Here's what the majority tends to miss out though, after the heavy weights training muscle activation takes place and the next 2 - 4 days muscles at
rest burn extra calories.
Not exact matches
Just half a teaspoon can increase metabolic rate, causing your body to
burn an
extra 10
calories at
rest.
Studies show that downing 6 cups of cold water a day can raise your
resting metabolism,
burn extra calories and lead to a possible weight loss of 5 pounds a year!
Since there are 3,500
calories in one pound of fat, this means that your increased metabolism would allow you to
burn an
extra 25
calories / day x 30 days / month x 1 pound of fat / 3500
calories =.214 pounds of fat per month while you are at
rest.
Sixteen pounds of muscle will
burn an
extra 100
calories per day at
rest.
You need that
extra muscle to prime your metabolism and
burn more
calories with exercise and at
rest.
It will help you change your body composition from carrying
extra fat to carrying lean muscle, which
burns more
calories at
rest and will start to carve out those lean lines so many people want to see in their bodies.
With every pound of muscle you build, you will
burn an additional 35 - 50
calories a day, even at a
resting rate, and that adds up: if you gain 4.5 lbs of muscle, that's an
extra 150
calories burned a day, which is 4,500
extra calories burned each month, and THAT adds up to losing about 15 lbs a year.
Your
resting metabolic rate (RMR) is your BMR plus the number of
calories you
burn digesting food, the number of
extra calories you
burn after exercise, and other small bodily functions.
Even if you don't need the
extra protein to help maintain muscle mass while you're eating at maintenance, it can help you
burn around 80 — 100
calories more per day, which, in some cases, is enough to help offset the drop in
resting metabolic rate caused by dieting.
Resistance training is what you need to really boost the
resting metabolic rate and become more efficient at
burning extra calories as well.
It's a common myth that just one
extra pound of lean mass / muscles will help you
burn 30 - 50
calories per day at
rest.
The
extra calories burned in addition to those required for physical activity are collectively known as your
Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR), and they represent the
calories that your body would have
burned anyway, even if you had just been relaxing on the couch and not performing any physical activity.
This not only strengthens the function of the heart and its ability to deliver oxygen from the lungs to the
rest of the body, but it
burns extra calories you wouldn't normally
burn if you were at
rest.
The additional muscle will pay dividends by increasing your
resting metabolic rate so that you're
burning extra calories at all times of the day.