Muscle weighs more than fat....discuss

mmuzzatti
mmuzzatti Posts: 704 Member
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So, I started this in this forum because most of you will have very smart answers to this age old question. What is the correct statement:

Option A: Muscle weighs more than fat! (1 pound of muscle vs 1 pound of fat)

Option B: Muscle takes up less space than fat. (1 gallon of muscle vs 1 gallon of fat)

Please discuss and feel free to attack me since I can say my own confession!



Pope Pasta Fagioli

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  • LavenderBouquet
    LavenderBouquet Posts: 736 Member
    I don't see the point of this thread. A pound is a pound, muscle is more dense than fat.
  • diodelcibo
    diodelcibo Posts: 2,564 Member
    density... muscle is about 10% more dense.
  • dodihere
    dodihere Posts: 490
    1 pound of muscle is the same weight as 1 pound of fat. 1 pound.
  • Flyntiggr
    Flyntiggr Posts: 898 Member
    a pound is a pound - BY WEIGHT.

    a pound is NOT a pound - BY VOLUME

    instead of comparing muscle and fat, replace with feathers and bricks. A pound of feathers weighs exactly the same as a pound of bricks. BUT, if you measure the same by volume, the feathers will take up WAY more space than the bricks.
  • Snow3y
    Snow3y Posts: 1,412 Member
    muscle weighs the same as fat. 1lbs of muscle same weight as 1lbs of fat.

    1lbs of bricks weighs the same as 1lbs of feathers.

    The difference? Muscle is more dense, like if you fill a bottle with sand and you fill a similar bottle with pebbles. They will both be full, but the sand will most likely be heavier because its more dense.
  • Deipneus
    Deipneus Posts: 1,854 Member
    So, I started this in this forum because most of you will have very smart answers to this age old question. What is the correct statement:

    Option A: Muscle weighs more than fat! (1 pound of muscle vs 1 pound of fat)

    Option B: Muscle takes up less space than fat. (1 gallon of muscle vs 1 gallon of fat)

    Please discuss and feel free to attack me since I can say my own confession!



    Pope Pasta Fagioli
    Here we go round and round. I've seen this movie several times but have fun!
  • zephtalah
    zephtalah Posts: 327 Member
    I am going to go with neither. A pound is 16 ounces regardless of how it is comprised. A gallon is 128 ounces (usually liquid) no matter of what is made. That being said if you compare a box of equal size one containing fat and one containing muscle then the box containing muscles should weigh more. Muscle weighs more than the same volume size of fat would weigh.
  • Brownsbacker4evr
    Brownsbacker4evr Posts: 365 Member
    I believe its more like Muscle is more dense than fat.

    Like putting a pound of jello versus a pound of rock.

    It weighs the same, but muscle takes less space.

    This was always what I thought.
  • Sparlingo
    Sparlingo Posts: 938 Member
    People are getting caught up in semantics.

    Muscle weighs more than fat in the same way that bricks weigh more than feathers.

    We all know that people who say this are saying that a volume of muscle weighs more than the same volume of fat.

    If you argue otherwise, you can't say that elephants weigh more than mice. A tonne of elephants weigh the same as a tonne of mice. But when someone says that elephants weigh more than mice, we know what they mean, and don't correct them.

    Don't be so picky, people!
  • ICOZA7
    ICOZA7 Posts: 33 Member
    Okay. If you're saying the statement "muscle weighs more than fat" is incorrect due to the fact that a lb of muscle weighs the same as a lb of fat, then you're essentially saying that nothing ever weighs more than anything else, because a pound is a pound.

    When people use the term "this weighs more than that" they're refering to two subjects with the same volume, not the same WEIGHT. DUH you don't compare weights of two things that weigh the same! You compare weights of two things with the same volume, or, take up the same amount of space.

    Sheesh. I can't read another one of these thread or I'm seriously going to lose it.
  • GODfidence
    GODfidence Posts: 249 Member
    The whole "a pound is a pound" is an invalid argument.
    100 pounds of steel and 100 pounds of Ben and jerrys is the same "weight"
    But obviously steel weighs more.
    Someone with 1 square foot of muscle and 1 square fat vs the same person
    But 2 square foot muscle and2 square foot fat would have a less % BF yet
    They would WEIGH MORE.
    Case closed.
  • charlesnapolitano
    charlesnapolitano Posts: 302 Member
    isnt a ton of bricks heavier than a ton of feathers?
  • tadpole242
    tadpole242 Posts: 507 Member
    The whole "a pound is a pound" is an invalid argument.
    100 pounds of steel and 100 pounds of Ben and jerrys is the same "weight"
    But obviously steel weighs more.
    Someone with 1 square foot of muscle and 1 square fat vs the same person
    But 2 square foot muscle and2 square foot fat would have a less % BF yet
    They would WEIGH MORE.
    Case closed.
    This must qualify for the stupidest post of the year. Well done
  • Kohadre
    Kohadre Posts: 316
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  • IamSheaMc
    IamSheaMc Posts: 1,273 Member
    1lb is 1lb be it cotton or steel it's one pound!

    This can't be life smh :huh:
  • homerjspartan
    homerjspartan Posts: 1,893 Member
    Reading this discussion is making me feel more dense. Does that mean I am adding muscle?
  • AndyLL180
    AndyLL180 Posts: 57 Member
    Topics like these are stupid.

    If I say steel weighs more then feathers I am not claiming a 1 pound of steel weighs more then 1 pound of feathers... I am saying by volume steel is heavier then feathers.

    When people here say muscle weighs more the fat... they are not saying 1 pound of muscle weighs more then 1 pound of fat..

    They are saying by volume (density), muscle weighs than fat.
  • MinnesotaManimal
    MinnesotaManimal Posts: 642 Member
    Bump.

    Im still confused. Why did the chicken cross the road
  • mmuzzatti
    mmuzzatti Posts: 704 Member
    Bump.

    Im still confused. Why did the chicken cross the road

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  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    Meat denser than fat.
    /thread

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