How do you gain muscle while losing fat?
Asked by duffyk2 on Mar 31, 2008
in Weight Loss
I have been doing cardio everyday for a hour, and I was wondering if I added weights how quickly would I gain muscle? I was told by my school dietitian that with a low calorie diet you can't gain muscle, is that true?
Answer
You need to eat enough calories to spare protein for building muscle. Otherwise, you’ll burn the protein you eat to meet your calorie needs. Weight-training is a good idea, but people build muscle at differing rates depending on their body type. In three months of training, a slender person might gain one pound of muscle, while a naturally muscular person could gain 4 times as much. After you lift weights, eat some carbohydrate and protein to replenish the muscle glucose and build new muscle. It is also important to lift weights every other day because muscles grow during your day of rest. Two to three days a week of lifting is all you need.
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