A Pound of Muscle weight more than and a Pound of fat?
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Tell me why someone can't pick up a 10lb dumb-bell!!!
I picked up a 185 lb dumb-bell, and eventually married him.0 -
This poor dead horse.
I so sorry horsey.0 -
I'm saving this image...I think it will come in handy again.
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I do understand where you are coming from. As I build muscle, the scale tends to fluctuate in a strange way. My own real world example of the difference between the volume of fat vs. the volume of muscle goes like this: When I first began losing weight, I got all the way down to about 190 lbs. I was thrilled. I hadn't started strength training yet but I was thrilled with what the scale was telling me. Over the next couple of years, this and that happened and I put about 20 lbs back on. As I re-started my exercise program, I included strength training. I started losing the weight. Very slowly. What started to change were my measurements. My legs lost some, my waist, my arms, everything started to change but the scale lagged sorely behind. Then I had that moment when I realized what was really happening. As I lost fat and replaced it with muscle, the scale would barely change but suddenly my pants are too bid. My trainer said to me, and I quote, "girl, you're pants are too baggy, you need to go shopping"! The pants I could wear at 190 lbs fit me right now and I'm 14 lbs heavier. I'm training myself to watch my clothes and measurements rather than put too much focus on what the scale says. When I told someone once that I weighed 200 lbs, she said, "no way, there's no way you weigh that much". I marched over to the scale and show her. Then she grabbed my arm. "You're all muscle!" Well, I'm not all muscle and I would like to get down to about 185 lbs some day. I still cry sometimes when I get on the scale and my trainer has to put the kid gloves on and point out my measurements. You keep your chin up and remember we're all here for you!0
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Thanks for your reply!0
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Density( more ester type bonds for lipids )
muscle = 1.03kgl^-1
fat=0.9kgl^-10 -
Thank you for finally helping me understand what is actually meant when people say this... For the past couple of years I have become obsessed with dieting, exercising and weighing myself, I have never been as fit as I am now but I still weigh a stone more than I'd like to but I fit into what I used to think as skinny clothes. Finally I realise that I would rather be the weight I am through being fit and toned rather than a stone skinnier!0
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Both weigh a pound but the fat has more volume0
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But which fat is superior, a** fat, or b**b fat?0
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One word folks DENSITY.
Exactly. That is what I think every time this comes up.0
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