Muscles Burn More Calories than Fat

Muscles burn on calories than fat at both exercise and at rest. It is said that muscles elevates your resting metabolic rate from 37-50 calories per day. So, if your normal resting metabolic rate is 1400 calories, adding a pound of muscle will increase that resting metabolic rate to say 1437 calories per day; that is calories burned per day. Thus, in addition to restricting caloric intake and increaseing activity and exercise levels, strength training that increases muscle mass, should be incorporated.