How to tell whether it is growing muscle or fat

Fitness Bar teaches you how to simply distinguish whether you are growing muscle or fat

　　Most people want to grow muscle through fitness, rather than growing fat. Especially during the muscle growth period, fat will always grow with mixed fish. Even if it is inevitable, we still need to understand and make timely training and dietary adjustments.

　　So how to judge whether the weight you have increased is muscle or fat? Fitness Bar teaches you a few tricks to identify.

　　1. Body fat measurement

　　Almost every gym has props for body fat measurement, and you can measure your body fat regularly. If as your weight increases, your body fat does not increase or does not increase much, then the evidence is It turns out that most of you grow muscles, which is great. If your body fat increases greatly, then you will have a lot of fat. At this time, you should check if you have consumed too much fat and calorie.

　　2. When you are relaxed, you can feel it with your hands

　　Pinching with your hands when you are relaxed, you can almost get a lot of meat. If you are low in body fat, you can hardly grab a lot of meat. Relying on your feelings, if you feel that the meat you can get is obviously much more than before, then you should have grown a lot of fat.

　　3. Judging by appearance

　　You can take photos of yourself regularly and compare the photos before and after. If you find that the muscle lines are obviously worse, then you The body fat is obviously increasing. If you find that the muscle lines are strengthened and the muscle shape becomes more obvious, then your body fat will not increase a lot.

　　4. The shape of muscles in a state of congestion

　　People who like to exercise should know that the difference between the muscles in a state of congestion and the non-congestion is very big. The muscles in a state of congestion are fuller, and fat will be easier to judge. If the muscles in a state of congestion are clear, the body fat will not be very high. Friends with high body fat will form a more rounded shape in a state of congestion, similar to a semicircular shape. According to the comparison between the current and previous state of congestion, it can be judged whether the fat has become more.

　　5. Test with strength

　　Fat is impossible to drive the body to exercise, so you can tell whether you have more muscles or more fat through this point. If your latitude and weight increase are obvious, but your strength does not grow too much, then most of what you grow may be fat. After a reasonable diet exercise plan, the latitude will not grow too fast, and strength will grow at a faster rate. But one thing to note is that the weight will generally soar in the first and second months of starting fitness. This is just a good state of reaction caused by the increase in body metabolism, not because of the growth of more fat.

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