He's gonna make me muscle freak! :'(

I guarantee you will never look too muscular even if you trained with 100% efficiency for the next 30 years.

^^ This. Your personal trainer is right. Muscle burns more calories than fat. Even if you do get a layer of muscle under the fat, it will be easier to lose with all the muscle!

I do strength training and am seeing great results (the scale isn't moving, but the fat is). You won't get muscle bound (it takes a lot of bulking and cutting to get that way... it doesn't happen overnight). You can do this!!

I'm starting a more serious weight lifting regiment this summer so I'm there with ya, but a lot of people have said the same to me as Miss Nerdy has said to you. They also told me that I don't need to worry about bulking i iam still eating t a deficit

I lifted heavy while I lost my weight, and it does work. I did about 30 minutes of cardio, and 1.5hrs of lifting 5 days a week, and lost 260 in about 20 months, and have kept it off now for a year and a half.

I agree with dibelcibo, don't be afraid of muscles. Unless you taking steroids or some other drug, you will never get ridiculously huge. You will on the other hand, get lean and fit, and raise your metabolism!

One thing you should pay close attention is body fat percentage, versus actual building new muscle to be "freak".

Often, lowering the body fat looks like you are gaining more muscle, since it's just revealing what you have, but in reality they are two entirely different things.

At your weight, you have significant muscle, because you need to carry yourself around. That's not a knock on you, it's to show how strong you are. If you lift as you lose, you want to preserve the muscle you have as much as possible.

As the others say, you can't accidentally bulk up. It takes effort. It's like accidentally being too rich - just stop making money.

Hi! I assume you are on a calorie deficit? If so, you will get smaller, not bigger.
Since you're a beginner, you might gain some muscle at first, but you'll also be losing fat. And after a while, you'll be losing fat, and just trying to hang on to the muscle you have by lifting.
If you're body fat % ever gets lower than you'd like (you get too muscley), you can just gain some body fat back by eating a little more. But that would be years down the line most likely.

I wish I had gotten that advice when I was young!


DO IT!!!!!!

you will actually look SMALLER at heavier weight.

NO one EVER guesses my weight right!

Before...during..and I am 41..YOU sir are going to be amazing!

There are a lot of studies that indicate that muscle does have a metabolic advantage over fat (a pound of muscle takes more calories to maintain than a pound of fat). In essence, two people who weigh the same but one has more muscle and less fat will burn more calories every day just by living.

Weight training also burns calories both while you workout and while you recover.

However, I don't think it would harm your progress if you lifted with your trainer and added cardio on your own time!

agreed..i weight train 3 days, and walk/cardio on the days i dont lift.

"Lifting weights" will not make you a muscle freak. It will do exactly what you want it to do firm you up and enable your body to burn more calories at all times. Build some muscle, do some cardio! Don't be afraid, just keep doing it.

But i'm scared of muscles

what?

why?

You know! those people who are more muscle than human! Thats how my personal trainer is...I dont want to look like that >.>

Don't put the cart before the horse. If you get to the point where you think you appear to muscular, lay off the weight training, or eat a little more to add back some fat.

edit for typo

The personal trainer said if i build muscle it will burn the fat right off...But i'm scared of muscles

I always did a little strength training...but that was never my main focus in the past.

Calm my fears please

It doesn't need to be your main focus either. You can incorporate strength training into your cardio routines. I do modified circuits (I do heavier weights wihtout breaks to keep my HR up, and it helps build muscle at the same time) M,W,F. I do higher intensity cardio on T, Th, Sa. I have made some significant improvements in my toning, and have built some strength and muscle as well.

I know several people who do strength training and cardio on alternating days. Also, I know people who start with cardio and then move into strength in a single workout.

My point is that it doesn't have to be one or the other. You can work in both if you desire.

Not gonna Happen!!

To get to that level "More Muscle than human" take YEARS of solid training, Solid nutrition, it does not happen over night, hell even those on ROIDS don't get there overnight!!

As stated, Muscle burns more calories then fat per day, hence why it'll burn up body fat, and if you ever think you are going too far, stop, ask the trainer again, and re-adjust.

Calm my fears please

Dude,

it's simple.

A calorie deficit created through good diet will cause you to lose the body fat. Getting your diet on point is by far the best thing you can do in that regard.

The weights will preserve your existing muscle mass and maybe even increase it a little as you go through this process. You might be afraid of your muscles but don't be - they are the things that currently mean you can perform your functions of day to day living given your present weight. If you don't fear them right now then you have nothing to worry about as you lose body fat.

Those rippling muscles you see on your trainer are as much to do with a low body fat % as they are with actual muscle. So all you have to do is stop dieting once you reach a body fat % you feel comfortable with. You will still have the muscle underneath to help you with being strong in daily life but they won't be prominent. Don't worry about ending up like the guys you see on body building magazines - most of them are juicing.

Job done.