The present studies show the burning of an extra 60 calories per day for the development of every last pound of a young muscle. When you tend to build up five pounds of young muscles, you’re about to burn 30 pounds of fat per year.
When you gain muscle, your resting metabolic rate (the number of calories your body burns off at rest) does go up. But, this increase is a lot less than the 50-100 calorie estimate.
In studies that have tracked alterations in muscle mass and metabolic process, it might seem that the metabolic rate of muscle is someplace in the region of 50-100 calories per pound.
Few similarly handled men who were taken for a survey, were reported with an increase in the metabolic rate around 263 calories per day. They also developed a fat free mass of 2.8 pounds in the first one week.
From week 8 to week 18, the adult males gained another 1.8 pounds of fat-free mass. This shows that muscle have such a big impact on metabolism.
Dividing the increase in resting metabolic rate (60 calories) by the step-up in fat-free mass (2.9 pounds) gives us an estimate of 20.7 calories per pound.
The increase in the resting metabolism happened because of the extra growth of the muscles. But it may also be due to measurement error. Though the adult males under the study didn’t go in for exercise, they multiplied the metabolic rate by 31 calories.
It’s also said that the reason for this gain in the metabolic rates is not only the result of developing a fat free mass, but also the other mechanisms such as the activities of the sympathetic nervous system may be the reason.
We know that the abdomen fat is not a dead tissue since they produce leptin and cytokines. These secretions can affect your body’s metabolic process. There have been some estimates such as the metabolic rate of the fat is around 2 calories per day.
First Of All, with a properly designed belly fat loss program you’ll burn down more calories and more fat in the hours after exercise. Although the light-weight, high-repetition “toning” workouts most people do have only a minor impact on post-exercise metabolism.
Second, you must make sure that you drop off weight from the fats and not from the muscles, while doing resistance exercises along with dieting.
