Training

Calories: Your #1 Priority


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For muscle gain, calories are the single most important variable in a diet. Calories will meet your energetic demands and when you put yourself into a hypercaloric diet, you will set yourself up well for muscle gain. You need excess calories to build muscle tissue, mass cannot be creating from nothing:

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