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Does It Sound Like My Heavy Weight Is From Muscle

Does lifting heavy weights burn both fat and gain muscle?

The short answer is yes. However, make sure you take what the bodybuilding guru’s tell you with a grain of salt. Some of them make it sound like you are swapping fat tissue with muscle tissue which isn’t true. Any slow paced activity will burn fat (that’s why you see “fat burn zone” on treadmills) including things like walking. If you workout heavily, your body switches from burning fat to burning carbs. So contrary to popular belief, you are not burning more fat when working out heavily - yes you are burning more calories but remember - calories do not just come from fat!Additionally, as you gain more muscle mass, your body needs more energy to keep up with the added mass. That energy has to come from somewhere and usually if you maintain your calorie intake, more fat is burned and you will loose weight as a result.

Building muscle with light weights.?

Well, with traditional excersises you wouldn't notice any gains after you hit the 80lbs mark. You need to continually push yourself in order to build muscle by progressively lifting more. It sounds like you already know this. I would suggest using the weights to augment natural body weight excercises. For example: put the weights in a backpack that is stable, then do pushups. You essentially being doing a benchpress of a portion of your body weight plus the 80 lbs. The same is true for excercises such as chin-ups, squats, lunges, sit ups, etc. The other thing you could do is to get a stability ball. They are relatively cheap and make standard strength training excercises much harder. For example, a chest press on a stability ball at 40 lbs an arm may feel like 60 pounds an arm. The reasoning behind the stability ball and the compound natural body weight excercises is this: While you may be lifting less weight, you are incorporating more muscle groups. This stimulates faster repair of muscles overall. i.e bench pressing can build bigger biceps even though they aren't a main muscle group being used, the reason being you have activated your bodys ability to build muscle at an accelerated rate. You can think of it like this, if doing a bicep curl stimulates muscle growth at a 3 on a scale of 1-10, Then all of your other muscles will be subject to a portion of that as well. If benchpressing stimulates muscle growth at say a 6, then your biceps are growing at the same rate as they would be, even if you aren't working them.

Hope it helps.

p.s Body builders 50 years ago were only doing three excercises. Squats, deadlifts, and benchpresses. All three can be done with natural body weight. Those guys were huge.

I'm 5'2 and 118.5-120.5 pounds, is that too heavy?

I am a 15 year old girl, 5'2 and in the morning I weigh 118.5-120.5 pounds. I hate the way I look, I think I look very fat, but everytime I try to eat less and exersice more I do not end up loosing weight.
I am a long distance runner and swimmer.
Any advice? My goal weight is 104 pounds.

How long does it take to build muscle?

Im a girl, Im 16, im about 5'4, and i weigh about 130lbs (fat, i know) and i want to grow muscle, to decrease my overall body fat. I go to the gym about everyother day, and i lift weights there, pretty heavy ones too, as i was told that that was how to build proper muscle. Like, for my arms, i set the machine weights at about 50lbs, for my legs 100 and my thighs 50lbs.

I was wondering, about how long will it take me to build proper muscle? I want my body to be real firm and stuff; no more flab. =)

And whats the fastest and most effective way to build muscle?

Thanks very much in advance =)

Will lifting heavy weights increase my body/muscle mass?

I'm 5'7 16 years old and 140 pounds. My goal is to get very strong but I don't want to get big; i just want a small rock hard muscle like Bruce Lee but I realized that the only weigh to get very strong is to lift heavy weights. And I see almost everyone who can lift a lot of weights have big bulk muscles..which I don't want.

I'm 14, 5' 4" and weigh 130 pounds. Is this a healthy weight?

I am a swimmer who practices five times a week for two hour sessions. I haven't really done much differently in the space of two months but have gained weight. I have no clue what to do because I would like to weigh a healthy weight, and I look like I weigh a healthy weight but I have gained ten pounds in two-three months. I don't know what to think about my weight so I was hoping for answers pleas, thank you.

Can you still gain muscle and eat junk food?

You can for sure eat junk and gain muscle. Me and alot of other bodybuilders take a cheat day and eat what ever we want. I've tried sticking to a strict diet 24/7, and after a couple of years i was burnt out from it. I stick to very strict diet 6 days a week, but on that cheat day i chow down. I eat donuts, cake and ice cream, what ever I want and I don't have a layer of fat over my muscles. Just be sure to hit your daily requirement of protein and don't eat sugar within a half hour of your meals. It sounds like you have a high metabolism, so I think your good to go.

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