BMI Fat mass - lean mass

❓ Do you know the difference between Fat mass and Lean mass?

🥩 Lean body mass is the weight of everything in your body minus your nonessential fat. This includes your skin, bones, muscles, organs, ligaments, tendons, and body water. The reason it’s important to say “nonessential” is because there is some fat found in your organs and marrow that’s essential for metabolism.

💪 Many people think that the healthier they are, the lower body mass or weight they’ll have. This is false, because there are different standards for what’s considered healthy depending on your body size. For example, if you’re a foot taller than someone, you shouldn’t necessarily expect to have the same target weight to look “good” and be healthy because you have longer bones, which means more mass.

🥓 Additionally, you might have heard that muscle weighs more than fat. This is a common misconception. While a pound of muscle weighs just as much as a pound of fat, the difference is that muscle is actually denser than fat, which means it doesn’t take up as much space as the fat does in your body. That’s why if you’re working out more, losing weight, and building muscle, you may look slimmer and more fit but still weigh the same amount.

📈 That’s a very important distinction that I usually explain in the review of the first Personal Evaluation. One of the first goals of a lot of new students is to lose weight, so it’s very important to understand this concept before getting frustrated over the number on the scale.

🥵 Giorgia fitMindset workouts are designed to burn calories, but even more to transform the fat mass into lean mass. Thus, I am sure with consistency and perseverance your body shape will have an amazing change even if your weight remains stable. 

💃 You will drop in size, you will have to buy new pants, you will feel lighter, more agile, and even more confident. 

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