5 lbs muscle vs. 5 lbs fat

that pic is kinda funny...
and it really defeats the argument that people claim "muscle weighs more than fat" - 5lbs - 5lbs - always... but the 5lbs of muscle takes up a lot less mass than 5lbs of fat does...
 
I was just stating it because I hear "muscle weighs more than fat" 100 times a day. your pic just proved it.
 
What 5 lbs of fat looks like!

....after losing 10 lbs and thinking it wasn't that much i feel so proud of myself now lol:
 
5 lbs of Fat vs 5 lbs of Muscle

I'm sure these pics have been used on the forum before.

But one more time, the difference between losing "weight" and losing fat.

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See, if a person started eating properly and exercising, and they lost 5 lbs of fat but gained 5 lbs of muscle (highly unlikely), if they were concerned solely with scale weight, then they likely would be greatly disappointed as they made no gains.

But you can see from the photo, if this did happen, the person would be considerably smaller and probably a lot healthier, even if the scale didn't budge.

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Here's a representation of 5 lbs of fat alone. :ack2:

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Or, if you prefer, 1 lb of fat with something you can compare it to. :ack2:

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Finally, another photo I have on file to show the difference between exercising to lose weight vs simply dieting to lose weight.

I think that photo is quite telling why you should exercise. :)
 
Wow Doc that's a great visual comparison...man..

At first I thought this was going to be one of those "which weighs more" questions that my elementary students always fall for.. :)
 
Nice pics, thanks for sharing. So...how much more dense is muscle than fat. The pictures make it look about twice as dense...just curious.
 
So good to see. Makes me want to work harder and harder. Also a good one to show people who comment that slim people don't need to exercise. Everyone needs to exercise if they want to look and feel good on the inside.

Those pics were great.
 
I always assumed when people said "Muscle weighs more than fat" they were implying the same amount of muscle weighs more than the same amount of fat, as in relation to space they occupy.

Its not logical to ever think people were actually meaning 5lbs of fat is heavier than 5lbs of muscle unless that's exactly what they said. Which I'm sure some people do from misunderstanding the statement "muscle weighs more than fat."
 
jeffisbig said:
I always assumed when people said "Muscle weighs more than fat" they were implying the same amount of muscle weighs more than the same amount of fat, as in relation to space they occupy.

Its not logical to ever think people were actually meaning 5lbs of fat is heavier than 5lbs of muscle unless that's exactly what they said. Which I'm sure some people do from misunderstanding the statement "muscle weighs more than fat."
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i completely agree. The statement muscle weighs more than is completely true, if u don't think about like a fool(no offense to anyone who just didn't understand at first)...but i mean common people its in relation to the amount of space it takes up. OFC a lb of muscle weights the same as a lb of fat...but it doesn't take up the same space.

Think about it like this, bricks and feathers... 5 lbs of bricks weights the same as 5 lbs of feathers, but its still a true statement to say that bricks weigh more than feathers(because its all about density).


By ur assbackwards logic: steal weighs the same as air.

Sry for the unnecessarily long explanation of an extremely simple concept..but the posts i read forced me to explain it.
 
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