Looks like I'm getting teamed up on. Muscle does burn more
calories than
fat obviously but it is not as much as most people will claim. When I am talking about raising metabolism I am refering mostly to EPOC after the workout where a persons metabolism will be raised for hours afterwords to repair damaged muscle fibers, replaced used up muscle glycogen....
Can you seriously say that eating one to two meals a day at 800
calories is the same as eating 4 meals a day at 400
calories? They both will equal 1600
calories so they are the same. This is clearly not the case and I hope you don't disagree with that.
An another note I rereead that post and I still do not agree that you burn the same amount of
calories if you have been doing the same thing in your workout routine. That is personal training 101 and it is why plateaus are usually hit. The study they used in that posting first had to do with Lance Armstrong. I don't think you can compare a study with Lance Armstrong to the general population. It is obvious that it will be hard for him to improve
energy efficiency with the amount he has trained. If you take a normal person trying to lose weight they probably haven't done anything before and they will see dramatic effeciency improvements in the beginning of their workout. The human
body is an amazing thing and also very lazy. It will find a way to get better at doing the same work and use less
energy. This doesn't mean you have run harder or lift more weight, it just means you have to do something different.
I'm not trying to start any fights here I just want to make sure everything I am saying makes sense and that I just disagree with what was stated from others. There is no one right way to train I just have preferences to certain training techniques that have worked for my clients.
