Sentences with phrase «space than muscle»

So it's not surprising if your body fat increases as a result, and as we've learned by now, fat takes up more space than muscle.

Not exact matches

Since muscle weighs significantly more than fat while taking up less space, the end result is that you may stay about the same weight while getting much smaller.

The space between his pectoral muscles was convex rather than concave, and friends called it his «third boob.»

And, later on, your breathing will be more difficult when your own enlarging uterus gets more space than normal, thereby leading to pressure against the muscle below the lungs — the diaphragm.

Post-dieters may also look heavier even at their pre-diet weights, as fat is less compact than muscle, meaning 5 kg of body fat consumes more space than 5 kg of muscle.

According to many studies performing exercises with free torso movement in space recruits more muscle fibers with greater intensity, than the exercises where you keep your torso static.

As you trade body fat for lean muscle, that muscle leaves you looking smaller and firmer, because that muscle takes up less space than the fat you're blasting away.

What's tricky with a weight training program is that you are putting on beautiful muscle, but your weight may not change much because muscle is more dense than fat - meaning it takes of less space for the same amount of weight.

That's because muscle is denser than fat, so it takes up much less volume: a pound of fat takes up 4 times the space of muscle tissue!

Immediate Testosterone Response: «Muscle takes up less space than fat, making you smaller and allowing your clothes to fit better» Start working out.

The most effective way for women too tighten and tone is WEIGHTS... lifting weights 3 x week — muscle burns FAT and muscle takes up less space than FAT — and when ur lifting — for the next 48 hrs (onbetween weight training / your body is still burning calories — unlike cardio (which u are only burning while ur doing it) so much has been proven that indeed weights will shrink ur frame yet you will look leaner — so throw away the scales and buy tape measure — and every two weeks measure yourself (first thing in morning) you want compound moves, and minimal rest onbetween sets — any reputable PT should be able too write you up a good programme on this which u can easily do on ur own at local gym.

Also, with all of your challenging workouts you are likely building muscle and lean mass as well as losing fat so if you increase your lean muscle mass by 1 lb and lose 1 lb of fat the scale wont change but your physique will (muscle is approx 15 % denser than fat so 1 lb of fat takes up much more space than 1 lb of lean muscle).

A pound of fat is the same as a pound of muscle with respect to weight, BUT, the 1 pound of muscle will take up much less space than the 1 pound of fat.

Also, since your body is moving through space rather than the weight moving, you actually fire more muscle fibers.

If your abdominal muscles are split in the middle (diastasis recti) or you're * just * wider in the waist than in the hips, it's worth having a look at how you carry your pelvis and rib cage through space.

Where the confusion comes in is that muscle and fat differ in density (muscle is about 18 % more dense than fat) and one pound of muscle occupies less space (volume) than one pound of fat.

By looking at the photo below, you can see that five pounds of muscle (pictured on right) is going to take up less space in the body and be a lot less «lumpy» under your skin and in between your organs than the same weight in fat (shown on left).

This means one pound of muscle takes less space than the same one pound of fat.

Put simply, a pound of fat takes up more space in the body than a pound of muscle.

I also know muscle weighs more than fat and muslcle is also more dense than fat so it takes up less space, I know all this but I still get on the scale every morning.

They reported that the bench press performed with a wide grip and a decline bench angle produced significantly greater latissimus dorsi muscle activity than the horizontal and incline variations performed with narrow and wide hand spacing.

They found that a narrow hand spacing produced superior triceps muscle activity than both middle and wide hand spacing.

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With wide spacing, the anterior deltoid muscle was greater than decline and flat bench press.

You had a 251 lb ft midrange with which to muscle the car along winding A-roads and if you find enough space on a runway or autobahn, it'll hit 156mph — a solitary mile per hour faster than most German super-saloons will reach.