Weight Gain After Exercise

Article by Sky Taylor, Diet Bites

 


Experiencing Weight Gain After Adding Exercise to Your Fitness Plan

You've windmilled yourself to Holland and back again, you've done so many sit-ups that you're now quite foldable, you've ran until your tongue now touches your knees - yet you never expected to see an increase in body weight on those spiffy bathroom scales!

What - oh what could be triggering an increase rather than a decrease in pounds?

Muscle Weighs More Than Body Fat

Fat doesn't weigh as heavily as muscle. If you experienced the uprising in body weight over a few days or weeks, an if it is minimal - 5 pounds or so, then it's likely due to an increase in muscle mass.

You can easily determine how well your exercise routine is working - to find out if the weight gain is true fat or muscle.

A. Are your waistbands, belts and sashes of your clothing looser?

B. If your belly trimmer looking? Flatter? Is that pooch in front decreasing?

C. Do the calves of your legs look firmer? What about the upper arms?

If the size of your body appears to be shrinking, then the upward shift in weight is likely due to an increase in muscle mass. If not, then the increase is likely due to the following causes.

 


Exercise Doesn't Mean We're Immune to Weight Gain

Indeed - muscle gained through exercise requires more energy [calories] to support than fat. Simply put, we can eat more food - and drink more beverages when we have more muscle mass than fat mass without putting on pounds.

However, that doesn't mean that we can chow-down freely. It just means that we can consume more calories.

Even if we have Arnold-Like muscle mass, if we consume more calories than our body uses it will become stored in the fat cells. Even individuals who exercise like a ding-bat will put on pounds when they exceed their daily caloric intake.

Just because we add exercise to our day doesn't mean that it takes care of all the calories that we consume.

Weight Gain, Beginning of Fat Reducing Plan

If the increase in pounds occurs at the beginning of a diet, this is quite normal.

1. Keep on track with your diet and you should see results.

2. Be sure to check your caloric intake level. You may need to make an adjustment.

3. Watch those beverages and be sure to count them in your daily totals.

 

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