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Weight Loss Occurs When Calories Are Burned With Aerobic Exercise-NOT by Building Bigger Muscles! The difference between muscle metabolism ( 6 cal/lb) and fat metabolism ( 2 cal /lb) is not as great as one might think. If you replace 10 lb. of fat with 10 lb. of muscle you burn
about 40 calorie more per day. It's hard for most people to build up 10 lb. of muscle.
The exercise industry promotes the idea that working out will help you to lose weight and sculpt your body. Using the right equipment or doing the right exercises, according to them, will take fat off the love handles, thighs, underarms, and other very specific parts of your body.
Men try this by doing crunches to get that thin belly.
Females try to get rid of their muffin tops by all kinds of belly exercises.
The problem is that distribution of fat is for the most part genetically determined and has little to do with how much one exercises or diets. Moreover, building muscle mass is not ineffective in promoting weight loss for the average dieter.
Our genetic structure makes losing specific localized fat deposits very difficult. Doing hundreds of sit-ups to produce those rock-hard abs, toning your arms and legs, or trying to sculpt a better butt only exhausts oneself. It diverts attention from what you really need to do first—burn off the layer of fat that covers these areas.
More calories are burned with activities that use the whole body as opposed to doing exercises involving a few different muscles. Beginning weight lifters using relatively low weights and performing just a few sets burn very little calories. Calories burned doubles or even triples by spending the same amount of effort and time doing an aerobic workout
The claim that weight lifting and toning builds muscle, which speeds up your metabolism needs to be examined carefully. Dymphna Gallagher, the director of the body composition unit at the New York Obesity Research Center in Manhattan says one pound of muscle burns about seven to 15 calories a day, not 50. The average person spending a great deal of time and effort may accumulate enough extra muscle to boost their metabolism by about 14 to 30 calories a day. Not what most trainers tell you. Walking to you car parked in a distant space in a parking lot might add just as many calories.
On of the largest reviews of exercise and weight loss was reported by the American College of Sports Medicine in 2003. It revealed that although weight training could improve muscle strength and power, no evidence was found that it that it increased weight loss, especially when combined with dieting.
Dr William Kramer, from the University of Connecticut, an expert on strength training states: "The effect on metabolism is minor and certainly not the savior of dieters." In fact he suggested that dieting may prevent any significant attempt to boost muscle mass. The body needs more calories than normal to build muscle.
In the end it turns out for the average people who want to lose weight spending time making smarter food choices in the supermarket and doing some aerobic exercise like walking and jogging that burn calories is the best bet.
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