Does work out with heavy weights result in weight reduction?

Question

does fat burn or does fat turn in to muscle when heavy weights are used?

Answer 1

the heavier the weights you use the more muscle you will pack on which actually weighs more than fat itself,if you want to lose weight and tone up use lighter weight and do more reps

Answer 2

I've always been taught the following:

To create bulk/more muscle mass, do a few reps of heavy weight lifting.

To create lean/slimming muscle mass, do many reps of light weights.

Now, I don't know if that is 100% true, but it worked for me.

And, BTW, fat doesn't turn in to muscle. Fat is a fuel your body uses to allow other mechanisms in your system turn red blood cells into the muscle or organ cells your body needs. AND muscle weighs more than fat, so depending on where you are fat/muscle wise, you could actually find yourself gaining weight (but losing clothing sizes) as you weight-train.

Answer 3

Working out with wts is a form of calorie burn, so yes. It will replace fat with muscle and muscle burns calories. Once you have muscles, the muscles will be burning calories even at rest....how nice. But, muscles are denser and bulkier and therefore your clothes may not fit looser, since muscle is dense. Also the scale may not register a weight loss, since muscle weighs more than fat. This is initially, in the end being healthy and exercising will net gain wt. loss.

Fat does not turn into muscle, fat is dissipated as a fuel and metabolized when you exercise, so it's otta there buddy.

Answer 4

fat does not turn to muscle. muscle comes in and fat either stays there or burns. you have to burn the fat away to make it go away. if you just lift weights, you gain weight, but won't lose a lot of fat, or at least not enough to balance is all out. that is why when you go on a diet and what not, you don't lose weight right away. muscle weighs more than fat. ~

Answer 5

Fat burns off, and muscle builds. At first, since muscles weigh more than fat, and fat takes longer to burn than muscles take to build, you may notice a weight gain. Don't be discouraged. You may also be noticing a change in inches.

Answer 6

Working out will actually show a gain in weight. This is misleading since muscle is denser and thus weighs more than fat. You can tell you're making progress by how your clothes fit regardless of what the scale reads.

Answer 7

Yes, but not as much as aerobic exercise. That means running, swimming, boxing, or anything that puts you out of breath.

Also remember that muscle is heavier than fat so if you put on weight after weight training, its not necessarily a bad thing.

Answer 8

the heavy weight does not reduce weight all a dose is builde muscle