| Subject: | Re: Exercise Not Very Useful
| | Date: | Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:29:07 GMT
| | From: | "Manco" <manco_dollars@net2blah.com>
| | Newsgroups: | misc.fitness.weights,rec.running,alt.support.diet,alt.support.fat-acceptance
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Bartleby wrote:
>>
>> Jack Wilmore, an exercise physiologist at Texas A & M University,
>> calculated that the average amount of muscle that men gained after a
>> serious 12-week weight-lifting program was 2 kilograms, or 4.4
>> pounds. That added muscle would increase the metabolic rate by only
>> 24 calories a day.
>
They must not have been lifting very hard. I've gained way more then 2kg in
12 weeks, and I'm small-framed.
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