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That's just the energy used for the exercise itself, it doesn't count the extra calories needed for your cells to repair themselves. Powering the machinery of repair takes energy and raw materials. Those extra raw materials (protein, fats, and carbohydrates) are taken from normal diet leaving the body in more of a deficit, which feeding behavior usually corrects for by increasing intake


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