muscle retention / bodybuilding

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You mention eating 2000 calories during your lifting days as

being not quite CRON-ish, as though it were a lot. Depending

on your height, I would say this *is* CR. I am 5'10.5 " and

eat about 2200 calories now with moderate exercise (30 minute

walk every day and 3x week on the Bowflex). According to the

CR % calculator at

http://www.scientificpsychic.com/health/cron1.html

even my higher consumption is still 15% calorie restriction.

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>

> I think bodybuilders have different interests than other

> people. If you want to weigh 300 pounds, mostly muscle, you've

got

> different interests than other people. My guess is that it's not

much

> healthier to have 100 pounds of excess muscle than it is to have

100 pounds

> of fat. 10 pounds of muscle, I dunno. The fashion in pro

bodybuilding

> diets these days is alternating 10,000 calories per day on " on "

cycles vs.

> 1,200 or so " cutting up " for competition

>

> My experience with lifting is that I got OK results,

definite

> change in body composition when I was working out regularly and

eating a

> Zone diet w/ about 18 blocks a day + an extra rice cake or two

after

> workouts. At maybe 2000 calories a day, this wasn't the most CRON-

ish but

> I was doing a lot of cardio and a lot of weights, so I lost a lot

of

> weight. I certainly put some muscle on my chest and arms at this

rate.

>

> After a while I got sloppier in some ways, certainly ate

less

> protein, probably ate a little more total, went to lifting two

times a

> week instead of three, and found my strength shot up rapidly. I

had to

> slow down because my tendons weren't keeping up with my muscles...

>