Building Muscle Burns Fat!

Fat by far is the hardest thing to lose for everyone regardless of your size and shape. One pound of fat has 3500 calories which can take a lot of activity in order to burn off. This is where muscle comes into play every pound of muscle burns 30 to 50 calories per day which may not sound like a lot but in the long run it can really add up with diet and exercise.

Fat burning can be difficult this is where adding cardio and weight training together to achieve further success. Keeping your metabolism up is the best way to stay in a fat burning zone even when you’re not working out. Cardio must be paired with weight training because during a cardio workout the majority of calories are being burned during the exercise while with weight lifting muscle is being built which can keep the body in a fat burning zone way after the workout has been completed.

Men and women can both benefit from weight lifting. Women must realize that they won’t become muscle heads if they start to lift weights. It’s not in your genetic make up to look such a way. The female body builders must spend countless hours’ weight lifting while taking huge amounts of protein to force their bodies out of their natural state. As for the men weight training is great because that is what our bodies were made for: to build muscle. Men’s bodies are full of testosterone which is the muscle building hormone and with that being said our bodies have an advantage when it comes to gaining muscle mass.


Although weight training is a great workout, cardio must be done as well to help slim down and lose those extra pounds of body fat. In conjunction both kinds of exercises will help you reach your goals far faster than just performing one exercise over the other.