Measure your body composition parameters as well as your body fat percentage and
lean muscle tissue percentage.
Not exact matches
Our results indicate that the
percentage of macrophages in the adipose
tissue that surrounds and infiltrates the extensor digitalis longus
muscle is increased in obese mice compared with
lean mice.
Adipose
tissue within
muscle contained significant numbers of F4 / 80 + macrophages, and the
percentage of F4 / 80 + cells within this adipose
tissue was markedly increased in obese mice compared with
lean mice (41 % ± 4 % of macrophages vs. 12 % ± 2 % of macrophages, respectively; P < 0.005, mean ± SD)(Figure 4).
If you're pretty
lean and have a low
percentage of body fat, but still can not achieve a decent level of vascularity, you're probably holding a lot water in the space between the
muscle tissue and the surface of the skin (similar to the storage of fat).
A person with a higher
percentage of
lean muscle tissue will burn more calories at rest than a person with a lower
percentage.
Female bodies contain a very small
percentage of the testosterone needed to build up
lean muscle tissue, so even with the supplementation of protein into your diet, you are not going to pack on
muscle mass the same way that active men do.
If a larger
percentage of your body mass is
muscle and other
lean tissue, then you'll burn even more calories.
This is due partly to the fact that women have a smaller
percentage of
lean tissue (
muscle, organs, etc.) and a much higher
percentage of body fat.