Only partially true. I doubt I can gain much muscle in the kitchen without adding some gym time. True a surplus is necessary. But it is only one factor in the equation. Another factor is routine. To make the most of the kitchen time a full body routine is much better than a split for building that necessary base.
I would appreciate it if people actually read my posts. The statement I corrected was that training increased your
weight. This is not true as creating mass out of anything other than 'energy in', i.e. calories, would be defying the laws of physics.
If you don't believe me, here is a link to a site explaining energy transfer to small children, energy is not 'created' nor is it 'lost', it always transfers
BBC - Schools - KS3 Bitesize - Science - Physics - Energy Resources and Energy Transfer, therefore weight gain is absolutely not possible without a calorie surplus as you can't create energy out of nothing so weight training has no effect on
weight gain * at all. (*Please note that I said weight gain and not muscle gain, this simple distiction seems to have escaped some of you.)
Something slightly more advanced now from the biology point of view, read the section on 'what is metabolism'
High School Biology - Cellular Respiration. Anabolism only occurs when there is an excess of supply, I'm afraid it's an unavoidable fact
Weight training simply influences the type of new tissue that is created with the building blocks you supply.
And to tenpercent, here is my post again, maybe the second time around you can read the part about training also being required for muscle development.
IThe amount of training you give a muscle has absolutely no effect on your weight, that comes purely from your diet. In order to gain muscle mass you need the training to be mixed with a calorie surplus sufficient to fuel growth.