Lose Weight & Gain Muscle Mass

If you have high amount of muscle mass in your body you would burn higher amount of calories. Aerobic exercise is one of the best ways to work out and lose weight. You need to undertake aerobics exercise for 45-60 minutes a day if you want fast and quick weight loss in a healthy manner.

You would have high weight loss and even stay slimmer for longer. The problem here is that aerobics do not increase the muscle mass in your body; and muscles burn maximum number of calories. Here come in the importance of anaerobic workout, which helps you get higher amount of muscle mass.

Muscles have an extremely high ability when it comes to burning fat deposits. A pound of muscle tends to burn close to 50 calories. Hence more muscles would mean more calories burnt. Your muscles’ energy requirement is very high, and this keeps you healthy.

Once you have developed muscles your system would do what is important to get high amount of energy. If you do not work out regularly and do not have developed muscles, you would get fat deposits in your body which look very ugly.

Aerobic workout tends to burn high number of calories as compared to anaerobic workout, post workout it becomes the opposite.  Post aerobic calorie burn happens for maximum 60 minutes, after an anaerobic workout, calorie burn goes on till another 48 hours. Both these type of exercises help you lose weight, anaerobic burns more fat deposited in your body and raises the amount of muscle mass.

Your muscles need time to be repaired else they might get injured; this proves that anaerobic workouts help you burn high amount of fat. As your muscles would try and re-build them and become bigger and toned, they need high amount of energy. Hence your body burn more fat post an anaerobic workout.

You should never keep yourself away from food if your aim is burning fat; as your body requires nourishment if you want it to function in the right manner. Nutritious meal would help you lose weight and get a nice toned body. If you keep your body starved your system would use the protein in your body as energy.