Whoever you're getting your info from, isn't very good at imparting it.
To build muscle you need to eat more calories than you burn. (FALSE).
You need to eat certain types of food. Specifically a lot of proteins, some carbs, and some amino acids and so forth. You also need to be doing very specific muscle building exercises.
To lose fat, you need to be burning more calories than you've taken in. Your body uses the following for fuel, in order of preference : The food you've eaten, the glycogen in your body, your fat stores, your muscle mass.
With plenty of aerobic exercise, you maintain a low glycogen level in your muscles, and so you will burn fat slowly as you exercise. However, the food you've taken in can still be used to build or maintain muscle, and keep your metabolic rate high.
Building muscle mass (throguh strength exercises) is just another way of burning calories. You can still eat less calories than you burn, and build muscle. But you really have to know what you're doing, diet wise.
Your body will use nutritiion to build more muscle mass when you work out, and use stored fat for energy. You wo't lose a lot of weight when you're doing heavy weight workouts, it's true, but you'll have more muscle and less fat. To really reduce fat you need to do aerobic exercise.
Whoever gave you that info is an idiot.
Drink lots of water to help flush out fat. You don't eat less overall, just five or six smaller meals... eat something every few hours. This keeps your metabolism up, because you're body is constantly having to take in nutrients.
To build muscle - you just need to exercise the muscles you want to get bigger... with dumb bells or weight machines, etc.
Losing fat and losing weight are two different things. By losing fat, you do just that... lose fat. Simply trying to lose weight can cause loss of both fat and muscle. The goal should be to lose fat while increasing muscle, if that's what you're into. But simply losing weight overall won't make you more muscular or toned... just smaller with the same amount of developed muscle you have now...
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what you need to do is drink plenty of water and do lots of cardio at least 45 min to see results
you don't need more calories to build muscle more calories will give you more weight
remember to alternate between weight exercises and body weight exercises and keep mixing it up to see best results
Its not possible to gain muscle and lose fat because you need the calories for your muscles considering how muscle is fat in itself only a lot more condensed and strechier. On the other hand if you burn calories too fast you'll lose muscle.
A beginner can do it, if you're further along, its difficult, and extremely slow relative to doing bulk/cut phases.
if you're just starting out you can lose fat and gain muscle, but that stops really quick. its possible but you're diet has to be VERY good
You can do both at the same time when you're starting out but after a while, it's easier to bulk, then cut.
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