Researchers from the United States Sports Academy carried out an experimental training session with overweight people. They were made to perform endurance and resistance exercise three times every week. After 14 weeks, the participants lost 16.3 pounds of fat but gained 9.5 pounds in their muscles.
It implies that weight loss can lead to accumulation of fat in the muscles. Other results of their study were published in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. This article tries to understand couple of things in keep in mind when we burn fat build muscle.
Tips to Remember to Burn Fat Build Muscle:
- Initially when we start exercising the results are generally fast coming.
- But with the passage of time, the improvements seen are less drastic.
- Muscle too take more time to get adopted to new exercising style and respond with passage of time.
- This development is owing to an unique limit in every individual called the ceiling of adaptation.
- Regular exercise pushes every individual closer to this upper limit of the body.
- As a body inches towards this limit, the response of the muscles to new developments decreases.
- Moreover it is easy to exercise to build muscles after taking a vreak from physical activity.
- It is found that muscles building becomes easier while they are retained after a gap rather than building them for the first time. Such developments are rightly termed as muscle memory phenomenon.
Conclusion: Many trainers believe that it is in the interest of the people to focus on one objective at a time. Somehow building muscles and burning fat do not go simultaneously. Either the focus of exercise should be building muscle while keeping the fat gain to bare minimum or lose fat while being successful in preserving muscle. With the right knowledge about the above mentioned bodily responses to exercise, we can burn fat build muscle safely.
