Next question is from Dina Larson. On a recent episode, you guys talked about how a pound of muscle burns approximately 50 extra calories, but I recently read that this is a myth and a pound of muscle only burns an extra 7 to 15 calories. Can you clarify which is true?  This feels like a gotcha moment. Yeah, this is the thing that I can't stand about us as a whole, as this is a fitness space is that we get into this pissing contest of who is more right and which, okay, there's also the other side of that. I do appreciate, you know, the debate and then studies that are disproving other studies and us growing and learning. And so I can appreciate some of it, but I'm very careful about how I present information is that the desired outcome is to actually help people, right? The desired outcome is to get people to move in the right direction. And so what I don't want to do is I don't want to overwhelm people all the time with what the latest scientific study proved or proved wrong or proved right if it's not going to really help my client. This is an example of this is an example of you can read like a ton of different research around this that like will disprove that. And I'm telling you firsthand experience from training tons and tons of people that when you put on, okay, three to five pounds of muscle, someone, they are able to eat a ton more calories than what before. And by a ton more, I mean like hundreds of more calories, not 10 or 15 more calories. They can eat a lot more. Now what I don't know for sure is that that is just because of the lean body mass. They built three pounds of muscle. I'm not sure what is good. And I think it's very arrogant for anyone to claim that they know either. The metabolism is one of the most complex things. Metabolism, gut, brain, universe.  And we're still women. That's five right there. Score and points with our females. I know you are today. You're on one. No, these are the things that we're still learning a ton about. And then what ends up happening is people will go, oh, it's only seven calories. So why would I care about putting on five pounds of muscle to my body? It's only going to mean I can eat 35. It means when I can have a bite more. It doesn't work. So there's two things here we need to pay attention to. Number one, okay, it speeds up your metabolism. So whether it's 15 calories, 50 calories, adding muscle means you burn more calories. That's a fact. Also, here's number two, okay? There's a lot going on in the process of sending the signal to build muscle. There's a lot going on. Part of that is telling your body you need more calories, black and white, because you have more muscle tissue. But another part of that is telling your body you don't have to be as efficient with calories. There's a lot of energy. Call it what you will for lack of a better term, energy waste that happens when your body doesn't feel like it needs to conserve every single calorie. You can take someone and add no muscle to their body and get their body to burn more calories through changing their sleep, through lifting weights, through making them healthier. You'll see that their body just burns more. You can change someone's hormones and have their body burn more calories or less calories without a necessary change in body mass. I've observed this time and time again. I could take someone, not have them lose muscle yet. They will eventually, but not have them lose muscle and their bodies start to slow down their caloric burn. Your body becomes more or less efficient with its calorie burn or calorie storage based upon the signals that it receives. So it's actually more of a multi-pronged approach. Lifting weights tells your body to build more muscle. Is that alone going to speed up your metabolism? Probably not. You also need to feed yourself a little bit more. Now this is telling your body, hey, it's okay to become less efficient with calories because we got calories coming in. The third thing is let's not do things that make our body feel like it needs to store calories because it's under stress. In other words, don't avoid sleep. Make sure you get good sleep because when you avoid sleep, you're stressed. Now your body thinks it needs to hold on to calories. So get good sleep. Have good relationships. Your hormone profile needs to be pretty good or healthy. That typically is a reflection of your lifestyle. When that's all happening, your body becomes looser with how it uses calories. Actually, the studies have shown it'll burn more calories just to maintain your body heat and that right there will burn sometimes hundreds of calories more every single day. And I'll back Adam up. I've seen this happen so often and so consistently that it's a rule. I could speed someone's metabolism up every single time by applying those things. Every single time. It's not only that. They're also teasing out.  It's like, okay, if someone added five pounds of muscle, so the body is always going to adapt, right? It's always going to respond to whatever signal you're sending to it or improve or go the other way in atrophy. If you've done the right work eating correctly and increasing your training volume to actually add three to five pounds of muscle, there's also that extra volume that you're having to train in order to keep that muscle because if you stop training that volume, that muscle would atrophy. So then there's also going to be more calories that are burnt in your workout but they're teasing that out because that's movement, right? So they're teasing out that you have to move more in order to keep those or lift more in order to keep that muscle. They're looking at just what is muscle using. Muscle is only using, based off this new research, seven to 15 calories more a day and we've been telling people it's 50. Well, what about the work that that person has to continually do now in order to maintain that new muscle mass that they have built on their body? You've got to bring that into consideration. Yeah, and it's just a very simplistic black and white view of a very complex thing like metabolism. Common sense, okay? We all know somebody who's 150 pounds, not a lot of muscle, not a lot of body fat either and they can eat three times as much as your other friend who's 230 pounds and seems to gain body fat all the time very easily. What's going on? The fatter person probably actually has more lean body mass than the person who's skinny so there's a lot more going on here but here's the fact. This is actually what matters, okay? Studies that show, oh, it's this many calories, that many calories, okay? That doesn't matter, here's what matters. Building muscle and doing the things that encourage muscle building speed up the metabolism, that's the bottom line. If you want a faster metabolism which will make staying lean easier in a modern world where food is accessible, where we're sedentary all the time and we're busy so we don't have the time to go and do tons of cardio all the time if we want to have a faster metabolism in that context then try to build muscle, that's the bottom line. The reason why I hate this stuff is because the person who's good with math would go, wait a second, why should I put all this effort into trying to build two pounds of muscle when I know that actually 25 jumping jacks burns the same amount of calories? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So I'm not going to go to lift weights anymore because my trainer told me that it speeds my metabolism, he's wrong. 30 calories? I could just stand while I play video games. I could literally just do 30 crunches and 25 jumping jacks burn more calories per day and not have to stress about, that's what I don't like about stuff like this is when we get into these pissing contests of who's more right, the truth is this, if you build muscle, if you go through a muscle building program where you add three to five, I promise you, go do it and tell me if you think you're eating more calories now than what you were before.


Welcome back folks. I doubt I was down 13 as it's a 30 s&p's a flat. Let's go over to our man Mr. Teddy cakes that as you do each and every Wednesday at 40 past the hour You can reach Teddy every trading day folks at 4x-trading-unlocked.com That's 4x-trading-unlocked.com. Teddy cakes that what's going on? Morning guys, you want to talk about the end your favorite currency today?  I was gonna stop with you because this 109 29 109 30s drive me out of my mind man because that number if it goes over it I'll be in trouble in the gold market. I think that you might have a good shot at that happening Okay, there might be some new highs. So you might I think that might be something to definitely pay attention to yeah No, I it's charging into it. I mean it failed the first time right came up there again yesterday and I just lay in there, right? Right well, here's something I wanted I want to point out to you the dollar index looks like it's made a nice little turn Except for the past couple of days. It's had a nice little bounce after it made some new move lows on the daily chart Yeah, and I'm not actually The yen actually where the dollar index has been trading lower for since basically October 1st Most of your major currencies have gotten a little bit of a lift in that period Okay, except for the dollar yen the dollar yen has been a bull in a falling dollar index But we've had a little bit of divergence though because if you look at the yen chart over the past couple days We've had a nice explosive rally off of that last a higher move low Yes, and that's all in the wake of a little dollar bounce to so they've kind of gone in tandem there But I think that that's going to actually fall apart the dollar index is going to fall apart And then we're going to still see the yen go higher Dollar yen that so when you look at the dollar yen I mean, I guess you my benchmark here is that that 109 32 the last time we made it up to 109 29 Yes, they made it 109 24. Where are you looking if we do break that? Where where you're looking that you might be that maybe might be able to run to oh I think that if we've reached that I think that we're going to start to establish a new base And I think we're going to be up in the 110 111 12 handle Maybe by the year right because that 112 that's the next area right that goes back to April of 2019. Okay Yeah, and it would take about it's going to take about a month and a half to two months to get there. I think yeah Well, we'll see where that shakes out man because that that that would be a tough one for gold There's no doubt about seeing the reactions. Yeah, that the gold market takes conniptions folks when the yen gets weaker Yep. Yeah, but it's good. It's good for your equity traders out there because if the ends if the dollar yen is going in That direction our exports will be doing better.  And what about what are you looking at with the euro and the pound? The euro and the pound okay now there I think we're gonna start to see a little bit more of strength, but not in that big of a volatile fashion though I don't think the euro can climb that high I think the dollar index is gonna keep on going lower, which will push the the euro and the pound both higher Brexit stuff. I mean we're not even gonna talk about that today Right, why not we got a full month of the election man About it for two years three. Yeah, I know exactly the same especially after Brexit not happening on the 31st But I think this is good though because I think the dollar index really is your guide. Remember, we're heading into our fourth quarter We're going into the end of the year We're gonna have a lot of balancing come the end of the month getting ready for year-end, you know So it would make sense that right now we have a little rally to sell in the dollar index Which would push the euro higher maybe get it back up to that like 113 114 115 area But I don't I see it being like if you look at the range in the euro and like the Swiss The Swiss is the only currency that actually gets any real range on a daily basis And now we have the pound where it's floating underneath highs and its range is getting really tight It always scares me when you see the pound having tight ranges even in slow markets. Okay, let me ask you Teddy when we talk, you know at the end of the year with the balancing, right? How exactly does that work? I you know like is it companies that they're gonna bring dollars back and Euros back how does that work coming into the end of the year? Okay, well then you okay That's a good question because on the company basis you do have a currency balancing where people may want to reposition themselves for January Especially with their books Sometimes you want to end the year on one note in one way just to set yourself up for the beginning of your first quarter You know there's definitely a balancing and that depends on each individual like if let's say you're A coffee importer from the United States and you're coming out of brazil or art You know out of South America. Yes, you know You definitely might want to have something to do with your contracts depending on your positions and any type of deliveries You may have right and then you have something like an auto manufacturer. It's a totally different case, you know, so They the majority I mean I've read about it so many times so the majority whether it's large companies They they basically like to do that at the end of the year I wonder if that's an order and a what's what it's for. Do you know I'm saying to really get probably a better understanding of the balance sheet I think so I think because it doesn't matter what their accounting set cycle is they all go on quarter basis no matter what Yeah, I think it's really for that on purpose, you know, and then you have your banks as well They do a lot of balancing to and month-end and quarter-end let alone year. Okay. Okay, so This currency business is pretty cool business. I mean it's been fluctuating pretty intense Volatility, yeah, right. Yeah, but like I said, I think that you're not going to see much of like In the year like I think the yen is where you have your biggest potential for swings on a daily basis and even on a trending basis Because the euro no matter what the news is like they tried to break it down and you didn't get any severe breaks Like it's only because we're looking at it's the volatility has been so low that it looks like it's actually been swinging around the past Like few weeks especially and it really hasn't been you know, if you look at the rain Right, you know, whereas you know, the yen said some real movement man I mean that that movement, you know has been when we're open not even when you know the bottom line when they're open You know versus that that's kind of intriguing and the aspect that there was more action Yesterday when our markets are open versus their markets, you know, so right someone's buying it, right? I was selling it Yeah, it was getting we're selling it. Okay, right Pretty wild man. No doubt about that I'm with you with the gold trade to like I'm watching that as well Like I think that we're coming to a nice little friction point for that Yeah, well, you know when it hasn't broken a swing yet. I mean, it's what's so intriguing the gold Trade to me is just like the bond trade. It came down fast and furious But right September 13th at benchmark neither one of them broke that benchmark and the last two times they came down You know, they basically came down and what ended up happening with that with that baby I guess gold is that's October first October first in the bonds of September 13th. Okay You get the day on the head right there October first was a big turning point for currencies interest rates and metals Yeah, yeah So, you know to me if you when you can't make it to the swing point even if you know, you get some juice behind it It's like, okay, why not that means that this buy is better sitting there, you know So and then of course the bonds That's that's that's just that's gonna be a story that's been gonna be written in a huge way, you know, right? So pretty crazy. It's it's not even talking about oil. Remember how we used to use talking about oil We haven't even talked about that in a while for some reason that's kind of off the table right now It's tough to compete when other markets are rocking and rolling, but oh, yeah, and we just had right We just had the oil numbers steady at 10 30 It's like almost an 8 million barrel built so we might see a little lower price today, but we'll find out man That is I'm happy every time I go to the pumps lately, right? Well, some we were talking about with Kevin Hicks same. It's so true man I mean, it's it's a big deal cash to the bottom line. Well, listen man You have a great one a safe one and folks you can reach Teddy every trading day at 4x dash trading dash unlock calm Teddy we look forward to having your next Wednesday. Thanks guys. Yeah, good day. Thanks Teddy. You too, man We have it out on 14. That's like up 32 recipes black from my back