More Muscle Helps To Burn Fat
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009You may well be aware that exercise increases your resting metabolic rate, and after you finish your exercise routine, your RMR stays at an elevated rate for several hours. If you participate in strength training, you can get even more of a metabolic boost because the muscle you’re developing is calorie burning and therefore metabolically active tissue. Even better is that having more muscle tissue cranks your metabolic rate even further. Exercise helps to preserve muscle. If, for example, you lose 10 pounds of body weight, you may well be lighter, but if five of these lost pounds are muscle, you won’t be stronger and you can rest assured that your performance will suffer.