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When you are sore does your body burn more calories?
« on: December 27, 2010, 09:25:04 AM »
Does your metabolism increase?

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Re: When you are sore does your body burn more calories?
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2010, 09:41:20 AM »
i always think it does yes, when im sore im much more hungry, also the soreness of leg training makes me so fucking tired that it must burn extra calories!

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Re: When you are sore does your body burn more calories?
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2010, 11:21:58 AM »
My guess is yes. When the body is repairing itself, id imagine it working harder than usual

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Re: When you are sore does your body burn more calories?
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2010, 11:27:01 AM »
I read somewhere that the process of muscle repair and growth is metabolically expensive, it takes calories to do so. So my guess is yes.

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Re: When you are sore does your body burn more calories?
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2010, 06:15:26 PM »
No

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Re: When you are sore does your body burn more calories?
« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2010, 06:17:40 PM »
Yes

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Re: When you are sore does your body burn more calories?
« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2010, 08:21:23 PM »
When your body is sore like that it heats up, right?


Well...



A "calorie" is a measure of heat, if you get my drift.

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Re: When you are sore does your body burn more calories?
« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2010, 08:23:17 PM »
When your body is sore like that it heats up, right?


Well...



A "calorie" is a measure of heat, if you get my drift.
no a calorie is just a calorie

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Re: When you are sore does your body burn more calories?
« Reply #8 on: December 27, 2010, 08:54:52 PM »
i always think it does yes, when im sore im much more hungry, also the soreness of leg training makes me so fucking tired that it must burn extra calories!

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Re: When you are sore does your body burn more calories?
« Reply #9 on: December 27, 2010, 10:36:30 PM »
i always think it does yes, when im sore im much more hungry, also the soreness of leg training makes me so fucking tired that it must burn extra calories!

I hate yawning for 2 days after training legs. Why's that?  >:(

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Re: When you are sore does your body burn more calories?
« Reply #10 on: December 27, 2010, 10:41:50 PM »
no a calorie is just a calorie

LOL....

Adonis called and said he wants his cakes, In & Out, hot dogs and pillsbury back when leg day is over.


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Re: When you are sore does your body burn more calories?
« Reply #12 on: December 28, 2010, 02:47:39 AM »
When the body is sore, it needs protein to recover, so taking extra protein would maybe be beneficial up to a point, but I wouldn't say that the body would necessarily want to burn more calories, especailly if you're sitting on your butt doing nothing but trying to recover. Calories from any other source (carbs, fat) would just be stored by the body as fat if they're not needed - why would the body want to take in calories from all macronutrient sources just because it's sore?

So my answer would be, take in extra protein to help you recover, but keep the carbs and fats the same.

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Re: When you are sore does your body burn more calories?
« Reply #13 on: December 28, 2010, 05:37:24 AM »
i always think it does yes, when im sore im much more hungry, also the soreness of leg training makes me so fucking tired that it must burn extra calories!
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Re: When you are sore does your body burn more calories?
« Reply #15 on: December 28, 2010, 01:54:10 PM »
Nes.


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