12/09/2025
"HOW CAN YOU EAT SO MUCH AND NOT BE FAT?"
"WHY DO YOU GET TO EAT THAT? IT'S NOT FAIR."
Just a couple of the things I often hear from family and friends. Here's the answer 👉👉 By adding just 3lbs of muscle to your body your metabolism increases 7%. I've added a total of 25lbs of muscle!
LET ME EXPLAIN FURTHER...
For a long time, fat loss was framed as a simple equation of eating less and moving more. But emerging research reveals a deeper truth, building muscle actually changes how your metabolism behaves at rest. Muscle tissue is metabolically active, meaning it burns energy even when you’re doing nothing at all. As muscle mass increases, your body begins operating in a higher-energy state around the clock, drawing more fuel from stored fat regardless of workouts or calorie intake. This is not a temporary effect; it’s a structural upgrade to how your system functions.
Muscle reprograms metabolism at the cellular level. It improves insulin sensitivity, allowing nutrients to be used for repair instead of fat storage. It increases mitochondrial density, meaning your cells become better at converting fuel into usable energy rather than storing it. Hormonal signals also shift—fat-burning pathways activate more easily, while stress-driven fat storage slows down. Over time, the body prefers burning fat simply because muscle demands more energy to exist.
This is why two people eating the same diet and doing the same activity can have completely different body compositions. The one with more muscle is running a faster metabolic engine all day, not just during workouts. Fat loss becomes more natural, more sustainable, and far less dependent on constant restriction or cardio.
Building muscle isn’t about aesthetics alone, it’s metabolic protection. It turns your body into a system that works for you, not against you. When muscle goes up, fat-burning follows naturally, quietly, and continuously.
WANT MORE MUSCLE??
1. Exercise LESS, but SMARTER! It's NOT how much time you spend in the gym, but how you spend your time.
2. Eat MORE, but BETTER! Increasing your intake of protein, especially leucine-rich quality protein, helps turn on your muscle-building machinery (even without exercise!).
As a trainer those are the two most common mistakes we see people make...1. Doing too much of the wrong kind of exercise, and 2. Not eating enough, especially protein.
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