It’s only in recent days that nutritionists have come to realize that weight loss can be accelerated through muscle gain. This might look odd but a keen look at it reveals how important muscle gain is to the process of weight loss.
Actually, muscles need more nutrients to remain in perfect shape and therefore people with big muscles burn more fat hence losing more weight compared to those with no muscles.
However, there is a problem with this because, acquiring more muscles needs more nutrients while losing weight needs fewer calories compared to those needed for maintaining the muscles.
For one to gain muscles while losing weight at the same time, it’s important that they consume a standardized level of calories but of course using a set formula. This may involve low fat diets, more proteins, with carbohydrates well selected to ensure the body is able to break them down as this will limit sugar flow into the blood hence preventing any form of sugar storage as fat.
Some of the foods that one may opt for include, brown rice, non-starchy vegetables, eggs, and variety of meats and this will give you a good diet to help you lose weight and gain muscles as well.
Weight lifting should be done with heavy weights and one should aim to increase the weight with every workout. One should ensure they work out 3 times per week until the muscles adapt to these workouts.
Each workout should be limited to less than 45 minutes because beyond this time, your body might not cope with the workout intensity. If after 45 minutes, you still feel you can do more, it might be an indication that your sessions are below the required standards and therefore you might not gain the required results. After a workout lasting 45 minutes, you should not have the strength to do more as the body is supposed to be extremely tired.
Initially, you may realize that you have added some weight but this shouldn’t bother you because muscles are heavier than fat and therefore the exchange of losing fat to gaining muscles might result to this weight increase. Nevertheless, you will realize that your fat levels will go down in the long run and your body will start gaining more muscles. If you follow the above procedure, you will realize that losing weight to gain muscles is not as difficult as many people will want you to believe.
