Muscle Not Fat
It’s a common scenario that happens to many individuals trying to gain muscle mass. Despite all their well-meaning efforts, in addition to the muscle they have successfully gained, they have also successfully gained a bit of a spare tire. It is not about a fat loss program. Fat gain is definitely a consequence of trying to put on muscle mass because you are, after all, eating more calories than the body needs.
While you do require additional calories to build muscle, you can only assimilate so much muscle at one single time. Anything additional after that is going to end up, most likely, in the place you want it the least – usually around the waist for men and in the hips and thighs for women. It is possible to gain lean muscle and lose fat though.
If you’ve spent any time at all researching on the topic of weight lifting, you’ll likely know that weight lifting in itself, accompanied by sufficient rest is an anabolic process. This basically means that after it’s performed, the body is going to work at developing more muscle tissue rather than breaking it down.
Endurance cardiovascular exercise, on the other hand, is catabolic in nature – that is, the body will break tissues down. Since weight lifting is anabolic then, you want to do whatever you can to maximize all the cellular processes that are occurring, enhance recovery ability (so you can get back into the gym sooner, thus spending more time in an anabolic state), and improve nutrient partitioning.
Take a look at this information and see what you can do with it on your journey to a better more fit body.
