Can You Build Muscle And Burn Fat
At the Same Time?

Can you Build Muscle and Burn Fat at the same time?

How?

It's all about calories in, calories out stuff or the calorie balance .

To lose weight, you burn more than you eat. Period.

Say, you need 3,000 calories per day to maintain your current weight.

If you cut 1,000 calories per day from your diet, you would effectively lose 2 lbs per week.

(Note: 1 lb of weight = 3,500 calories; 1,000 calories x 7 days = 7,000 calories = 2 lbs of weight)

It doesn't matter if you eat 2,000 calories worth of fruits & vegetables or 2,000 calories worth of meat per day; you'll lose weight due to the calorie deficit.

And the interesting thing is this - you don't have to cut all the 1,000 calories from your diet to maintain the said calorie deficit.

You can cut 500 calories from your diet and burn off the other 500 calories by building muscle, which lifts higher your metabolic rate to burn off the fat.

One, it's denser than fat hence weighs more. That's why when you've muscle, you tend to weigh heavier.

Two, it burns more calories than fat.

Three, it burns calories even while you're at rest.

Fourth, it speeds up your metabolism, so the more muscle you've, the higher your metabolism.

Can you see, if you build muscle, it's really a good foundation for burning fat?

Workout with weights is the way.

It promotes growth of lean muscle mass. In the process of doing weights, your body needs the additional calories since it has to repair the muscle you damaged by building new muscle.

Once your body builds the new muscle, it needs additional calories at rest and so your metabolism increases proportionately.

If you continue with your weight workout, you can see it works superbly in your favor.

And working out with weights can result in a raised metabolic rate for up to 72 hours after you've ceased your workout.

See how many more calories you can burn off this way then?

Do weights, 3-4 times per week for 20-30 minutes per session. It would be sufficient to help you achieve that.

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