If you work out, by eating more calories do you gain more muscle or just fat?

Question

3500 Calories = 1 Pound (of fat?)
I am assuming that the formula means 1 pound of fat and not muscle. Do the amount of Calories you eat have anything to do with how much muscle mass you will gain? Will you gain more muscle by eating more calories? How many extra calories do you need for your body to build muscle and recover?

To clarify, please comment on the below example.

Your BMR is 1800 Cal
Activity burns 100 Cal
The TEF is 200 Cal
For a total of 2100 Cal needed a day

The activity only burns 100 Cal, but wouldn't your body need additional Calories for recovering and building muscle (if so, how many)? Secondly, would you gain just as much muscle by eating 2100 Cal as eating 2400 Cal (not fat or weight but muscle mass). What about if you eat 1900 Cal a day, it will call on your fat supply but will it detract from how much muscle you gain by not giving you the full benefit of the food you are eating?

Answer 1

The formula is reall simple.
You will gain weight if you eat more calories than your body expends.
So you said your Basal metabolic rate is 1800, you burn 100 in activity and TEF is 200 your body needs 2100 calories a day.
If you eat over 2100 calories, then the amount of calories you eat over that will be stored in your body as fat.
For recovering muscle you'd need to do a lot of muscle buidling excersize and eat a lot of protein.
I'd recommend chlorella. A dose containing 4 times the amount of protein in beef is under 40 calories.
As far as aiding your body in muscle repair, make sure to drink 8 glasses of water a day and not to strain yourself too much.
Good luck.

Answer 2

Bodybuilder should not count calories. You need enough calories for life and rebuilding. Any above that does nothing for you. Eat good carbs to build muscle and bad ones build fat.

Good carbs like celery and carrots will never make you fat. Bad carbs like cake will, but you don't need to know the whole science of glycemic index and load. It is mostly NOT your fault, if you need to lose weight. The way we have been taught to eat is responsible for making obesity the number one health problem in the world (according to Atlantic Monthly magazine) replacing hunger and infectious disease. You need to re-learn how to eat so you can become thin. Not a diet, but diet lifestyle.

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Answer 3

You must burn 3500 calories to lose one pound. Your body can't burn more than two pounds of fat per week, that is 7000 calories. In order to do this, 7000 calories, you would have to work out 90-120 minutes per day. These workouts would be with your heart at 70%-80% of your maximum. Your maximum is 220 minus your age. To build muscle you must work those musles with resistance. This is anaroebic, you won't burn as many calories.

Answer 4

Wow--you're really thinking about this...food doesn't automatically turn into anything. If you eat more calories than you are burning, you will gain weight-end of story. You must perform weight bearing exercises to gain muscle. Ever seen a thin, but flabby person? That is because although they aren't eating tons of calories, they also aren't doing anything to turn their muscles into taught muscles.

Answer 5

You are way ahead of me in the technical aspects of this but I do know one thing - muscle is built using protien, not carbs. So any carbs that you eat and do not burn or pass through will end up as fat.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Not really