Running...help or hinder weight loss??

dad106

Running helps weight loss. Running will not build muscle.

That's absurd. If you're WORKING muscles, you're BUILDING muscles. Will running make you look like a body builder? No. But it certainly does build the muscles that it works... just not in the same way the lifting weights will. It creates toned, lean, strong muscles. If it didn't build muscle, you could never become a stronger, faster runner... you would always be stuck at the same fitness level with which you were born.

I'm not sure why some people seem to equate "building muscle" with "bulking up".

As stated before, Building muscle and gaining strength are two different things.

Building muscle(AKA new tissue) comes from eating at a surplus and lifting. If you are eating in a deficit, do you think your body is going to go Ok, let me take what calories I have and use it to build new muscle tissue since muscles were worked today? No. It's going to take what calories it has and use those for sustaining life first.. and then worry about muscles and what not second.

Strength gains comes from overloading the muscle, having it adapt and then overloading it again, having it adapt... etc.

You can gain strength and not build muscle... and just because you are seeing muscle show, does not mean that you built muscle either.

I''m not sure why some people equate "strength gains" with "building muscle".

marijasmin

Sorry duplicate post

RGv2

I wouldnt say that my thighs and calves have never changed size since i hit my full height or near to just exchanged fat for muscle and kept the same circumfrence and I used to gain 10 lbs muscle weight every yr from the beginning of august to the end of december doing marching band now im running and the same is happening again but then again my muscle structure is a little odd compared to most ppl its for some with a frame a few inches taller compacted down to about 5'1

It's virtually impossible to gain 10 lbs of muscle in 5 mos.

marching band 2 weeks of 6 hr out door practices 3 days a wk out door practices after school for 2 hrs or more 4 days if there was a parade or competition that weekend and we ran the show during class too the up and down of the games which literally ran thru december mile or longer parades plus whatever we were doing in gym and me never managing to get more than one class in a building ever during high school

Yep.

marijasmin

Strength is partly about nervous stimulation and muscle linkage resistance.
http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/MED/3055145

Neural adaptations to resistive exercise: mechanisms and recommendations for training practices.

Thus one can increase strength without increasing muscle size, by using explosive overload techniques in the first instance and pyramid sets in the longer term. Thus increasing the maximum amount of fibres activated, improving calcium flow in the contraction process, reducing inhibition factors, building the actin and myosin interaction.

Jasmin

shabaity

I wouldnt say that my thighs and calves have never changed size since i hit my full height or near to just exchanged fat for muscle and kept the same circumfrence and I used to gain 10 lbs muscle weight every yr from the beginning of august to the end of december doing marching band now im running and the same is happening again but then again my muscle structure is a little odd compared to most ppl its for some with a frame a few inches taller compacted down to about 5'1

It's virtually impossible to gain 10 lbs of muscle in 5 mos.

marching band 2 weeks of 6 hr out door practices 3 days a wk out door practices after school for 2 hrs or more 4 days if there was a parade or competition that weekend and we ran the show during class too the up and down of the games which literally ran thru december mile or longer parades plus whatever we were doing in gym and me never managing to get more than one class in a building ever during high school

Yep.

i was also capable of out leg pressing a couple members of our varisity team at that time and i dont really count gym class as strength training since i only ever went 18 times a yr and barely did anything cause of how big the class was so yes with said schedule and proper eating habits i did gain 10lbs in muscle weight in 5 months every yr

RGv2

I wouldnt say that my thighs and calves have never changed size since i hit my full height or near to just exchanged fat for muscle and kept the same circumfrence and I used to gain 10 lbs muscle weight every yr from the beginning of august to the end of december doing marching band now im running and the same is happening again but then again my muscle structure is a little odd compared to most ppl its for some with a frame a few inches taller compacted down to about 5'1

It's virtually impossible to gain 10 lbs of muscle in 5 mos.

marching band 2 weeks of 6 hr out door practices 3 days a wk out door practices after school for 2 hrs or more 4 days if there was a parade or competition that weekend and we ran the show during class too the up and down of the games which literally ran thru december mile or longer parades plus whatever we were doing in gym and me never managing to get more than one class in a building ever during high school

Yep.

i was also capable of out leg pressing a couple members of our varisity team at that time and i dont really count gym class as strength training since i only ever went 18 times a yr and barely did anything cause of how big the class was so yes with said schedule and proper eating habits i did gain 10lbs in muscle weight in 5 months every yr