The fitness industry isn’t exactly a noble profession. The fitness industry, like any other, is full of lies. Deception abounds. Many, if not most, fitness companies don’t have your best interests at heart; they only care about their bottom line. As a result, the fitness industry’s marketing gurus have concocted a slew of myths throughout the years, all to dupe some unsuspecting individuals into their shoddy programs or suspicious supplements. The term “lean muscle mass” is a misnomer. Sorry, but no exercise program can help you gain “lean muscular mass.” However, you may gain muscle mass. There is no such thing as lean muscle mass in terms of physiology. Muscle mass is classified as lean body tissue or lean mass, along with bones, cartilage, organs, and water.
I’m ready to guess that the term “lean muscle mass” was coined for marketing purposes and that its genesis is tied to the fact that most women are afraid of seeming too macho if they lift weights. When researchers discovered that you could burn more calories in less time with high-intensity interval training than you could with traditional exercises, such as aerobic (vs anaerobic) cardio, it became all the rage in the early 2000s.
The difficulty was that, as HIIT became more popular, few studies were proving its efficacy or superiority to resistance training — or a combination of training modalities. Sorry to break it to you, but there is no such thing as “the best” workout. In actuality, finding a thorough, results-driven, structured fitness program that accommodates your particular objectives and needs is the “best” method to get healthy. Low-intensity steady-state (LISS) cardio, such as running and cycling, is just as beneficial as HIIT. LISS, on the other hand, will not make you “fit” in the classic sense.
Running won’t help you gain muscle (unless you’re performing hill sprints) or enhance your body composition – while you’ll likely lose fat when you start a running program, you may also lose muscle if you don’t undertake some resistance training. Runaway if someone offers you exercise advice and says, “You know, lifting weights can change all your extra fat into muscle!” It is biologically impossible for body fat to transform into muscle. Fat and muscle are two distinct tissues, and the process of fat burning exists independently of the process of muscle growth.
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