Daily Health Bulletin, Thu 7.9

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Why Lean Body Mass is Important

One of the keys to staying healthy and performing well is building and maintaining lean body mass (LBM).

While many of us have heard the term “lean body mass,” it’s important to understand everything that falls under this umbrella term. 

Lean body mass (LBM) is the total weight of your body, minus your fat mass. LBM includes the weight of your organs, skin, bones, body water, and muscle mass. 

Structures of the organs, skin, and bones can be improved with healthy diet and exercise, but the variable over which we have the most control is muscle mass.

So what is an adequate amount of LBM? It depends on your age, height, gender, and goals, but outside of extreme circumstances (e.g bodybuilders with tons of extra muscle), the more lean body mass you have the better.

Here are some of the benefits of building more lean body mass (you can dig deeper into these in the article below):  

  • More LBM increases your base metabolic rate, and can help keep off pounds of body fat
  • It supports the immune system, and helps the body recover from serious illness
  • Higher levels of muscle mass and thus higher LBM can help improve bone health and bone density 
  • More LBM protects against insulin sensitivity
  • Building more lean mass in earlier decades of life can help you maintain more LBM later in life. 

Want to learn more about why it’s important for practically everyone to build more lean body mass? Checkout tonight’s article from Inbody: 

Why Building Lean Mass is Important


Online Classes for Thursday, July 9th

9am Yoga with Dustin (viewable anytime after 9am)

*Reminder: Some in-gym classes are available on Thursdays. East & New Albany schedules viewable here. 


Workout of the Day

Yoga, active recovery, or complete a workout you missed earlier in the week. 

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In Health,
The 4B Team