I am very suspicious of the 'experts' who calculate how many calories each pound of muscle will burn and then pronounce that adding muscle has little effect on weight loss or maintenance. It sounds very much like those experts who assure us that it is impossible to lose more weight with a low carb diet than with a low fat diet. You know, the old 'a calorie is a calorie' bit. Human bodies are not test tubes, and what goes on in our bodies is not as simple as some controlled reaction in a lab.

I won't be at all surprised to read some day that added muscle has some thermogenic effect that does indeed burn more calories in the human body.