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<br>How Many Calories Should You Eat to [Build Muscle](https://www.tumblr.com/search/Build%20Muscle)? To build muscle, you need extra calories. Those calories don’t always need to come from food. Many of us carry quite a lot of extra energy in our guts. If that’s you, you’ve got plenty. You can listen to your appetite, eat a comfortable amount of food, and stimulate muscle growth with your training. If you’re thinner or leaner, you’ll need to eat those extra calories. That means you’ll need to eat in a calorie surplus-you’ll need to bulk. The size of that surplus is up to you. If you eat 100 extra calories every day, you’ll build muscle slowly and leanly. If you eat 750 extra calories, you’ll build muscle faster, but you may also gain more fat. I’ll give you some options below. Now, here’s where it gets tricky. To eat in a calorie surplus, you need to build on what you’re already eating. One approach is to take your current diet and increase the serving sizes or add snacks.<br>
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<br>Another approach is to count calories. Here’s the calorie calculator. It isn’t better than other calorie calculators, but it is better for you because it’s specifically designed to tell you how many calories you need to eat to build muscle. The most common muscle-building calorie formulas factor in your age, gender, height, and weight. This can make them seem more precise, but it actually has the opposite effect (study). Your age doesn’t directly affect how many calories you burn (study). It’s just that older people tend to move less, [www.PrimeBoosts.com](http://bestpmk.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=free&wr_id=1101040) be less muscular, and be in worse shape overall. If that doesn’t describe you, it makes the calorie calculator less accurate. Your gender doesn’t directly affect how many calories you burn, either (study). At least not to a meaningful degree. It’s just that women tend to have less muscle mass and more fat. Your weight and height do directly impact how many calories you burn. If you’re trying to build muscle, these proxies for muscularity add a layer of confusion.<br>
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<br>Better to plug in your weight and body-fat percentage directly. That will give you a much more accurate idea of how many calories you burn. The next issue is your activity level. Most calorie calculators begin with your resting metabolic rate (RMR) and then multiply it based on how active you are. If you’re a novelist who goes on a walk every day, you might multiply your RMR by 1.3. If you’re a gravedigger, you might multiply your RMR by 1.9. That’s great. But if you’re trying to build muscle, you’ll be working out. We want to factor that in, too. We’re going to use the approach I learned from the research reviewer Greg Nuckols (reference). Your lifestyle can have a huge impact on how many calories you burn. From there, we can add in the calories we burn through deliberate exercise. If you like [This product](http://62.178.96.192:3000/hymanbaskin04) approach to tracking calories, Greg is full of great ideas.<br>
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<br>His MacroFactor App calorie-tracking app is fantastic. We’ve got around 100 members trying it, using it to track their calories while building muscle, and they’ve been loving it. If you want to try it, Prime Boosts Supplement you can get an extended free trial with the code "b2b". How Big Should Your Calorie Surplus Be? That brings us to the final and most controversial point. Now that you know how many calories you’re burning, how many extra calories should you eat? How quickly should you gain weight? I wrote an article on Bony to Beastly covering all the research. I’ll summarise it here. Overweight or Skinny-Fat: As I [mentioned](https://www.msnbc.com/search/?q=mentioned) above, if you’re already overweight, skinny-fat, or carrying living energy around your waist for any other reason, then you don’t need a calorie surplus at all. Eat according to your appetite and Prime Boosts Supplement try to get gradually stronger. It’s okay if you gain or lose a little bit of weight. The important thing is to focus on progressive overload.<br>
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