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Re:Being Fit May Be as Good for You as Not Smoking by bitexploder on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @02:42PM (#18718757)
What is a "big calorie deficit" relative to others? I am just curious because the general physiology is pretty simple and I have read some things that pretty thoroughly debunk endomorph vs. ectomorph. It is must more useful to classify based on muscle fiber composition. People with a lot of fast twitch muscle fiber build muscle quicker, etc.
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Re:Being Fit May Be as Good for You as Not Smoking by 0x8BADF00D on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @02:51PM (#18718866)
What is a "big calorie deficit" relative to others?

For me, I’ve found 400-500 below my maintainence works best.

> It is must more useful to classify based on muscle fiber composition. People with a lot of fast twitch muscle fiber build muscle quicker, etc.

I agree with you here. I needed labels to bin the two (very general) categories of body composition types, so I chose those two.

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Re:Being Fit May Be as Good for You as Not Smoking by bitexploder on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @03:06PM (#18719028)
Makes sense. I have had my RMR tested and I am dead average. I have never had success with small deficits because I am not disciplined enough to maintain -700 net cals per week or whatever.
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