Which weighs more - muscle or fat?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

muscle.

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

Muscle is heavily striated, if skeletal, dense if smooth and super dense if cardiac. Much denser than fat and much heavier to.

Answer 6

the fat is when you eat stuff its body wight muscle is when you work out a lot and you muscles get very big

Answer 7

Muscle weights more ...

Answer 8

Muscle is more dense

Answer 9

Muscle