Does Building Muscle Burn Fat?
Posted on September 16th, 2009 in Burn Stomach Fat
Like, if I want to get rid of arm fat, would making my arms muscular do the trick?
And would doing alot of situps to build ab muscles help burn stomach fat?
Also, any other good exercises for building muscles in the arms, legs, and stomach?
thanks.(=
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September 16th, 2009
Yes. Building muscle does burn more fat. You may gain weight at first due to muscle gain but it will burn the fat your body doesn’t need.
September 16th, 2009
Yes but not in the way you’re thinking
“Contrary to what the infomercials suggest there is no such thing as spot reduction. Fat is lost throughout the body in a pattern dependent upon genetics, sex (hormones), and age. Overall body fat must be reduced to lose fat in any particular area. Although fat is lost or gained throughout the body it seems the first area to get fat, or the last area to become lean, is the midsection (in men and some women, especially after menopause) and hips and thighs (in women and few men). Sit-ups, crunches, leg-hip raises, leg raises, hip adduction, hip abduction, etc. will only exercise the muscles under the fat.”
However doing strength training does burn calories and when your muscles repair and grow after strength training that burns more calories, but you can’t “target” any fat for loss in any way.
September 16th, 2009
You can’t burn fat here and there like we would all love to but if you do cardio and a full body work out you will burn fat and tone your whole body. Try to find workouts that require the most muscles like dead lift, bench, power clean, incline press, and decline press. Dumb bells are awesome too. Look for a workout guide with pictures and steps so that you can execute the lift properly. Improper lifting can mean serious injury and wasting your time. The more muscle you have the more fat is burned because muscle requires energy to maintain. So what I’m trying to say is get your whole body in shape and you will achieve your goal in less time than if you focused on just you arms and legs. Hope this helps
September 16th, 2009
yeeeeeeeeeeessss let me explain this to you so you know about this in the future.
muscle burns fat because.
musle need energy and oxygen to survive they become your own personal fat burners, as you build muscle your fat cells begin to shirnk becasue the mucle ceells are growing hence burning the fat.
2) situps do burn stomach fat: try to do crunchs more they will burn more fat, though weight excerises should not be done everyday due to recovery situps/crunchs CAN be done everyday, this is becasue you are not bulindging any muscle you are just burning fat while working with the core.
3) no weights? no problem to build arm muscle and get rid of the flab just do pushups in sets of 10 to start so mabey 3×10 then put your feet on a chair and do another 3×10 pushups. the pushup in general works triceps,front shoulder,chest, and core(holds you up). next grab a chair and start to do dips on it this also builds the tricepts(arms 3/4 of your arm)
for the legs: to burn some serious fat heres whta you do at home. sqauts, skipping,running on the sport, high knee running, running/joging,sprtinging, lunges and also good strechsing in the legs
stomach? you dont build muscle you just burn fat in this area, leg raises,reverse crunchs, situps crunchs
September 16th, 2009
Most information you will receive is inaccurate when it comes to losing fat. Don’t get scammed by all of these people out there telling you to take x product and you will lose fat. It simply isn’t the case.
To answer your question, yes muscle absolutely helps you to burn fat. The more muscle you have the more energy is required to feed the muscles. This causes an increase in your metabolism which will aid in burning fat on your body.
The problem is there is no way to spot reduce fat with the exception of liposuction. So if you want to burn fat on your arms you need to focus on your overall muscle mass.
The two best methods for burning fat are interval training and weight training. Interval training is a high intensity form of cardio that burns a lot of calories in a short period of time.
Another issue with burning fat, and this is a big one, is your diet. If you don’t have a good diet you will have trouble burning off fat.
Some simple tips to better your diet would be to cut out sugar, increase your fiber intake, eat 5-6 meals a day, and drink a glass of water just prior to meals to help fill you up.
If you would like some more detailed information here are a few ehow articles that go more in depth on this.
September 16th, 2009
Building muscle improves your metabolism.
Fat does not become muscle, nor does muscle become fat.
I suggest you do crunches, pull-ups, push-ups, dumb-bell curls, dumb-bell kick-outs, squats, leg-lifts and kick-ups, and jump rope.
But more importantly, work in cardio. Running, biking, elliptical, whatever.
2 days cardio (45-60 minutes), 1 day calisthenics (45 minutes), then repeat, then take a day off.
September 17th, 2009
When you exercise your body uses some of the energy stored in fat amount depends on calories intake at the time. By developing muscles in areas mentioned you can develop supporting structure to hold some level of fat in place. Think they use word tone-up for fast effect, and over time exercise will burn fat.
September 17th, 2009
Yepp, when you build muscle, the skin tightens and isn’t loose like fat would be.
For stomach: First, you got to eat right so you don’t have extra fat on where you can easily build a six pack, because remember, everyone has a six pack. There’s just fat on other people covering it up. Once you do that, do CRUNCHES. Those REALLY help.
For arms: push-ups is the best way. Do sets of 20 and slow. Lifting weights would help alot too.
For legs: Running. Run a mile or two around your neighborhood. First take it slow, and increase the distance every time. Ride your bike. For muscle on your legs especially, the best way to do this would be to run up a hill.
September 17th, 2009
I guess i would say technically building muscle does not burn fat, it converts it to muscle. and on a girl, muscle is nasty (my opinion) what you should do if you want to lose arm fat is get a restraint system (rubber band system) or do very light weight and do alot of reps. it does convert it to muscle it just keeps it compact and tone
September 17th, 2009
My dad was 1992 mr. new jersey for bodybuilding so weightlifting is the KEY to loosing any weight no matter where it is. A great exercise is getting one of this inflatable yoga balls, and have lay on it like tabletop flat and do situps from there, with your legs glued together ( the more your legs are glued together the harder and better results you will get ! )
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September 17th, 2009
yes building muscle does burn off fat
but you need to do cardio as well
only with a combination of the two can you burn off fat
the cardio (running, walking, etc.) gets rid of the actual fat while building muscle makes it nice and firm and fit
September 17th, 2009
no it doesnt work like that. Working the muscle underneath the fat wont burn the fat off, u cant target fat loss. It happens all over at once. You burn off fat with diet and cardio.
yes having more muscle means u will burn more cals, but not to specific areas.
September 17th, 2009
Yes but It will make you “gain weight” but you will be skinnier and stronger. The reason you weigh more is because muscle weighs more than fat so according to the scale you will gain weight but to the mirror you will look fabulous!
September 17th, 2009
situps are very good too do and yes they do burn fat when your applying some amount of energy ur always burning calories weather it be an extremely small amount but if you do pushups and situps everyday even with some pull ups and jogging or running youll be good
September 17th, 2009
In a sense it can because muscle is built through vigorous exercise while also burning fat but if you still eat more calories then you burn you will gain wait
it’s a simple formula
good luck
September 18th, 2009
Definitely! Muscles burn calories. An obese person could do the same work-out as a very muscular person and not burn nearly as much energy.
September 18th, 2009
you cant reduce fat in specific places- no spot reduction, but the more muscle you have, the more calories (fat) you burn at rest
September 18th, 2009
you totally! just one tip
if you’ve been working out for a while and dont weigh less or start to weigh more, dont freak out, because muscle weighs more than fat!!
September 18th, 2009
you need to run to loose fat…doing situps will reduce it a certain amount but will make our ab’s bigger and so more noticable seeming like you have less fat
September 18th, 2009
Yes because while your trying to build muscle your fat cells are burning at the same time so that the muscles can show.
September 18th, 2009
no actually that would put more weight on you cuz your putting on more muscles than you already have
September 19th, 2009
While yes it can, its more efficient to do cardio to remove fat.
September 19th, 2009
most ways you could get muscles would also burn fat i guess
September 19th, 2009
yes but it also really helps to get an aerobic workout too
September 19th, 2009
ya it helps muscle weighs more than fat but it burns fat too
September 19th, 2009
tec. yes it can
but you gain the weight back in muscle weird huh but it pays off
September 20th, 2009
yes it does…
for really good abs lay down and do leg lifts
legs and butt do squats
September 20th, 2009
yes and it would fill in that room where fat was
September 20th, 2009
yah but dont freak out when you gain weight. muscle weighs more than fat
September 20th, 2009
yes i9t does. lol but you should run for a wile to get body tone then work out
September 20th, 2009
Building muscle burns fat, because having more muscle means you have increased your metabolism. Muscle burns energy even when it’s doing nothing while you’re sitting or sleeping.
By building muscle (think chicken breast meat), you add shape, definition and firmness to your body wherever you build it, like your arms, tummy, legs, butt, etc. This is why women that know about gym training like squats and lunges because they target the hips,bum abs and thighs. Doing exercise burns energy, which sheds your fat, but also building lean tissue will shape you. Dieting alone with cardio, just shrinks you from a pear or apple to a smaller pear or apple. Training with weights however, adds shape in all the right places.
Here is my diet and exercise guide, at the end is a link for exercises and how to do them, but you should join a website like I mentioned for the best results.
Weight loss is all about this equation: energy taken in-energy used (energy for maintaining weight+energy burned in activity)
The basic equation to approximate maintenance needs is:
Maintenance=body weight in poundsx12
This is an estimate, and you may gain/lose according to difference in metabolism/activity level, weight you have to lose, genetic factors.
Conversion of weights: 300lbs:136kg:21stone or 1stone=14lbs, 1kg=2.2lbs
If you follow the maintenance and still gain/lose adjust by 250-500cals, monitoring weight after a week for reliability. Once you have a reasonable estimate, you want to lose weight healthily, otherwise, besides compromising health, your body realises what’s happening and thinks it’s being starved to death and will resist your efforts by slowing metabolism. When you do eat, it will then use this opportunity to regain as much fat as possible, perhaps more than before. It’s also important to realise most weight loss in the first week is mainly water, which easily comes back when eating normalises, as water is stored in the body with energy stores.
The guideline for healthy loss, is 1-2lbs a week. This correlates to 3500-7000cals per week, or 500-1000cals less per day than maintenance.
Example: 200lbs person, maintenance= 200×12=2400cals a day
2lbs loss a week=7000cals a week or 1000cals less a day
2400-1000= 1400cals a day produces 2lbs a week loss.
When weight loss stops, you can increase activity and/or decrease cals further by 250-500cals per day.
Diet wise, fruits, veg, grains, brown bread and wholewheat pasta, good fats from extra virgin olive oil, oily fish like salmon, mackerel,fresh not tinned tuna, kippers. Lean sources protein like skinless poultry,lean cuts red meat, eggs, skim milk. At least 2litres or 8pints of water daily is recommended, more if exercising/in hot weather. You’ll need to look at everything you eat, not just the writing advertising the product, but the real information they hide on the back with the calories,carbs,protein,fat and salt. Eventually, you’ll get an idea for the energy in foods, and you won’t always need to check. One thing to watch out for considering salt intake should be under5g, 1g sodium is 3-4g salt. Most of us eat 6-15g or more salt a day, the only way to cut this enough is to stop eating the premade, prepackaged ready meals and sauces.
Exercise wise, gym training with weights is very beneficial bringing many more health improvements beyond cardio. Resistance training means you don’t just shrink from a pear/apple shape to a smaller pear/apple, but you actually shape your body at the same time. You won’t bulk up or become huge, the freaks you see take drugs and have done it for decades. Men have the advantage of testosterone but they still have to work for it, women build muscle much less because they have much smaller amounts of testosterone (except for the ones taking drugs). Resistance training strengthens immune system, boosts metabolism better than cardio (3days vs 30mins-1hr), boosts metabolism longterm and while asleep due to better active tissue in the body, improves circulation, lowers blood pressure, improves digestion, and the list goes on. Cardio is also fine every now and then. Running/jogging on a treadmill is the quickest and easiest way to burn energy as you use bodyweight for resistance, and the treadmill is better on the knees than the ground. I recommend joining a website forum for fitness/training/bodybuilding/powerlifti… you don’t need to be or want to be a bodybuilder/powerlifter or a pro althlete, but you will need to follow similar diets and exercise plans to achieve good results, and the members have years of experience, offering great advice with nutrition plans and exercise routines. Aim your goals high and you’ll achieve the results you’re after that much sooner. http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html
Don’t worry about the complicated names on the left, the ones on the right should make sense. The butt is the gluteus maximus.