Gaining muscle - when?
Aust1967
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I've just started walking for exercise (I bought a FitBit) - before this I wasn't doing anything at all for exercise. I'm curious if anyone has any opinion (or facts, for that matter) as to how much exercise a person has to do to start gaining muscle - in short, when can I start blaming weight gain on "adding muscle" as opposed to "eating too much"? :bigsmile:
Thanks for your input!!
Thanks for your input!!
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I've just started walking for exercise (I bought a FitBit) - before this I wasn't doing anything at all for exercise. I'm curious if anyone has any opinion (or facts, for that matter) as to how much exercise a person has to do to start gaining muscle - in short, when can I start blaming weight gain on "adding muscle" as opposed to "eating too much"? :bigsmile:
Thanks for your input!!
There is a fair chance that you may never be able to blame weight gain on muscle mass. Gaining muscle is EXTREMELY hard....for a male. It's exponentially harder for females.....
Gaining muscle takes hours of progressive overload strength training, a diet that is on point (with a caloric surplus), and testosterone. Outliers can gain muscle on a deficit (extremely undertrained, morbidly obese, returning athlete), but those gains very rarely effect the scale.0 -
I've just started walking for exercise (I bought a FitBit) - before this I wasn't doing anything at all for exercise. I'm curious if anyone has any opinion (or facts, for that matter) as to how much exercise a person has to do to start gaining muscle - in short, when can I start blaming weight gain on "adding muscle" as opposed to "eating too much"? :bigsmile:
Thanks for your input!!
There is a fair chance that you may never be able to blame weight gain on muscle mass. Gaining muscle is EXTREMELY hard....for a male. It's exponentially harder for females.....
Gaining muscle takes hours of progressive overload strength training, a diet that is on point (with a caloric surplus), and testosterone. Outliers can gain muscle on a deficit (extremely undertrained, morbidly obese, returning athlete), but those gains very rarely effect the scale.0 -
Well, this isn't good news at all! :grumble:0
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Well, this isn't good news at all! :grumble:
There are other reasons why you can gain "temporary" weight. If you recently started an exercise program, you may gain some weight- your muscles retain water to repair themselves. This happened to me after i started T25- i gained about 4-5 lbs right away- then when your body adapts to the new workout your weight drops. Don't get easily discouraged
ETA: I'm not sure if you get water retention from walking though.0
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