During periods of low caloric intake your body will certainly burn fat as fuel, however you will also
burn lean muscle tissue.
Instead of burning fat stores, the body begins to
burn lean muscle tissue.
Not exact matches
You should also add cardio into your training regimen to
burn off some extra calories next to lifting weights in order to increase
lean muscle tissue.
A person with a higher percentage of
lean muscle tissue will
burn more calories at rest than a person with a lower percentage.
HGH induces the processes of
burning fat, building
lean muscle mass as well as repairing
tissues and collagen for healthier skin, denser bones and better immunity.
This is because when resting, fat will
burn fewer calories than
lean muscle tissue.
In addition, exercise makes weight loss easier because you'll
burn calories during your workout, your metabolic rate will be increased for some time afterwards, and you'll build
lean muscle tissue, which is more metabolically active than fat — meaning that you
burn more calories even when you're at rest.
While the body
burns fat with the increase in human growth hormone it leaves behind
lean muscle, and the added HGH stimulates the growth of the cells that form
tissues and
muscles.
Note: The
Burn the Fat, Feed The
Muscle program not only has an entire chapter dedicated to helping you calculate your exact calorie needs, it was designed very specifically to keep a fairly conservative approach to caloric deficits and to maximize the amount of
lean tissue you retain and minimize the amount of metabolic adaptation that occurs when you're dieting.
If a larger percentage of your body mass is
muscle and other
lean tissue, then you'll
burn even more calories.
Your body will react by slowing your metabolism and
burning up
lean tissue (like your
muscle mass).
In reality, building
muscle means increasing the amount of
lean tissue — which is associated with longevity, being fit, and being a fat -
burning machine.
We active folks take those calories,
burn them for energy, partition them into
lean muscle tissue and we enjoy a faster metabolism and extremely high quality of life.
You'll end up kicking yourself out of a fasted state, thus starting to
burn glucose, thus triggering gluconeogenesis of your
muscle tissue, thus actually losing
lean muscle mass.
If your body does not have enough fuel it will go into starvation mode, once it has
burnt the fat reserves it will then start to use
lean tissue and
muscle this is what is know as starvation mode and is not something you want your body to do so make sure you eat a healthy balanced diet.
This, in turn, can reduce the number of calories that you
burn during a particular training session, which can therefore limit
muscle gain or even cause loss of
lean tissue.
In fact, ingesting fat can help switch your metabolism to
burn fat as fuel, while helping preserve
lean muscle tissue.
Even if you carry a large quantity of adipose
tissue (fat) on your body, your body still
burns lean muscle in times of caloric restriction.