Burn Excess Fat And Feed The Muscles

     One of the most common things you will hear in fitness circles is that if you build yourself some new lean muscle mass, you will not only speed up your metabolism, but you will also lose weight. The same people might also tell you that having more muscle on your body will burn more calories throughout the day. Can this statement be verified at all? and what evidence is there to suggest that the easiest path to weight loss is to build muscle?

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 your goal is to build extra muscle as an aid for losing weight, the actual process of tearing and repairing the muscle is one of the only ways to get results from working out.

If you are planning to do a little bodybuilding for extra fat burner muscle, there are lots of tried and tested methods to do just that. 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 you push a muscle up to this point, it starts to get little rips from within. 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. Lactic acid is what causes the pain in your muscles after exercise and workouts. Stretching will help to disperse the lactic acid buildup and reduce the dreaded "day after" pains that are usually felt after a good workout.

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 engaging in weight lifting activity for muscle growth, it is important to consume high quality protein because this is what muscles are made up of. So just how much protein will you need to eat if you begin weight training? If you exercise quite heavily, you might need to up your protein intake a little from the RDA's recommendation of 0.8 g/kg to 1.2-1.8 g/kg.

he question now is, how many actual calories will this additional muscle burn off? If you added 1 pound of muscle to your body, you would burn an additional 1500 calories every month, without doing anything extra or without going on any diet. If you were to continue with your workout training and gain say another 10 pounds of lean muscle mass, you would then end up burning a whopping 15,000 extra calories per month which would lead to some serious weight loss.

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