Brad Pilon.com » one pound of muscle http://bradpilon.com Eat Stop Eat, Intermittent fastin for Weight Loss, Muscle Building, Fasting and health Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:45:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 One Pound of Muscle http://bradpilon.com/weight-loss/weight-loss-science/one-pound-of-muscle/ http://bradpilon.com/weight-loss/weight-loss-science/one-pound-of-muscle/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:33:07 +0000 Brad Pilon http://bradpilon.com/?p=415 After yesterday’s post I received a number of questions regarding muscle.

Specifically, the comment I made about the fact that muscle isn’t protein…at least not all of it.

Truthfully, human muscle is about 20% protein (of which only about 50% … Read More

]]> After yesterday’s post I received a number of questions regarding muscle.

Specifically, the comment I made about the fact that muscle isn’t protein…at least not all of it.

Truthfully, human muscle is about 20% protein (of which only about 50% is actual contractile protein)..the rest is fluid (with a super small amount of fat and sugar)

To give you an idea, here is a video illustrating what roughly one pound of muscle actually looks like OUTSIDE of your body:

(You  might need to scroll down just a little to press play on the video screen)

MUSCLE VIDEO

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