The answer: Because muscle is the most metabolically active tissue in your body.
Adding just one point of muscle may enable you to burn an additional 18,250 calories in a year. A pound of fat consumes only 700 calories in a year. Hence the reason fat begets more fat and muscle shapes you smaller.
In this weeks’ SSM Podcast discover how you can burn the calories of running 3-4 miles a day, 7 days a week without running at all.
Listen for the Key Moment:
At rest, 1 lb of lean muscle tissue burns up to 25 times or more calories than a pound of fat.
Listen to this < 2 min. audio
Stay Strong,
Shawn
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