Growing and gaining muscles
What is muscle mass?
To manage your muscle mass and body fat percentage
you first have to understand your measurements.
Often people mistake building muscle mass with burning body fat. These two often go hand in hand, but they
Growing and gaining muscles
What is muscle mass?
To manage your muscle mass and body fat percentage
you first have to understand your measurements.
Often people mistake building muscle mass with burning body fat. These two often go hand in hand, but they are not the same. Muscle mass includes the weight of all the muscles in your body: skeletal muscles, smooth muscles such as cardiac and digestive muscles and the water contained in these muscles. Muscles act as an engine in consuming energy.
While the body fat percentage measures the amount of fat your body holds. Burning body fat can be a result of the accumulated muscles. Muscles are like engines when it comes to consuming energy. Our muscle mass plays a crucial role when it comes to fitness. When your body builds muscles, it burns energy and fat all the time. As your muscle mass increases, the faster your body is able to burn calories/energy.
This leads to an increase of your basal metabolic rate (BMR),
which helps in losing weight. Muscle mass includes smooth muscles, skeletal muscles and water contained in the muscles. Where the skeletal muscles are the most visible when there is no fat layer. Muscles consist of water and protein. This is why it’s important to include protein in your a