Interesting read on burning fat

[jb160]

the actual activity of weightlifting only burns a moderate number of calories. But nothing puts lean muscle tissue on your body better than weightlifting; and nothing burns fat better than lean muscle. In fact, every pound of muscle burns 50 to 60 calories per day, 24/7. Therefore, over the course of a year, 10 pounds of new muscle will burn off at least 50 to 60 pounds of fat

 

[JohnnyB]

Nice

JohnnyB

 

[Drveejay11]

 

[WI]

Damn.......thats breaks it down nicely, good post jb160!

 

[califlorida91604]

Yes!!!!! Let's see that again.... (in a Marv Albert voice)

 

[Ifrit]

No offense meant but I thought everyone knew this. Cardio burns calories and temporarily increases metabolism, while weight training may burn less calories the muscle you build will help you burn more calories 24/7 but to get the cardiovascular training and muscle building effects I train all of my clients starting out with circuit training or HST. That's another reason I love this board, I can talk about shit like this to people who care, most of my clients want to just know how to "Tone",lol.

 

[JohnnyB]

Most of us do, but for the ones that don't this is a nice break down

JohnnyB

 

[Ifrit]

Agreed.

 

[Ifrit]

On a side note to what he said, when one is trying to shed fat you should not go at a slow pace at 70% of your max heart rate simply because you use fat for fuel at this rate, the main factor when determining fat loss is caloried burned so let's not see anyone going at a snailspace. If you can read a newspaper while doing cardio you are not working hard enough. Just trying to talk about something today guys, I'm bored,lol. Simplicity and consistency is what brings results in this game.

 

[Trevdog]

Well on the question of how many calories do you burn when lifting, I suppose its all in how you define "moderate", because it burns a lot more calories in an hour than watching TV.

I thought the extra calories per lb. was 35-50. Either way, its compelling.

 

[StoneColdNTO]

Therefore, over the course of a year, 10 pounds of new muscle will burn off at least 50 to 60 pounds of fat

True............, but the article forgot to mention that you are still adding fat throughout the year as well, so the net result will not be a 40-50 lb reduction in weight.

 

[liftsiron]

While it is true that you generally burn more caloires in an hour of intense aerobics than in an hour long weight workout. The more aerobically fit that an individual is the faster his/her matab returns to baseline/normal. In studies done at the U of FL then duplicated at U of MN and elsewhere, show that an intense hour of leg work by a weight training individual will increase the matabolism for as much as 24 hours.


The studies involved subjects wearing mask that measured O2 consumption over a 24 hour peroid we know that a liter of O2 burns X cals. O2 consumption was dramatically elevated in the aerobics group during the time that, they were exercising and for a short time there after. On the other hand the weight lifting group did not consume as much O2 on averege as the aerobic group there O2 comsumption remained elevated for the entire 24 hours post exercise.

When measurements were concluded by researchers there determination was that one hour of intense lifting with the legs burned as much stored bodyfat as five one hour aerobic sessions,
because of the increased metabolic rate over a long peroid of time.

As well as the increase of muscle mass which in turns increases bmr, weight also burns a lot of stored bodyfat as explained above.

 

[Trevdog]

Thanks for that great post liftsiron. I can use a little more motivation for leg day.

 

[Chestnut]

Now if you can get all the fat Fs to weighttrain & eat right we will be a healther nation...

 

[WI]

When measurements were concluded by researchers there determination was that one hour of intense lifting with the legs burned as much stored bodyfat as five one hour aerobic sessions,
because of the increased metabolic rate over a long peroid of time.

As well as the increase of muscle mass which in turns increases bmr, weight also burns a lot of stored bodyfat as explained above.

Even more of a reason for squats!

 

[bluetab]

Who really cares about the details on how much calories one burns when training. The most important aspect of bodybuilding or building plain o'l muscle is simply diet. If you eat too much of anything such as carbo (especially complex starchy carbo on a given amount of time) and train theoritically like stated. You'll still get fat and have to work harder to gain the muscle theoretically calculated in the first post of this thread.
So bottom line, eat right and train right and don't let little theories secure the way you approach building muscle the good o'l way (DIET) there's just no way around that.
Theory's are just what they are theories.