Monday, June 27, 2016

Building Muscle and Losing Fat - Why You Should Build Muscle to Burn Fat



Most people don't realize how big of a effect weight training has on fat loss. They only associate weight training with bigger muscles and strength. This is a big mistake and one of the main reasons why people are not losing fat successfully. This of course does not mean that building muscle with weight training is THE solution to fat loss. No, it is not THE solution, it is A solution.

Building Muscle

Building muscle and losing fat

Weight training, as you may already know, increases your lean body mass. A increase in lean body mass means that your metabolic rate gets faster and therefore you burn more calories. This means you burn more calories even if you are resting or sleeping. For example if a person weighs 180 pounds and has 15% body fat, then his metabolic rate would be 1880 calories a day. Now if the same person drops his body fat percentage to 8%, then at the same 180 pounds , then his metabolic rate would be 1986 calories. A 100 calorie increase without increasing exercise or reducing calories.




Maybe an extra 100 calories does not seem to be enough for some people but it al adds up. Since there is 3500 calories in a pound of fat, then the person would burn basically a pound of fat in one month. That is a huge difference and most importantly you lose fat without doing anything yourself. You could watch your favourite TV show and still burn extra calories.

That is also the reason why all of the sprinters you see, have very little body fat. They don´t have to burn calories with boring and long aerobic session, they just have so much muscle mass, that fat melts away very quickly. So if you have the proper weight training, aerobic training and eating plan, then you would easily lose fat.




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