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Originally Posted by TheSutterDynasty
Still waiting for a response.
Also, what do people think is the physiological purpose of having a lot of body weight to lift more? Besides having a huge gut to bounce up off of at the bottom of a squat.
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Well that's two questions...
The type of energy you eat does affect how your body processes the energy. The specifics of this answer are extremely complex and it would take you several post-graduate degrees to understand why and even then there are lots of things about the body we simply do not know. They involve complex hormonal and feedback systems within the body. I'll give you two examples off the top of my head:
1) If you eat a lot of simple sugars you will get an insulin spike which can encourage your body to put on fat. This doesn't happen with complex carbs which results in more gradual release of sugar into your body.
2) During exercise your body shuts down most of its digestive functions and puts energy into catabolic functions to generate energy. After working out your body goes into a recovery mode. If you eat lots of protein during this recovery period, it encourages your body to build muscle. It's basically a feedback system where if your body is flush with amino acids, your body makes a functional decision that you can indeed support more muscle and have the necessary amino acids (which in nature can be rare) to support the maintenance of that muscle.
Question 2:
Physics. Momentum of an object of greater mass is greater than momentum of an object of lesser mass, assuming constant speed. An object with more mass, can, therefore, more easily move a heavier weight. In addition, being heavier can increase muscle strength since you have to lug your fat ass around. If you look at the champion strong men, they tend to be guys with decent sized guts. Also, unless you are on steroids, your body will not generally gain large amounts of muscle unless you also consume lots of calories....which leads to fat (mass in general).