you may have heard along your weight loss journey from fitness experts, is that the absolute best way to stimulate your metabolism and losing weight at the same time is to start workout out or more specifically to weight train to develop more muscle. These fitness professionals will often tell you that the more muscle you can build, the faster you will lose weight because muscles use up lots of calories. Now the question is, are these claims true and is there any kind of research that proves the claims of all the fitness experts that lean muscle is the ultimate fat burner? 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 most men, it can take roughly one month while for women, it can take as much as twice as long or 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 plan to participate in bodybuilding for an increase of fat burning muscle, there are many quality methods that have been developed to do it properly. In the end, it doesn’t matter too much which bodybuilding plan you choose as there are always certain vital actions that need to happen if you want to increase the growth of your muscles and also reduce any pain that is very common when tearing your muscles heavily. 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. It’s the lactic acid that causes any pain in the muscles after intense workouts. Stretching properly helps to reduce the severity of the day after pain many people feel from doing an intense workout by dispersing lactic acid that builds up in your muscles. It is a wise idea to not engage yourself in weight training every single day. At most, you should have a one day on and one day off strategy in place so you can allow yourself the 48 recovery period. 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 were to add say, one pound of new muscle, you would end up burning roughly an extra 1500 calories each month and that’s without doing any additional dieting or exercise. 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.

By: Robert Kokoska

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