When it comes to boosting your body's metabolism and increasing your weight loss, fitness experts agree that one of the best ways is by building up some lean muscle mass. These people continuously tout the idea that the more lean muscle you have, the faster you will get slimmer because this extra muscle will burn extra calories. Are these statements true and is there any scientific evidence to prove their claims that muscle really is a miracle fat burner?

There have been countless studies to find out how many calories were burt up for every pound of muscle on the body. The conclusion of these studies found that between 30 to 50 extra calories were being burnt up for each pound of muscle added to your body. So now that we know that this fact has been clearly confirmed, we should now find out how long it would take us to build or grow an additional pound of muscle?

For the average man, it takes around one month, but for women, it often can take twice as long or even longer. If your not going to use supplements of any kind when building muscle, remember that it can be a slow process of repeating the tearing and then rebuilding of your muscles. If your goal is to build extra muscle as an aid for losing weight, the actual process of tearing and repairing the muscle is one of the only ways to get results from working out.

If you plan to participate in bodybuilding for an increase of fat burning muscle, there are many quality methods that have been developed to do it properly. In the end, it doesn't matter too much which bodybuilding plan you choose as there are always certain vital actions that need to happen if you want to increase the growth of your muscles and also reduce any pain that is very common when tearing your muscles heavily.

When working out any muscle by using weights or resistance, you will find that you get to a point where your muscle is unable to continue lifting and will become completely weak. This is what if referred to as "the point of failure". When you push a muscle up to this point, it starts to get little rips from within. These little rips start to rebuild when there's protein available, generally over the next 48 hours of recovering which will leave you with a small gain in new muscle tissue. It's this added muscle that ends up getting rid of all those excess fat calories.

To be as pain-free as possible while bodybuilding, it's improtant that you learn to properly stretch. After tearing a muscle, a chemical known as lactic acid enters the area and the healing process will begin. Lactic acid is what causes the pain in your muscles after exercise and workouts. Stretching properly helps to reduce the severity of the day after pain many people feel from doing an intense workout by dispersing lactic acid that builds up in your muscles.

It's a good idea, at least if you are just beginning, not to perform weight training every day. At maximum, you are advised to have a day on, day off approach set in place so that you can give yourself that 48 hours for recovering. You could always do other forms of lighter exercise while you are on an "off" day to burn extra calories. Some muscle groups, however, recover and heal much faster than most of the others and an example are your adbominal muscles, which you are able to workout daily.

When you start weight lifting for the result of growing muscle, it is vital to start consuming a quality source of protein as this is what your muscles are mostly made from. So just how much protein will you need to eat if you begin weight training? If you plan to exercise regularly and vigorously, you should increase your protein intake slighly above the RDA's recommended amount of 0.8 g/kg to 1.2-1.8 g/kg.

he question now is, how many actual calories will this additional muscle burn off? If you were to add say, one pound of new muscle, you would end up burning roughly an extra 1500 calories each month and that's without doing any additional dieting or exercise. If you were to gain an additional 10 pounds of new muscle from a continued workout program, you would burn an extra fifteen thousand calories each and every month that would end up accounting for a lot of extra fat loss.