How Many Calories Burned to Lose a Pound of Fat?
It takes 3,500 calories burned to lose a pound of fat. An extra 20 calories per day isn’t going to make a dent in your body composition. It isn’t even significant! All of that time devoted to gaining muscle could be put towards cardio and the results would blow the “muscle gain” approach out of the water. Cardio and Calorie Deficit is a Direct Route to Fat Loss You can easily burn 600 calories doing hard cardio. Since you aren’t trying to build muscle, you can also reduce your daily calories 600 under maintenance level and hold on to the muscle while losing weight. So this cardio and diet combination can burn an additional 1,200 calories per day (I realize that this is vastly simplified…I just didn’t want to make this post too technical). This is 60 times as many calories burned compared to the body composition example listed above cause by gaining muscle. I Realize That Cardio and Diet Aren’t Exactly 60 Times Better Obviously I didn’t take into account the calories burned doing extra
