Muscle vs Fat

[laurenella82 625]

Why do people think muscle weighs more than fat???? A pound is a pound. It just looks different. If I took a scale and put a pound of cotton on one side and a one pound weight on the other side it's going to be even. It's just going to LOOK different. A pound is a pound is a pound!

[imsoglad56 402]

Because muscle is denser. A pound of muscle takes up less room than a pound of fat. So if you're gaining muscle while you're losing fat, you could be staying the same weight yet losing inches.

[laurenella82 625]

Because muscle is denser. A pound of muscle takes up less room than a pound of fat. So if you're gaining muscle while you're losing fat, you could be staying the same weight yet losing inches.

Agreed! But it still weighs the same lol. I even had a personal trainer tell me that a pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat smh. My silly behind believed him for a while too ????

But If you look at 2 people who weigh the same and are the same height they could look completely different from one another. They may even wear different sizes. It's a question of the muscle to body fat ratio.

Edited December 1, 2014 by laurenella82

[imsoglad56 402]

Agreed! But it still weighs the same lol. I even had a personal trainer tell me that a pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat smh. My silly behind believed him for a while too ????

But If you look at 2 people who weigh the same and are the same height they could look completely different from one another. They may even wear different sizes. It's a question of the muscle to body fat ratio.

Yep, yep. Not everyone grasps the concept. I remember a guy at school once arguing with me that a ton of feathers didn't weigh near as much as a ton of lead.

[laurenella82 625]

Yep, yep. Not everyone grasps the concept. I remember a guy at school once arguing with me that a ton of feathers didn't weigh near as much as a ton of lead.

lol! Poor thing ????????

[momohime 121]

I think people mean the right thing (that the same weight in muscle is smaller than the same weight in fat), they just don't say it the right way. It's just an idiom that comes out all wrong sometimes. Kinda like how a lot of people say, "I could care less" about things.. You know what general idea they're trying to get across, but they say it backwards from what it really should be.

[BitterSweet* 835]

I think people are just really confused and just don't know any better. I am also surprised by how many people are afraid of pressing weights. I used to run my @ss off trying to tone up my legs and it did not help the way I thought it would. All it did was make my thighs smaller in circumference, but they still looked awful.

Two months of squatting with heavy weights and the lumps and bumps began dissapearing. It is impressive. All I think about is the wasted money on creams and cellulite devices and all I needed were good old fashioned weights.

[jenbaby75 283]

I was just thinking the same thing. A pound is a pound. Doesnmt matter if it's fat, muscle, Water, poop, cheese, etc. They may take up a different amount of space, but they weigh the same.