Sentences with phrase «additional lean body mass»

We know how the metabolic rate increases with additional lean body mass, and will decrease with a drop in lean body mass.

Not exact matches

Your body has genetic limits in place to prevent you from gaining too much additional lean mass, since muscle is metabolically «expensive» tissue that requires a lot of resources to build and maintain.

As the above equation is intended for bodybuilders in a steady, maintainable state, special adjustments should be made for «bulking» off - season bodybuilders who, due to heavy food and liquid intake, often carry additional pounds of «lean body mass» in the form of fluid retention, labile proteins and contents in the digestive tract.

Unfortunately, this additional «lean body mass» was actually a combination of food still in my intestines, fluid retention, glycogen storage and labile proteins - in a few days my lean body mass was back to «normal».

While there is no additional benefit as far as muscle retention to eating more than 1 gram of protein per pound of lean body mass, as soon as you begin to dip below that number, your muscle will begin to be stripped.

You'll get a much fuller body with additional muscle weight and high quality, lean mass.