Working out burning muscle instead of fat ??
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You only lose muscle when you exercise if you don't eat enough protein to sustain your muscle mass and you do an excessive amount of Cardiovascular exercise without weight training. Go to www.bodyforlife.com and take a look at Arnold Schwarzenegger's Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding.\n\nWhen you do cardiovascular exercise you want to be in your target heart range for max fat loss. Here's the formula:\n\n220-Your age= Your Maximum Heart Rate\n\n\n(220-Your age) x 0.85= 85% of your Max Heart Rate\n\n\n220-Your age) x 0.65= 65% of your Max Heart Rate\n\nKeep your heart beating between 65% and 85% of your Max Heart Rate. Buy a heart monitor to measure this. You can get them from Walmart or any Sporting Goods store.
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No.  Depending on your definition of 'getting muscles'.  Diets alone really don't seem to work and any kind of exercise would at least result in some toning of the muscles.  A body that isn't lean and fit tends to be inefficient.  While its true that calories in-calories out is how your weight is affected I speculate that if you cut your calories you'll just end up lazier and feeling like you have less energy.  This is of course unless you consume some ridiculous amounts of food.  But overall the best idea is to combine food and exercise. Getting 'muscles' isn't bad, as lean muscle mass burns more fat at rest.  If you don't want large muscles concentrate on cardio-respatory and muscle endurance rather than weight lifting.  This way your muscles will be toned and you'll burn fat more effectively.
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Do high intensity cardio. It wont burn muscle and it will burn more fat. Do it really intense. Not the slow jogging cardio that you might have tried for an hour or more. Do high intensity for 20-25 mins! It will be enough and it keeps burning for alot more time after youre done. Ive read alot about this so try one of the sites: \nhttp://www.musclemedia.com/training/hiit.asp\n\nIf you want more info just search for HIIT training of just HIIT on google.
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This is probably not what you want to hear but here goes;\n\nEat less, Exercise more.\n\nLess overall body fat will make you feel like exercising more.  If you do an all over moderate weight training you will tone the parts which you may think need to loose weight.  Anyhow you might find that you are built right when you have increased your fitness.  \n\nAlso, Don't look at the air brushed models in the magazines.  They even wish they looked like that.  \n\nBy the way,  Muscle burns calories.  Fat does not burn anything.\nWhen you weight train you burn additional calories for 24 to 48 hours while your muscle repairs and strengthens.  And when you increase muscle mass you burn extra calories all of the time.  \n\nAerobic exercise burns calories for a few hours after your exercise in addition to while you are exercising.  \n\nSo do some of both types of exercises. Eat nutritionally, Drink water, &  Get rest.  If you've been doing the same exercise for a while, Change to something else.  This will help.\n\nGod Bless You,  ;-)
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3,500 calories = one pound.  If you burn 3,500 calories, you will lose a pound in caloric energie, but depending on what type of exercise, you might not lose exactly a pound due to increased muscle mass.  For fat burning, you want to do things like walk instead of run, because running is a cardivascular exercise, and gets your heart rate going, but walking is better for fat burning because your heart doesn't have to work as hard and you will be in the "fat burning zone"
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There is no such thing as a fat burning pill.  The only way to burn fat is through a cardiovascular workout.
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Cardio, cardio, cardio. This helps you with the simple philosophy behind fat loss: Burn more calories than you take in. If your goal is fat loss, incorporate 4–6, 30–60-minute sessions per week into your training schedule.\n\nOf iron and sweat. If your goal is to lean out, follow your weight training with cardio. Since lifting depletes glycogen stores, your body is more likely to use fat as its first fuel source during cardio. Also, the combination of the two results in a higher caloric burn postworkout.\n\nTread heavily. What’s the best exercise and intensity to burn maximal fat? Researchers found that jogging on the treadmill at about 70% of your maximal heart rate, or MHR (subtract your age from 220 and multiply by 0.7 for your heart rate in beats per minute), was optimal, burning about 40 grams of fat per hour of exercise. Going above or below this intensity burned significantly less fat, as did pedaling on a stationary cycle, regardless of intensity.\n\nRun hungry. If you can stomach getting up earlier, perform cardio before your first meal of the day. Your body is most likely to use fat as the first energy source because your glycogen stores are depleted. If you’re concerned with muscle loss, take 10–20 grams of whey protein before your session, but stay away from carbs.\n\nPost-cardio burn. Following aerobic exercise, your resting metabolic rate remains elevated for anywhere from 60 minutes to about 12 hours, depending on the intensity and duration of the exercise session.\n\nMove outdoors. Try your next outdoor run on sand, which is more difficult than running on harder surfaces like cement. It’s easier on the joints as well, but wear shoes to avoid stress fractures and protect your feet from glass. Running on grass is also a welcome relief to joints and arches.\n\nTaper off. Instead of starting slow and building up speed, do your high-intensity cardio early in your workout and taper off to a slow finish to burn significantly more fat. After a 2–3-minute warm-up, immediately kick it into high gear (80%–85% max heart rate) for 15–20 minutes before slowing down (60%–65% max heart rate) for the last 10–20 minutes.\n\nVary your cardio. Whether you’re lifting weights or doing cardio, the trick is to keep your body from adapting to what you’re doing. Regularly changing your cardio mode is the best way to keep your body responding to your efforts.\n\nInterval for success. Unless you’re a highly conditioned athlete, you can’t maintain a very intense pace for very long, so the best way to improve your aerobic fitness and burn fat is with intervals. That is, you alternate very intense periods of work with lower-intensity sessions in which you recover.\n\nNo butts. Smoking deprives cells of the oxygen they need to maximize metabolism, keeps muscles from repairing themselves after exercise and makes cardio a lot tougher. Plus, your smoke-scented clothes are sure to irritate fellow gym rats.\n\nFidget to fight fat. Are you a fidgeter? Maybe you should be. Several studies have shown that toe-tappers, while completely annoying at the office, will burn more calories over the course of the day than the stationary man.\n\nNUTRITION\n\nStay hydrated. Active individuals actually require more water and should aim to consume roughly 1 gallon per day to avoid becoming dehydrated. And if you’re one of those people who hates drinking water, consider this: Dehydrated individuals burn less fat than their well-watered counterparts.\n\nEat more frequently. Eating 5–6 small meals a day as opposed to “three squares a day” causes your metabolism to work constantly. Eating larger meals, on the other hand, slows your metabolism and forces leftover calories to be stored as fat.\n\nEat protein. Since muscle-building is the fastest route to slim down, you want to make sure that your protein consumption is enough to keep up with your weight training. Eat too little protein and your gains could be much slower. Get 1–1
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Running, swimming, treadmill etc. etc. Cardiovascular work that raises the metabolism level and keeps it elevated for a while is the only way to naturally burn fat. If you stop exercising, you will most likely lose muscle tone and definition.
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Bodybuilders exercise to burn fat. You can get exercise by moving your body.
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Definately exercise, and more vegetables never really hurt anyone. Though you will want to cut out seconds.\n\nWalk a lot- get used to physical activity. And while I don't ordinarily advise this, talk with someone at a health club who can show you some good stretching exercises, and a good regimen to start building up the muscle and burning off the excess fat.\n\nAnother thing: Get a good pair of shoes. You'll be amazed at how big a difference those can make in how sore you get. I tried to get by with a 3 dollar pair of bargain-bin tennis shoes once, and ended up throwing them out after 3 days of feeling like I had been beaten with a rolling pin from the neck on down.\n\nKeep in mind that I don't know your circumstances or what you're calling 'fat', but those shouldn't hurt you at least.
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try weight training instead of just cardio  training
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if you are strictly wanting skinnier legs, cardio is the way to go. personally, i alternate cardio workouts and weight training. however, i'm looking for slight muscle definition. cardiovascular training burns fat. it will build some muscle, but it will be a small amount and will be more of a "toned" look. i wish i could tell you there is a quick, simple way. however, from a girl who inherited large hips and thighs, i can tell you that exercising with cardio is the best thing you can do. treadmill, biking, eliptical, soccer, anything that will get you active. if you aren't able to run, walking is better than nothing. maybe try ankle weights for a little extra work. a healthy diet doesn't hurt either! try snacking on fruit instead of chips, water instead of carbonated beverages, and lower caloric intake for faster results. it's all in the math. take in less calories, burn more, the results....fat loss that you will be happy with! good luck to you!
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Fat cannot convert itself into muscle.You have to burn the fat by aerobics by simultaneously building up muscles with diet and strength training.
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You're fine.\n\nHere's the thing; you're going to get nowhere trying to exercise the muscles under the problem areas. Exercise your whole body. Also, you don't burn fat until the second half hour of exercise. It would be better to exercise for 2 hours once a week rather than 1/2 hour every day. Try it, the fat will melt away.
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No, weight lifting isn't a cardiovascular exercise. The reason you don't burn as much calories as running is because you don't get your heart pumping to such an extent and your heart rate maintains at a fairly low state usually. You can however combine cardio and weight lifting. Lift weights for about an hour and afterwards burn yourself out and play some basketball or jog for a little.\n\nADDITION:\nJust like the guy below me said, weight lifting isn't bad either. I've maintained to strictly weight lifting and once I get to the size that I am satisfied with, I will start cutting. Reason being, the more muscle you have, the higher your resting metabolic rate(means that you will lose more calories than the average man while simply doing nothing). I'd prefer to get muscular first and then cut because it will only help the latter process and allow me to cut easily. Not only this, but adding muscle to your frame places less emphasis on your fat.
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Yes, weight training. Muscle is much heavier than fat and it looks better, also you will loose fat much more rapidly than muscle. So i suggest increasing your GOOD calorie count, carbohydrates and fats and get some form of good Whey Protien then hit the gym. \n\nTo get results i suggest not to mess around. Hire a fitness trainer for maybe three months so he or she can at least teach you the correct way to eat and workout in order to gain muscle.\n\nPS just keep at it and you will gain the weight you want so badly just do not look for anything overnight but it will come.
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I can not believe no one has answered this as yet.  I read some books on loosing weight and one of them stressed keeping your system cool. I can not remember why since all I needed was to do it at the time.  You are trying to change the ratio of muscle to fat and doing exercise slowly helped, I remember this author thought.  Drink lots of cold water.