Muscle Vs Fat...please Stop

[Mrtiger1 12]

People on the boards are telling people that muscle weighs more than fat. That is the most wrong statement there is. a pound of muscle weighs the same a a pound of fat. Muscle is more dense and takes up less space, but weight is weight.

[bigsleeve56 266]

Are we talking weight or mass you want a lbf or just lb. You really need to get a life everyone else knows what is implied by the statement that muscle weighs more than fat. But to make it correct we need to call it lbf/volumn^3.

[Rootman 1,101]

It's another one of those classic statements which has truth behind it but is in some ways false.

YES a pound of muscle weighs EXACTLY the same as a pound of fat - that's ONE POUND, but as you point out takes up LESS MASS, so in mass a pound of muscle takes up less ROOM then a pound of fat.

I'm exercisiing like never before and have GAINED 5 pounds since my low point in loss on VSG diet, although my clothes are loser and I am mostly smaller in size. My waist is smaller, upper thighs are smaller but biceps and calfs are a bitter larger and MUCH, MUCH more defined, So I am carrying a lot more muscle than I was and am physically smaller and weigh a touch more.

[aroundhky 1,174]

A cubic foot of muscle DOES weigh more than a cubic foot of fat. It just needs to be worded correctly and refer to equal volume when comparing the two types of tissue. That's the main reason people want to assure others that just because the scale is not moving, check those clothes to see if they are more loose. If so, and the scale is the same, you have less fat and more muscle and the body fat % is less. I think that's the main reason that phrase came about. And then there's the whole Water weight and glycogen issue too.