Does fat convert into muscle?

Question

When you exercise, you obviously burn fat
and strengthen muscle. My question is,
is there an actual CONVERSION of the fat
cells turning into muscle cells?

Answer 1

No. Fat is simply burned off AFTER the body depletes the carbohydrates it needs for energy.

Fat serves three purposes...Insulation, protection (organs) and energy. Once the carbohydrates are no longer available for energy, the body will resort to the fat. This is why it's important to exercise 30 minutes or longer to burn fat. The average person starts burning fat after 20 minutes of a cardio exercise at 60 to 80% of peak keart rate.

Answer 2

You can NEVER convert fat into muscle. People say it all the time. Fat cells are totally opposite to muscle cells. Its like mixing water and oil together, it wont happen. You have to lose the fat, and work to get the muscle, or you could just get the muscle, and not lose any fat! But if you have too much fat, your muscles will lack definition, since fat sits on top of muscle! The good thing is, the more muscle you have, the easier it is to burn fat, since muscles raise your metabolism!

Answer 3

No. Its like asking if skin would turn to bone.

Fat and muscle are two different types of tissues. The only conversion of fat is to energy through oxidation

Answer 4

NOPE. The fat just burns away as you build muscle. Muscle helps burn calories which cause you to be fat, so there is no way the fat can change into muscle.

Answer 5

In order actually to convert body fat into muscle, we must avoid triggering the survival mechanism. Consequently, we have to be patient and proceed slowly. "Sneak the fat off."
Insulin helps with the building of digested proteins into our muscles. Chromium is essential for normal insulin metabolism, including this muscle-building process.
Dr. Colgan recommends supplementing with chromium picolinate.

Avoid sugars, except "during and immediately after intense exercise, [because] every time you eat simple sugars, especially sugared drinks, blood sugar rises precipitously and causes an insulin burst. The liver then balances the insulin see-saw by turning the excess into triglycerides (fats), which are promptly deposited as body fat."2 Eating a high fiber diet is helpful in stabilizing insulin production because it slows the absorption of both fats and sugars.

Insulin efficiency is increased by the omega-3 fatty acids, particularly by ecosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), both of which are found in certain fish oils. (See NOHA NEWS, Fall 1991, "Stalking the Essential Fatty Acids," p. 6.)

L-carnitine, an amino acid that we can make in our bodies, is essential for burning fat inside our muscle cells.
Hope this helps. :)

Answer 6

It's like turning lead into gold. Just does not happen. It may look like it does since you would lose fat while at the same time adding muscle, but one does not change into the other.

Answer 7

No. Fat is burned by the body during exercise and activity much like your car runs off gasoline.

Answer 8

No, just as the contrary does not happen. Some people say, oh, don't build muscle because it will turn into fat when you get older. They are comletely different.

Answer 9

No, it is just an expression, turning muscle into fat. It really just means burning fat and adding muscle mass. HTH : )

Answer 10

It is physiologically impossible to convert muscle to fat and fat to muscle. Muscle and fat are two distinct biological tissues with different roles.