even more pounds of lean |
| over your perfect metabolic balance is required in | | | | muscle, it will get easier and easier to keep your fat in |
| order to feed your muscles. Many variables come into | | | | check and have a ripped physique, because bigger |
| play when assessing your total calorie intake, such as | | | | muscles will skyrocket your basic metabolic rate even |
| your unique metabolic rate at rest, your unique daily | | | | at rest. |
| activity expenditure and your unique training session | | | | This is why people who simply want to diet without |
| output. In other words this means that if your job is | | | | exercising are prone to the yo-yo effect. Their |
| bricklaying, your daily activity calorie output will be | | | | metabolic rate is always the same, in fact it is even |
| higher to start with than if you were an office worker. | | | | slower when they do diet since the body natural |
| Once at rest your personal metabolic rate may also | | | | mechanism defense is to shut down and preserve as |
| differ from one another and your workout days will | | | | much as it can of its own calories. After an initial fat |
| demand a higher calorie requirement than rest days. | | | | loss, lean muscle depletion ensues in order to save |
| The picture is really more complicated to work out first | | | | precious energy reserves in the form of stored fats, |
| than the original question may suggest. Even as you | | | | leading in turn to a general weakening, sagging, slower |
| may have found the optimal calorie intake other | | | | metabolic rate due to lower muscle mass, hence |
| factors still come into play like what kind of calories | | | | making it even more difficult to lose any fat at all. Once |
| you should be eating and how frequently. Obviously | | | | the person eventually gets fed up, he/she starts eating |
| 3000 calories from fried potatoes or nachos or Doritos | | | | again adding more fat than before. And so on in |
| are not the same as a well balanced meal of | | | | eternal circles. |
| carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Furthermore there | | | | To gain muscle or exercising in general should always |
| are windows of opportunity during the day to | | | | go hand in hand with the idea of a trim body, they |
| maximize potential for muscle growth, like before and | | | | really are the two sides of the same coin. Diet itself is |
| after your workout. | | | | not enough, that is a lazy person approach. If you are |
| Generally speaking a calorie intake spread out along | | | | not lazy but just have difficulty on finding out exactly |
| the day every 2/3 hours allows for optimal absorption. | | | | how and when to eat as part of a lose fat gain |
| If you're serious about gaining muscle mass while | | | | muscle program in order to look strong and lean, help is |
| keeping a check on your fat tissue than you really | | | | at hand. |
| need to plan your meal meticulously, almost with | | | | |