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A Big Fat Fitness Lie About Burning Fat
By admin | February 15, 2010
One of the greatest fitness lies is that in order to build quality lean mass, you need to spend hours a week slaving away on machines in the gym. This philosophy couldn’t be farther from the truth. In fact, the less time you spend pounding iron, the more you will burn fat and get lean.
Muscle growth doesn’t occur while you workout; it occurs during rest. Your body needs adequate time to recover in order to rebuild muscle. During your full body dumbbell workouts, you put heavy amounts of stress on all of your muscle groups, tearing down muscle fibers and depleting energy stores. During rest, your body over compensates this loss by creating more muscles fibers.
Stress on the muscles during a workout cause tiny tears in the muscles fibers. Upon rest, your body repairs muscles by regrowing the torn fiber, and growing new muscle on top of the regrowth. This process is called hypertrophy.
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