if you tense and release your muscles, are you loosing calories?

Answer 1

Burning calories, yes - but also building muscle by working it, thereby giving better shape.

Peace!

Answer 2

you need ATPto tense your muscle ,and the ATPis dating from the calories that the cell has stored,and release needs ATP too,the principle is easy:the muscle in tense always need ATP to retern to the release

Answer 3

Isometrics that is fitness where you oppose muscle with muscle uses calories. This is the Charles Atlas method or part of it.
plus if you build giant charles atlas isometric muscles they will use calories as well.

look up isometrics to find movements

Answer 4

Just by breathing you are burning calories, so I would imagine by activley using your muscles(even if just flexing) you burn slightly more calories than if you were to be completley still.

I don't think your going to get rock hard abs and buns of steel though. LOL

Answer 5

Yes, any movement or thought burns some calories

Answer 6

You're using up calories just by being alive. If you want to know more, download a calorie counter.

http://www.caloriesperhour.com/

Answer 7

any time you move your body or muscles one way or the other you are burning calories.

Answer 8

no absouletly not ........... If you tense them they burn calories if you relax them they absorb them back in .................. unless you tense them and relax them in a rythym with a person of the oppisite sex the the calories are released in an explosive.............

Answer 9

WHen I fart i do.So yes when Im tense I do release burn calories.

IOI

Answer 10

i think more than just doing nothing