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Home | Health & Fitness | Exercise I am tired of hearing trainers tell their clients that they should focus on putting on more muscle if they want to burn fat quickly. This is a myth that has been popular for years. If this was true, then there would be many more lean people in the free-weight rooms in all of the gyms of the world. Gaining Muscle is a VERY Inefficient Way to Lose Body Fat For each pound of lean muscle that you gain, you will burn an extra 12 calories per day. If you gained 10 pounds of lean muscle mass, you would burn an extra 120 calories throughout the day (note: I'm talking 10 pounds of 'lean' muscle...most people would have to gain 15 pounds to build 10 pounds of fat free muscle). Burn Body Fat 10 Times Quicker With Diet and Cardio A tough cardio workout can easily burn 600 calories. If you reduced you daily intake of calories by 600, then the total calorie deficit would be 1,200 calories...this is 10 times the calorie burning effect that a 10 pound muscle gain had. Gaining Too Much Muscle Creates an Unattractive Body Yeah...I'm completely against the idea of gaining a bunch of muscle...especially for women! The ideal look for a woman is toned with just a hint of muscle...kind of like the women on the cover of Shape Magazine. If you gain too much muscle, you may be asked to model for the cover of Flex Magazine...that is a terrible look! Too much muscle looks cheesy on guys as well...ask any woman. Gaining muscle for the sake of burning body fat is just plain backwards. Get lean quickly by sticking to cardio and lowering your calories! Article Source: http://www.articlewheel.com
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