muscles vs fat

Everyone says muscle is heavier than fat. But how much heavier is it really? Anyone knows?

Reply 1

i dont think there is a hard and fast rule as it depends on how dense the muscle tissue actually is but from things i've read i'd say it's about twice as heavy.

Reply 2

Eblis_O'_Shaughnessy

Muscle isn't heavier than fat, it's more dense.

Nearer to three times as dense than twice.

Reply 3

Misogynist

Eblis_O'_Shaughnessy

Muscle isn't heavier than fat, it's more dense.

Nearer to three times as dense than twice.

D=M/V therefore D is directly proportional to M.

More density means more mass and in common terminology, weight. You lose.

Reply 4

Dann

Muscles vs. Fat?

I think that Muscles would win, i mean as long as it was a fair fight.

Reply 5

scarletluv

yeah muscle is definitely heavier n denser. that's y its burned first b4 fat.

Reply 6

Eblis_O'_Shaughnessy

Why

D=M/V therefore D is directly proportional to M.

More density means more mass and in common terminology, weight. You lose.

That's a very spurious chain of logic. Muscle does not weigh more than fat any more than steel weighs more than feathers. Were you to have specified a volume or even that they were to have been of equal volume then your argument would have stood. Unfortunately such a thing was not specified. Muscle and fat of equal weight weigh the same (obviously), but the muscle is denser and so will occupy less space. Greater density does not equal greater weight, since weight is not a constant, but is relative to the amount of mass that you are talking about. To specify how much something weighs you must specify an amount of it, whereas density is constant, regardless of the volume of the substance you are referring to.

Therefore you are the one who loses.

The fact that you feel the need to attempt to pick semantic holes in what is a completely correct statement about density suggests that you lose at life as well as the internet.

Reply 7

Eblis_O'_Shaughnessy

scarletluv

yeah muscle is definitely heavier n denser. that's y its burned first b4 fat.

You told you that crap?

Reply 8

_EMMA_

Flopifloor

Everyone says muscle is heavier than fat. But how much heavier is it really? Anyone knows?

if you are worried about your weight, it is better to use your eyes.
if it is for a school project or something, then ignore this.

Reply 9

Chris123456789

scarletluv

yeah muscle is definitely heavier n denser. that's y its burned first b4 fat.

Excuse me? I think you're thinking about carbohydrates being burned before fat...

Reply 10

just t

Eblis_O'_Shaughnessy

Muscle isn't heavier than fat, it's more dense.

Nearer to three times as dense than twice.

ditto!

Reply 11

lets_begin

Eblis_O'_Shaughnessy

You told you that crap?

TSR did.

Reply 12

Stone

Neither is heavier than the other! (obviously unless one is 1lb and the other 3 lb! be simple that!)

Just that lb for lb, muscle weight is smaller in size for the reasons given above.

The question should be rephrased to (example), 'what is bigger/smaller if muscle and fat weighed 1lb',