<p class="p1" style="text-align: justify;">So many people want to lose weight but it is not so often that I hear people wanting to lose fat. When I was young I did lots of cardio in hope of being skinny, that was a long time ago. Now I mainly do weight bearing exercises to be strong and remain injury free. I often ask people what their goals are and I am in shock each time I hear someone say that they want to be skinny. I believe strong is the new skinny and there are so many advantages to being strong and healthy. First lets clarify muscle versus fat.</p>
<p class="p2" style="text-align: center;"><b>Myth: Muscle weighs more than fat</b></p>
<p class="p1" style="text-align: justify;">S<a href="http://www.choose2be.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Muscle-versus-fat.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-912 size-medium" src="http://www.choose2be.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Muscle-versus-fat-300x231.jpg" alt="Muscle versus fat - Nanaimo Personal Training  - 8 week online program - strong - weight lost - weight training" width="300" height="231" /></a>o many people say muscle weighs more than fat. Actually that is not true. 1 pound of muscle and 1 pound of fat weigh the same. Although its not the same density. Look at the picture and see how much more space fat takes compared to muscle. That is why you should not worry about the scale when you start working out but see results by how your clothes suit you. So the goal is to change your body composition by having more muscle and less fat.</p>
<p class="p2" style="text-align: center;"><b>Body composition affect the way you look</b></p>
<p class="p1" style="text-align: justify;">This picture show a men and wo<a href="http://www.choose2be.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Body-composition.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-910 size-full" src="http://www.choose2be.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Body-composition.jpg" alt="Muscle versus fat - Nanaimo Personal Training  - 8 week online program - strong - weight lost - weight training" width="225" height="225" /></a>men on 2 different rows having the same weight but with different body composition. The % written above them is their fat percentage. So as you can see, because an image is worth a thousand words, having more muscle versus fat can affect your body image a lot. Some of you might already wonder how do I know how much body fat my body carries?There are a few different ways to find out.</p>
<p class="p2" style="text-align: center;"><b>How do you mesure body fat?</b></p>
<p class="p5" style="text-align: justify;">The most accurate way is body submersion also call hydrostatic weighing. <a href="http://www.choose2be.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/19-de-cote-grande-taille-reduit-copy-2.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-467 size-medium" title="Muscle versus fat" src="http://www.choose2be.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/19-de-cote-grande-taille-reduit-copy-2-140x300.jpg" alt="Muscle versus fat - Nanaimo Personal Training  - 8 week online program - strong - weight lost - weight training" width="140" height="300" /></a>"Hydrostatic weighing, also referred to as underwater weighing, hydrostatic body composition analysis,and hydrodensitometry, is a technique for measuring the mass per unit volume of a living person's body. " Wikipedia says That not many people can afford that and this helped design other ways of knowing someone's fat percentage. For example using a fat caliper; most <a href="http://www.choose2be.ca/personaltraining/"><span class="s1">personal train</span>ers</a> use this tool to help their clients access fat percentage. Another way is by using a biometrical impedance scale, if you want to know more about it, check this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioelectrical_impedance_analysis"><span class="s1">wikipedia link</span></a>. I have used a fews different varieties of these scale and I am not convinced how accurate they are, because so many things can interfere in the reading. When I did my body fitness competition I was so surprised that my weight on scale didn't change. I might had lost 1-2 pounds, but my body composition was changing. I didn't use any fancy tool to mesure my fat percentage. I actually only use my eyes and the eyes of my trainer at the time, Isabelle Vincent.</p>
<p class="p1">This is part of the <a href="http://www.choose2be.ca/8-week-online-program/"><span class="s1">8 week online program</span></a>.</p>