Building Muscle & Loosing Weight

In response to those who just don't understand this concept.

Whether your ideas is to get super huge, tone and fit or loose weight, it really doesn't matter.

If your body is going to get huge, well you can't really help that.
If your body is going to get really strong, but not huge, you really can't help that either.

Those are principles which we like to call, genetics.

Some people are very lucky and born with great genetics others not so much. Some overweight people find that they are really very strong while some find they are really very week. Same goes for thin people too.
(I personally have extremely strong calves, genetics)

As John said, as you gain muscle your body burns more calories from the food you eat.

So if you are 170 lbs, then gain 20 lbs muscle, but stay at 170lbs, you are know more fit and tone then before.

Muscle burns 50 calories per pound. So merely adding 10 lbs of muscle across the whole body would give you an extra 500 calories a day burn that equals your 3500 calorie a week deficit to loose one pound of fat a week.
How many hours would you have to spend on a cardio machine to burn that same amount of calories each week? Then just gain it all back because you don't have the extra 10lbs of muscle to keep it off?

(170lb person 3 mile jog approximate cardio burn 300+/- calories an hour = 1500 calories in 5 days) You ever run 3 miles, it sucks. How long did it take?
(Weight lifting in a moderate intensity fashion with low rest periods in about 90 minutes can accomplish the same 300 calories burn. However the recovery rates are different.)

This is why cardio alone does not work.

Add 20lbs that is an extra 1000 calories a day, adding 2 lbs of muscle to every inch of your body is relatively easy when you compare it to running like 3 miles a DAY for a week.

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Colby Butler