• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    Makes sense. You need fat (energy) to build and maintain the muscles. Muscles get used as energy source first, fat second, because fat is for emergencies.* Which is why muscly without fat looks so fake (and ugly imo).

    * At least that’s what i was educated for cows as a farmer, no clue what the fitness guys learn nowadays.

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      3 days ago

      No, your body prefers fat as an energy source. Turning muscles into energy is a lot of effort for your metabolism, and building new muscles when you refeed also.

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        Uhm, no, it builds first fat, needs fat as an “ingredient” to build muscles (makes no sense to build all that muscle if you barely have enough energy to survive). Then burns preferably muscles. Fat is hard to convert, protein (muscle) is easily accessible (bodybuilders take protein as supplement). You need excercise and not just starving to lose weight, no?

        And btw, even just keeping muscles needs more energy. Fat not.

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          needs fat as an “ingredient” to build muscles

          No, muscle protein synthesis needs amino-acids. Fat is not used to build muscle

          Then burns preferably muscles

          No

          Fat is hard to convert

          Not nearly as hard as it is for the body to atrophy muscle mass, turn the proteins into amino-acids, and turn those amino-acids into glucose and then ATP

          protein (muscle) is easily accessible (bodybuilders take protein as supplement)

          It isn’t, and the digestion of whey protein supplements can not be compared to muscle atrophy

          You need excercise and not just starving to lose weight, no?

          At this point I’m sure you’re just trolling, because that couldn’t be further from the truth

          And btw, even just keeping muscles needs more energy

          True

          Fat not

          Keeping fat cells also uses energy, just not nearly as much as muscle mass

          If you wanna know my credibility on this topic I would suggest a look at my profile picture