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Getting really lean is a common goal, which a fair number of people regularly achieve, and it’s easy to find trainers and books to help you do so. However, getting lean and staying lean is often viewed as a holy grail, at least in bodybuilding-centric circles. People pursue this goal for many...

Old-school gym lore suggested that each pound of muscle burned 50 calories per day. The more common figure you’ll hear from sciency folks is 6 calories. The truth is somewhere in the middle. Arecent discussion with Shane Duquette in the MASS Facebook group 1 prompted me to consider something I...

Most people tend to view exercise through the lens of the ‘additive’ energy model: More exercise = more calories burned. But back in 2016, Herman Pontzer and colleagues published a study that put forth the ‘constrained’ energy model: Energy expenditure does increase with added activity, but...

By Adam Bisek Many people set out on their own dietary excursion with the best of intentions to build muscle or shed body fat. However, even the best of intentions can be haphazard. Unless you’re initially calculating your estimated metabolism (caloric expenditure), tracking your diet closely...

Pavel Ythjall Previously, I gave you the first installment of my fat-loss superfeature. Nutrition plays an absolutely pivotal role in maximizing changes in body composition; however, so does training. In this second part, I’m going to show you how to maximize fat loss through training in the...