Addendum: Most of the answers here assume your question was Will you lose weight and will your metabolic rate go up if you exercise? To which I say YES. BUT this is not what you asked. (To all people who answered this: It always helps when you actually read all of the question s details and don t assume one thing because it sounds right).You asked if you lose weight faster than someone doing the same workout if you happen to have a higher resting metabolism. And to this I say...No. Let s say you have a metabolism in a resting state that is higher than someone else s. Say you are person A and she is person B, and I will arbitrarily give you 1.5 units of metabolic rate and her just 1.0. Now assume we put both of you on a workout regimen where you both run 1 mile every day, but everything else is left as is.The only difference in caloric output here from the initial time is the workout regimen of 1 mile. But caloric expenditure is based not upon your internal metabolism but by simple physics: Force*Distance= Work=Energy=Calories.The force is your muscles pushing against the surface of a track or the ground, and you can calculate this over the one mile distance to gove you the work output in Joules, and then convert to kCalories. It is very likely that over 1 mile both you and person B expend about the same amount of calories.So starting from time 0, in a month, assuming you and B do the same workout, you will have expended thesame extra amount of calories in working out. EVEN THOUGH you have a higher metabolic rate at rest, you do not expend additional work.In fact, let s look at it from a common sense point of view. If you have bigger muscles and you do the same workout, if anything, you expend less energy per unit mass but you have larger mass of muscle, so in the end it all evens out. Caloric output is pnly based here on physics and not your inherent metabolic differences.That said, why would people want bigger muscles? Because more muscle means more calories burned, but that is only for a resting state and not when doing exactly the same workout.See what I mean? If not, email me and I will explain.Therefore, if I have your question right, you are asking a rate question here, which is whether or not you burn MORE calories even when doing the SAME workout regimen someone with a lower metabolic rate is doing.I think some people s answers are good but for the wrong question. If you had asked Do you burn more calories if you work out? then YES of course that is true. But as far as I understand it, that s not what you are asking. You are asking that if you do the SAME workout another person does, where the only difference is the resting metabolic rate, do you burn more calories, to which I d say NO. Have you ever seen those workout machines that calculate caloric expenditure? Notice that they don t measure your metabolism at all. They know how many calories are burned by using some internal formula based upon physics and not biology/metabolic rate.Again, to reiterate:YES, you burn more caloies- and increase metabolic rate, by working out.YES, bigger muscles burn more calories even at rest.but NO, you do not burn more calories than someone with a lower resting metabolic rate by simply doing the exact workout, because the calories burned in a workout have to do with energy expenditure, and you are doing the same work, and therefore the same energy is expended.Basic physics folks, go back to school if you can t understand this simple principle. Same work, same energy. You can t get more work (i.e. calories burned) doing the same work: . Duh. If you pick any of the other answers as best either you asked the wrong question (i.e. you meant Do I burn more calories and does my metabolism rise if I work out? to which of course the answer is YES) or you were misled by a bunch of dropout bozos who have never taken a day of physics in their lives.
yes, the higher your metabolism the easier it it to loose weight, and working out will help anyone loose weight it they do the right kinds of exercises. exercising will help your body become tone.
Both. If your metabolism is high enough, you can t gain much weight. Working out also increases your metabolism. So if you work out both will be in effect so therefore Working out you will lose weight faster.
Not necessarily. By working out, you build muscle, which weighs more than fat, making you gain weight. This weight doesn t come from fat.
OF COURSE.....working out makes u sweat out all the fat.....its actually very important other than changing ur diet. dont lift weights cuz they will add bulk to ur muscles and u will gain weight...but lots of cardio is good to lose fat.
wouldn t you not have to worry about losing weight when you have a higher metabolism ?? You can always work the muscle groups though...
well it depends working out will defenatly boost your metabolism and things like abs will definatly tone you but running does burn fat.
yes, working out (cardio) will make you loose weight even faster.
It depends on your genetics. I have a friend who eats takeout all three meals a day and drinks 2 cases of beer a week and he s 6ft2 and weighs 170lbs.I ve also got a friend who works out 3-4 times a week and weighs 240lbs.A third friend who works out 3-4 times a week lost over 65lbs and was always heavyset until he started working out.So there s no real answer for that. If you re trying to lose weight, you can t count on your metabolism to lose weight (weight loss products that are said to increase your metabolism also can increase your heart rate and may lead to a heart attack)You re best bet is cardio and eating healthy.
I don t mean to sound stupid, but, if you have a naturally high metabolism, how the heck do you get fat to begin with?
Metabolism is the process in which the body burns calories. When a person experiences a high rate of metabolism, they are likely to lose weight quickly.There s more about it on the site below.
yep. no matter how high it is strengthening the muscles will increase the energry requirements. with higher energy requirments you get higher metabolism, even if its already high.fyi, spicy foods will also raise it a bit
