Subject: RE: Loose muscle to drop body weight The human body is an amazing maching developed over millions of years to survive. Inorder to survive we need to be able to store calories durring times of plenty and conserve durring times of famine. To that end the body wants to minimize the amount of muscle that it has to support. Muscle is chloricaly far more costly than fat. Because of that the body will only conserve muscle that it is actively useing. When you loose weight, especially if your doing it quickly the first thing your body wants to do is start breaking down muscle. The more it can get rid of the longer it can make the fat last. If your driving a V8 and you need to make that tank of gas last as long as possible, start blocking off cylinders! The only way to hang on to muscle durring weightloss is to convince the body that that muscle is necicary by using it to its maximum capibility on a consistant basis. So the short is that if you just loose weight without worrying about what kind of weight your body will automaticaly scale back the amount of muscle you carry around to only that that is necicary to maintain the activities you do on a regular basis. Exactly to what extent muscle retention occurs durring weight loss is one of the great debates. Can you loose weight without loosing any muscle? Many say no. Can you actually gain muscle while loosing weight? Many say yes. Where is the truth? Who knows its probably different for different people and BF measurement isnt all that exact in the most common forms of measurement. Edited by 2453V 2012-03-16 3:22 PM
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