Your Ticket to Fat Burn: Lean Muscle

Why is losing lean muscle bad? Because lean muscle burns fat. That’s right, lean muscle controls your resting metabolism, affecting how many calories you burn when you perform sedentary activities, such as resting on the couch, driving your car, sitting at the computer, even when sleeping in your bed.

In fact, each pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day just doing nothing. Lose just five pounds of muscle and your metabolism burns 250 calories less a day; in the course of just one year, that will equal 26 pounds of new fat. So to maximize your calorie-burn, add more lean muscle tissue to your body. Doing just three sessions of moderate strength-training a week can help build at least one additional pound of lean muscle tissue.

So what are you waiting for? Get to building your body with more lean muscle and keep the fire in your body burning hot.