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Tbh muscle-y dudes have never really done it for me
This might be my favorite comment on lemmy
Thank goodness on behalf of dudes like me.
It depends. Muscle underneath a small layer of fat is amazing.
Makes sense. You need fat (energy) to build and maintain the muscles. Muscles get used as energy source first, fat second, because fat is for emergencies.* Which is why muscly without fat looks so fake (and ugly imo).
* At least that's what i was educated for cows as a farmer, no clue what the fitness guys learn nowadays.
No, your body prefers fat as an energy source. Turning muscles into energy is a lot of effort for your metabolism, and building new muscles when you refeed also.
Uhm, no, it builds first fat, needs fat as an "ingredient" to build muscles (makes no sense to build all that muscle if you barely have enough energy to survive). Then burns preferably muscles. Fat is hard to convert, protein (muscle) is easily accessible (bodybuilders take protein as supplement). You need excercise and not just starving to lose weight, no?
And btw, even just keeping muscles needs more energy. Fat not.
No, muscle protein synthesis needs amino-acids. Fat is not used to build muscle
No
Not nearly as hard as it is for the body to atrophy muscle mass, turn the proteins into amino-acids, and turn those amino-acids into glucose and then ATP
It isn't, and the digestion of whey protein supplements can not be compared to muscle atrophy
At this point I'm sure you're just trolling, because that couldn't be further from the truth
True
Keeping fat cells also uses energy, just not nearly as much as muscle mass
If you wanna know my credibility on this topic I would suggest a look at my profile picture
Lmfao Yes.
Visually nothing; but being embraced by them is a whole 'nother story. I can practically feel my spine realigning just thinking about it.
being bisexual is being attracted to two very specific types of men, and all women- those being femboys and "i know it when i see it but it's certainly not muscle dudes"