If you’re a person that has a lot of fat you want to lose, what should you be doing? Some would argue that you should shed the fat off your body first, than get to work on putting on muscle. This could actually be counter productive to the process. Putting on muscle and later shedding the fat will work much more efficiently.

The more muscle that you have on your body, the more efficient you become at burning fat. The reason for this is that your muscles require maintenance calories to keep them alive and working. A lot of people don’t realize this, but for every 1lb of muscle you put on your body will burn an additional 60 calories. That may not sound like many calories, but if you put on 10lbs of muscle, you’ll burn an additional 600 calories.

600 calories is a lot. That is practically an additional meal you can eat each day without putting on a pound of fat for it. That’s significant. OR if you want to look at it differently. Put on 10lbs and you’ll burn an additional 600 calories each day (assuming you eat the same amount). It’ll make you a much more efficient fat burner.