Tag: Muscle Building

Here's what took me too long to learn: you can eat salad for every meal, run until your knees complain, and watch the scale drop—and still end up softer than you started. Because weight loss and fat loss aren't the same thing. And the missing piece for most of us? Picking up something heavy every once in a while. Strength training gets framed as this optional extra. Something for people who want muscles. But if fat loss is your actual goal—the mirror changing, clothes fitting different, that stubborn stuff finally shifting—then lifting things might be the most useful thing you do all week. Here's why. 1. Muscle Burns Calories While You Sit on the Couch This is the part that sounds like a scam but isn't. Muscle tissue requires energy just to exist. More muscle means your b...