Don’t get me wrong, I understand they’re athletes and work tremendously hard, but they all have their bellies hanging over their belts. Wouldn’t be less fat make it easier to lift a weight since you’re also not lifting your own fat?
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Sure, and if they didn’t have all that muscle they’d have even less body weight to lift. And yet, they go to quite a lot of effort to build muscle.
It’s just that the human body really wants to stay alive. If you starve it, it’s not going to waste precious energy building muscle that may or may not be needed.
So if you want to build a lot of muscle, you need to eat food. And when you do that, the body, again wanting to stay alive, goes “actually, there’s enough here that we can save some of it for a rainy day”, and so it is converted to fat.
The human body is not a machine. It can’t be programmed or ordered around, and fat isn’t such a bad thing.
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