Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle

The majority of fitness gurus will tell you that the best way to boost your metabolism and lose weight really quickly is to start weight training to build some more lean muscle tissue. People in the weight loss community are being fed information that if you build some extra muscle, you will burn more calories as a result. So just how true is this statement? And can a little extra muscle burn fat at a faster rate without anything else?

There have been countless studies to find out how many calories were burt up for every pound of muscle on the body. The conclusion of these studies found that between 30 to 50 extra calories were being burnt up for each pound of muscle added to your body. So now that we know that this fact has been clearly confirmed, we should now find out how long it would take us to build or grow an additional pound of muscle?

For the average man, it takes around one month, but for women, it often can take twice as long or even longer. If your not going to use supplements of any kind when building muscle, remember that it can be a slow process of repeating the tearing and then rebuilding of your muscles. If you want extra muscle to aid you in weight loss, the process of tearing and repairing is the only effective way to see good results with your workouts over time.

If you plan to participate in bodybuilding for an increase of fat burning muscle, there are many quality methods that have been developed to do it properly. It doesn't matter what program you end up choosing because there are always a couple necessary actions that will always have to take place if you want to maximize your muscle growth and at the same time, minimize the pain that often comes with tearing your muscles.

When working out any muscle by using weights or resistance, you will find that you get to a point where your muscle is unable to continue lifting and will become completely weak. This is what if referred to as "the point of failure". When pushing a muscle to this point, it will start to get tiny tears within itself. These little rips start to rebuild when there's protein available, generally over the next 48 hours of recovering which will leave you with a small gain in new muscle tissue. It's this added muscle that ends up getting rid of all those excess fat calories.

To be as pain-free as possible while bodybuilding, it's improtant that you learn to properly stretch. After tearing a muscle, a chemical known as lactic acid enters the area and the healing process will begin. It's the lactic acid that causes any pain in the muscles after intense workouts. Stretching properly helps to reduce the severity of the day after pain many people feel from doing an intense workout by dispersing lactic acid that builds up in your muscles.

It's a good idea, at least if you are just beginning, not to perform weight training every day. At maximum, you are advised to have a day on, day off approach set in place so that you can give yourself that 48 hours for recovering. You could always do other forms of lighter exercise while you are on an "off" day to burn extra calories. Some muscle groups, however, recover and heal much faster than most of the others and an example are your adbominal muscles, which you are able to workout daily.

When you start weight lifting for the result of growing muscle, it is vital to start consuming a quality source of protein as this is what your muscles are mostly made from. So just how much protein will you need to eat if you begin weight training? If you plan to exercise regularly and vigorously, you should increase your protein intake slighly above the RDA's recommended amount of 0.8 g/kg to 1.2-1.8 g/kg.

So just how many calories can all of this extra muscle burn? If you were to add say, one pound of new muscle, you would end up burning roughly an extra 1500 calories each month and that's without doing any additional dieting or exercise. If you were to gain an additional 10 pounds of new muscle from a continued workout program, you would burn an extra fifteen thousand calories each and every month that would end up accounting for a lot of extra fat loss.