What are calories?

What Are Calories? - Freaking Beast 

Calories plays a major role in the whole game of body building and fitness.

First let us know what is calories !

Calories are unit of energy. The meal which we consume through out the day are actually calories which we are consuming. They are major part of the nutrition.

So now lets talk about fat loss and body building , What role does calories plays in it.

There is a specific maintenance calories for every individual, it varies from individual to individual. 

• So lets say a person whose goal is fat loss, so he has to go for caloric deficit which means he has to decrease its calories intake from his maintenance calories.

 •  Similarlya person who is very lean or wants to build person he has to go for caloric surplus ,which means to increase the caloric intake than its maintenance calories.                                               

Now the question arise how to know the maintenance calories amount, so there is a way or simply you can say a formula that helps us to know our maintenance calories,it will be posted on the next blog.