This is a common myth. The easiest way to understand this is to look at it this way...
5 lbs. of fat is much bulkier than the 5 lbs. of muscle, but five pounds is still five pounds. Muscle does not weigh more than fat.
Fat is bulky and lumpy so if you carry an extra five pounds of fat, you'll be lumpier than with five pounds more muscle. A five pound pile of fat will take up more space (volume) than a five pound pile of muscle; but five pounds is still five pounds.
A woman weighing 150 pounds with 19% fat will look much smaller (and be much healthier) than a woman at 150 pounds with 35% fat. They weigh the same, yet the composition is different. Because muscle is more dense than fat the person with less fat and more muscle will look smaller.
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A person who begins an exercise/ weight training program can weigh the same the same but appear much healthier and have a better physical appearance after losing fat and gaining muscle.
Muscle weighs more than fat. If you are on a diet and working out, yet the scales show you as not losing weight, or maybe even gaining, this is a good thing. It means your body is shedding the fat and building more muscle tissue. And, since muscle burns more calories than fat does, this will help you go even further in reaching your desired body size.
Muscle is not technically heavier, but it is more dense than fat.
So five pounds of muscle will be much smaller looking than five pounds of fat.
Muscle is heavily striated, if skeletal, dense if smooth and super dense if cardiac. Much denser than fat and much heavier to.
the fat is when you eat stuff its body wight muscle is when you work out a lot and you muscles get very big
Muscle weights more ...
Muscle is more dense
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no. it's the other way around. muscle is heavier than fat. muscle weighs approximately 17.7% more than fat.
No! A pound is a pound. 5 pounds of fat and five pounds of muscle weigh the same -- 5 pounds! However, muscle is much more dense and compact than fat, so it takes up a lot less space and you look a heck of a lot better when your percentage of lean body mass is higher than your percentage of fat.ANSWER!Fat actually weighs less than muscle per Cubic inch because muscle is so much denser. That is one of the reasons why BMI numbers can't be trusted. And we arent talking about 5 pounds of fat vs 5 pounds of muscle, were talking about the weight of n amount of muscle vs n amount of fat. Muscle would be much heavier.
Muscle weighs more than fat, muscle burns fat while you sleep, muscle helps to have healthy circulation, fat clogs the arteries!
The brain is mostly muscle muscle weighs more than fat,
muscle weighs more than fat. your weight may not change because you are gaining muscle mass, which weighs more.
"...One liter of muscle would weight 1.06 kg (1060 grams) and one liter of fat would weight 0.9 kg (900 grams). In other words, muscle is about 18% denser than fat. ..." Interestingly, 1 litre of water weighs 1 kg. So muscle weighs more than water.
weight lifting. remember muscle weighs more than fat.
Yes, they do because muscle weighs more than fat.
yes, it is scientifically proven that the butt due to the muscle and combined fat that it weighs more than boobs. Boobs are just fat as the butt is more muscle with added fat.
sometimes because you can be loseing fat and gaining muscle and muscle weighs 3 times more than fat.
Not necessarily. Your body can just contain a good percentage of muscle since muscle weighs more than fat.
Yes. Muscle weighs more than fat!:D