Does getting muscle mean gaining weight?

Not if you loose the same ammount of weight in fat as you gain in muscle.
But dont you think muscle weighs anything? Muscle weighs more than fat, thats why its normal to go upp in weight when you start training even though your not bulking. Dont care about the weight, care about the fat percent.
 
1lb of muscle,fat,feathers,all weigh 1lb.
but a square inch of muscle is five times the weight of a square inch of fat.
so you may weigh more or stay the same but be much slimmer:cool: :D
 
i think weight is a poor judgement for physique

a muscle person can weight the same as a fat person
you can loose fat but gain muscle so your weight doesnt change but your bf might have

i believe it was 3-5 pounds is based on water so if you get dehydrated, poop, pee etc, u can be 3-5 pounds from the last time you weightd yourself
 
mucleboywannabe said:
i think weight is a poor judgement for physique

a muscle person can weight the same as a fat person
you can loose fat but gain muscle so your weight doesnt change but your bf might have

i believe it was 3-5 pounds is based on water so if you get dehydrated, poop, pee etc, u can be 3-5 pounds from the last time you weightd yourself
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i agree, yet doctors still use BMI as a gague for obesity...i dont understand it. what do they do when a bodybuilder walks in?

"Um sir, you really need to start being concerned about your health, according to my handy chart you are severly obese"
 
It's really funny you said that junkfoodbad. I failed my BMI every time I went in for our body fat measurements...haha. I was 217 lbs and had a 36" waist...but my next has always been small, and normally measured in about 15.5"...so I was always "obese" whereas these totally fat guys would walk around with double chins and their guts stickin out past their feet, but they had an 18" in neck so they would pass their BMI. So, BMI doesn't really prove anything necessarily.
 
It depends how you train. But fat weighs less than muscle. So you may get cut, lose fat, but gain weight. It's just a number. Don't focus on it too much unless you are a competetive wrestler or body builder.
 
a mirror is a good way to gauge yourself.

weight is only useful if you know your bodyfat percentage...otherwise you don't know if its fat or muscle you're gaining/losing...and even then, water retention/dehydration still can bounce you 3lbs either way, easily. plus undigested food, etc...
 
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