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.
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.
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.
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.
This type of eating plan has shown promise in animal studies; mice who are fed time - restricted diets tend to lose more body
fat and have lower risk of chronic diseases
than those whose meals are more
spaced out.
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.
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.
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!
Within the
space of three hours, I eat 106 grams of carbs, which is more
than two - thirds of my entire day's intake (for people who aren't familiar with nutritional info, that might not sound like a lot, but consider this: I'm eating two serves of oatmeal and a serve of rice plus all the other proteins and
fats I need).
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.
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.
Now John Kiefer actually recommends that if you consider doing more
than one Carb Nite per week, to
space them out at least 4 days apart so you can maximize your time in ketosis, therefore optimizing the time you're burning
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.
«Squishy»
fat forms because, as
fat cells are extracted and mobilized, the
space where they once existed gets filled with water, making the area feel «softer»
than normal.
Muscle is denser
than fat, and takes up less
space in your body - so as you lose
fat and add muscle, you may not see the number on the scale going down as fast as you expect, even though you are noticing the shape and tone of your body changing.
These testicles are much smaller and softer
than the descended ones and are extremely difficult to locate in the
fat that occupies the posterior abdominal (retroperitoneal)
space.
Valentines Day has snuck up on us like a
fat man sneaking up on the all you can eat buffet in Pizza Hut, and what better way to celebrate the day
than winning yourself a weapon pack for Dead
Space 3 and dismembering some Necromorphs?
Though the One doesn't really take up much more
space than the original Echo — the Sonos is
fatter but shorter — sound is in another league.
AVADirect's decision to go with a slower,
fatter drive is part of why this system is less expensive
than rivals, and ensures users won't run out of
space any time soon.