Losing Body Fat or Gaining Muscle Mass

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Mark Rippetoe

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🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Mark Rippetoe reads his article "Losing Body Fat or Gaining Muscle Mass: Which is more important?" about the importance of gaining muscle mass, especially in older populations. --------------------------- Watch Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4DK2Yclq0Hg WEBSITE: https://startingstrength.com FORUM: https://startingstrength.com/resources/forum/ STORE: https://aasgaardco.com Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AasgaardCo Watch us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startingstrength/ Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SS_strength Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Starting-Strength-The-Aasgaard-Company/142424022490628 -----------------------------

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0:00.0	Losing body fat or gaining muscle mass, which is more important?
0:06.1	Muscle mass comprises between 30 and 50 percent of your body's total weight.
0:11.5	The more, the better.
0:13.3	Composed of more than 650 muscles, it is the primary user of calories in the active human body. It's the storage facility for most of the
0:24.2	body's protein. Muscles are the motors which move the skeleton, the system of levers we use
0:31.4	to interact with our environment, and are therefore responsible for our physical relationship with our surroundings.
0:39.9	Fat, on the other hand, is where calories are stored, not used.
0:44.5	Mostly, fat just lays there, using very few calories itself,
0:49.7	but hoping you'll use the calories that stores this fuel for muscle contraction.
0:55.9	In great quantities,
1:04.2	the hormones produced in adipose tissue, yes, that actually happens, may become metabolically significant. And in great quantities, adipose tissue can become the site of significant amounts of inflammation.
1:13.6	But body fat itself is not usually the problem.
1:18.6	The processes that allow for the accumulation of body fat are the problem.
1:24.6	Accumulating body fat means that there is an imbalance which must be addressed
1:30.3	usually by correcting the quality and quantity of both the diet and the physical activity schedule.
1:38.3	On very rare occasions there is a profound hormonal imbalance too. However, morbidly obese people
1:47.3	will almost always show you how they got that way if you go with them to the grocery store.
1:54.9	No matter what they tell you, these people eat lots and lots of very shitty food.
2:01.6	Lots of fat, sugar, and cheap alcohol.
2:05.6	They are a separate situation and not the topic of this discussion.
2:09.6	We're talking about you.
2:11.6	Either your slightly overweight, normal, or underweight self and your muscles.
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