Building muscle takes significantly longer than losing fat due to a ten-to-one rate ratio. Muscle requires building new tissue, whereas fat loss utilizes existing stored fuel, making it best to focus on one goal at a time.
What takes longer fat or muscle?1. Muscle is the slow one. A great year is ten pounds of muscle. Ten pounds of fat can go in ten weeks.2. Fat loss is borrowed energy. You already carry the fuel around muscle has to be built from scratch.3. The rate gap is ten to one. Half a pound of fat a week is normal. Half a pound of muscle a month is good.4. So do not do both at once. Pick the one your photos need first chasing both usually gives you neither.GainFrame. See which direction you are actually going.
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