Yes, muscles burn more energy than fat tissue. However, this is not a reliable method of loosing weight, because that amount is not too large.
Much better way is spending the excess energy with the help of cardio exercising, e.g. running, cycling, swimming. 1 hour of cardio would burn more fat than your muscles would burn all day long in resting state.
Neverless, building muscles is useful as well. References :
It depends on what you mean by "normal amounts", and if you’re willing to keep working out or not. If you stop working out and keep eating as usual the muscles will atrophy and your metabolism will go back what it was before.
Your body is designed to view fat as a valuable resource. Because millions of years ago..food and stuff like fat and sugar were hard to come by and the body became accustomed to learn the insticnt
eat fat and sugar whenever you can..but in modern times this instinct is no longer needed in our day of excess, but unfortunately that is how we are designed..what does this mean to building muscle and burning fat?
The body will resists the urge to burn off the fat because it views this resource as a valuable life saving item..so often the body will canniblize itself and burn off muscle instead of fat..which is why your question isn’t so cut and dry..
The best bet is to include cardio in your weight lifting to address the fat directly..by jogging lightly within 60% of your max heart rate most of the calories burned will be fat..use this to your advantage and you’ll not only burn off fat but you’ll build muscle at the same time. References :
Yes, muscles burn more energy than fat tissue. However, this is not a reliable method of loosing weight, because that amount is not too large.
Much better way is spending the excess energy with the help of cardio exercising, e.g. running, cycling, swimming. 1 hour of cardio would burn more fat than your muscles would burn all day long in resting state.
Neverless, building muscles is useful as well.
References :
It depends on what you mean by "normal amounts", and if you’re willing to keep working out or not. If you stop working out and keep eating as usual the muscles will atrophy and your metabolism will go back what it was before.
I suggest looking up your current Base Metabolic Rate (http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/) and then your Daily Caloric Needs (http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/harris-benedict-equation/) and play around with the numbers to find out where you need to be by using the different activity factors in your Daily Caloric Needs page.
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well its not that simple…because 10 pounds of muscle burn an extra 1 pound of fat, but 10 pounds of muscle is hard to get
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Your body is designed to view fat as a valuable resource. Because millions of years ago..food and stuff like fat and sugar were hard to come by and the body became accustomed to learn the insticnt
eat fat and sugar whenever you can..but in modern times this instinct is no longer needed in our day of excess, but unfortunately that is how we are designed..what does this mean to building muscle and burning fat?
The body will resists the urge to burn off the fat because it views this resource as a valuable life saving item..so often the body will canniblize itself and burn off muscle instead of fat..which is why your question isn’t so cut and dry..
The best bet is to include cardio in your weight lifting to address the fat directly..by jogging lightly within 60% of your max heart rate most of the calories burned will be fat..use this to your advantage and you’ll not only burn off fat but you’ll build muscle at the same time.
References :