Can we talk about muscle weighing more than fat?

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So I've been doing pole dancing which is strength training for a few months now and I've noticed I've put a few pounds on. My waist and hip measurements etc are still the same so I'm not any bigger. My arms are definitely more muscly! Do you think it's because as some people say muscle weighs more than fat?

Fat but fit still poses a higher CVD risk than Lean and Fit.

I can't make that Army calculator work. It keeps coming up with numbers like "-64%".

I got this calculator to work fine... result seems plausible.

www.calculator.net/body-fat-calculator.html

Brownfang sorry about the link not working, the one you found is essentially the same calculator, I got the same bodyfat result, 17%.

The amount of muscle a female with typical testosterone levels can build in even a year is radically overestimated. Even heavy lifters can hope for a couple of kilos three at a push), and probably then only in their first year ('newbie gains').

My scales tell me I'm 19% body fat. When compared with competition-grade females with clinically-accurate measurements of body fat, I am clearly not 19%.

And agree, the vast majority of Olympians are healthy BMI. It's the power lifters and throwers that start to populate the overweight catergory.

The best lies have an element of truth.

It's true that muscle (and blood, bone, skin, hair and pretty much everything else in body) is more dense than fat. But muscle being heavier than fat is another one of those excuses used by unhealthy overweight people to deny the truth about their unhealthy bodies.

I've seen it SO many times. Someone joins SW or similar for 2 weeks, does a couple of power walks, doesn't watch their intake carefully enough and plateaus/gains. Cue 'Oh well, muscle weighs more than fat. You've probably just gained muscle'. Or my other favourite diet misconception 'You're not eating enough. Your body is in starvation mode. Have a cream bun and you'll start losing again'.

So bloody irritating.

One thing though (not completely related) but some people are "denser" than others. My body fat is between 16-18% I'm a size 6 (24in waist) but my BMI is 21-22 (I'm 5"3). Most people of my height and size are a few lbs lighter.