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Is it true that you can burn more fat by building muscle and dieting?

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charliesworld05 asked:


I have seen that in many magazines such as Men’s Health and :Men’s Fitness magazines that builllding muscle is one of the key essential things towards burning fat. Is that true?

Ella

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7 Responses to “Is it true that you can burn more fat by building muscle and dieting?”

  1. dan on June 17th, 2009 1:41 pm

    Ruby

    yes. muscle incinerates calories

  2. jsprplc2006 on June 18th, 2009 2:39 am

    Billy

    Theoretically, yes. It takes a lot more energy to operate a larger amount of muscle. When you have more muscle mass, you can lift heavier objects, and burn more energy quicker.

    Increasing muscle mass also takes a lot of energy in itself, so that will help burn lots of fat too.

  3. Mike G on June 20th, 2009 5:36 am

    Alvin

    yes, the more muscle you have, the easier it is to burn body fat.

    your diet is the number 1 most important thing in determining how much body fat you lose. Weight training and cardio are second to your diet. You can essentially lose weight without doing much exercise, but it takes longer.

  4. flyingknutsen on June 23rd, 2009 2:45 am

    Dawn

    most definitely… muscle requires more energy from your body and thus helps you burn fat. Plus, the exercise you will do to build the muscle will help get rid of the flab as well.

    Find a decent routine working ALL your muscle (back, chest, arms, legs, glutes) and do very little rest between reps for maximum cardio while you lift.

  5. Blue October on June 23rd, 2009 10:39 pm

    Hector

    all the above responders are correct…
    BUT do remember that when you first start ‘building muscle or exercising…even with dieting, you are going to notice a weight increase at first because muscle weighs more than fat.

    after about a week or two of the routine, you will notice your weight beginning to decrease…this will be because fat is going away and being replaced by the muscle (instead of carrying both).

    good luck :)

  6. weightcontrolinfo on June 23rd, 2009 11:27 pm

    Jay

    Yes, definately. It also depends on the diet you’re using. A diet low in fats will help burn fat faster than one higher in fats for obvious reasons.

    Build muscles by lifting weights. When lifting start at half your maximum weight and increase to your maximum by adding 10 lbs after each set of 10 reps. Also lift at a steady pace, don’t hang around and talk, you want to keep your heart rate up to get the maximum effect.

    Also do a warm up before hand, you can peddle a stationery by for 20 minutes at 75% of your maximum resistance. For the next 10 minutes increase the resistance to 100% of your maximum. This gets your cardio going, starts the fat burning process and build leg muscles. Then go into your weight lifting.

  7. Enginerd on June 24th, 2009 1:06 am

    Judith

    if you are going to include weight training, you will loose more weight with proper diet and cardio as well.
    But, you will not seem like you are loosing as much because you will be adding muscle. so the scale is not a good indication of how much fat you are loosing.. example, you might loose 2 lbs of fat in a given week yet gain 1 lbs of muslce, so you wont see on the scale that your weight in decreaseing by very much but your fat will be decreaseing. so jsut look for long term results, not week to week

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