Eating for Muscle Growth
When you think about managing body weight and composition for endurance performance, you probably think about reducing body fat levels. But there are some circumstances in which individual athletes need to gain muscle to perform better. It’s not muscle growth per se that they need; rather, it’s increased muscle strength and power. But muscle strength and power are closely correlated with muscle cross-sectional area. Thus, muscle growth and increased strength and power go hand-in-hand.
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