Why do people say you should up your "calories" when

>>39897367
Yes

calories in general will help you grow.

>>39897367
No

>>39897367
>It's misleading because it could be interpreted as "do what you're doing but eat 500 extra calories of potato chips each day" or whatever.

You have to be a specialle kind of stupid to think this desu senpai

>>39897367
Maybe

>>39897367
no need to up your protein on a bulk honestly. Just carbs.

>>39897367
You see, you need to give your body more calories then it needs to live and function perfectly throughout the day.
Why? Because the body really doesn't want to build extra mass of any kind when there is less food then it needs. It wants to get rid of anything that it doesn't use.
Like the muscle that you are building and can only maintain by working out.

So you up the amount of calories you need to give your body more then it needs so that it can build extra bodymass.

The body needs only moderate amounts of protein to make muscle. That actually makes up a relatively small amount of the calories you eat.

Everything else, except for certain chemicals and alcohol, can be turned into exactly what the body needs to function. So once the basic protein needs are met you can have a diet of almost anything and build muscle.

>>39897367
Carbs and fats don't turn into muscle but eating at a surplus ensures that your body won't use the protein you consume for gluconeogenesis evangelion.

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>>39897472

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM tell me more. I have been wrong my entire life! I figured surplus calories with no additional protein meant that you wouldn't actually bulk.

>>39897508
Read the sticky.