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Found my old post! Reblogging again because I got a few questions in my ask about this. I know the wording could have been better. I guess it’s easier to understand when you realize it’s not saying that 1lb of fat gets replaced with 1lb of muscle. It just gets replaced with muscle. No numerical value as the coefficient.

thinkmuscularfithealthy:

I’f you’re replaceing muscle with fat exactly won’t you stay the same?? and muscle weights more than fat, you might lose 1/2 a pound of body fat but weight all together? kind of doubt it

No. You’re not replacing 1lb of fat with 1lb of muscle. It doesn’t work that way. It’s easier to lose 1lb of fat than it is to build 1lb of muscle. You would lose several pounds of fat for every pound of muscle that you build. A good example of this comes from research published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. For the study, researchers from the United States Sports Academy tracked a group of previously sedentary men (i.e. overweight beginners) who performed both endurance and resistance exercise three days per week for 14 weeks. On average, the men lost 16.3 pounds of fat and gained 9.5 pounds of muscle. In other words, they gained a significant amount of muscle while also losing a large amount of fat. When you do the math and calculate the variance there is a ~0.42lb difference for each of the 16lbs of body fat. So for every pound of body fat that was lost, only 0.59lbs of muscle was gained.

I didn’t make up the quote/statistic. Found it in a pretty interesting article about metabolism. And now I found a study to pretty much back it up. The numbers aren’t exact, but close enough. I’m sure it doesn’t hold true in every single case. It’s possible to increase/decrease the ratios. It all depends on how you train and your diet.

I hope this clears up an misunderstandings. :)