Jack Fits

Jack Fits

Muscle Building and Fitness Trumps Simple Weight Loss

Whether you are a man or a woman, it's important to your general health and well being that you focus upon muscle building and fitness. Many people that I speak with indicate that they would really like to build muscle and improve their fitness, but are fearful of lifting weights because they don't want to bulk up and look like bodybuilders. They assume that this added muscle will cause them to weigh more. This is not the case.

In order to be fit and remain fit, you must build muscle fitness. The erroneous thinking that you will bulk up like a professional bodybuilder is ludicrous, and shows a profound ignorance as to just how much dedication and effort go into achieving that bodybuilder's look. Those muscles don't appear after a few bench presses. It takes years and focus to build the muscle groups that define the bodybuilder.

One myth about bodybuilding and fitness that would be humorous is it weren't so ludicrous, is that muscle weighs more that fat. Obviously, a pound is a pound whether it's fat or muscle. The difference between the two is that one pound of muscle takes up significantly less volume that a pound of fat. Muscle is more dense. If you have ten pounds of new muscle on your body, you'll have less of an increase in body size than you would with ten pounds of new fat. Fat takes more space.

Some people, who have been trying to build muscle fitness and thin up their bodies, have actually stopped exercising when they found that there was a weight gain associated with their exercising, because of the increased muscle mass. They saw the gain in weight as a problem that had to be lost. They did not understand that their exercising had removed much of their unhealthy body fat and replaced it with beneficial muscle, and had also left them more thin and trim than they had been before. Don't rush into cardio exercises to burn off the added weight from weight training, it's good weight without extra body fat.

It's crucial that you focus upon body building and fitness rather than on simple weight loss. If you focus only upon losing weight, simply stop eating. You'll lose weight, but you'll also lose muscle mass. You'll become a very thin, weak, unhealthy person, who may look good for a while, but will not be physically fit. You'd be far better off to practice weight training to replace the weight of your excess body fat with an equivalent weight of muscle. You'll maintain your desired weight, gain muscle mass, and be a physically fit specimen, which is what is important.

If you have carefully read the above, and understand the mechanism by which body fat is replaced by muscle, you can readily see why so many dieters, who are seeking only weight loss, end up being disappointed. They seldom lose the weight that is bothering them, and when they do lose weight it is often not from the areas of their bodies that they had wished it to be.

If you wish to be a healthy person with a fit body, it's important that you build muscle fitness. Weighing less is only part of the battle, weighing the same with muscle instead of fat should be the goal. You'll still get what you want, muscle building and fitness, and a thinner body. I will be a healthier and fit body with the body reshaped by muscle in a manner that could never be achieved by simple weight loss.

How many jack dempseys and convicts can fit in my tank?

I have a 55 gallon tank with one 3.5 inch JD. How many more JDs and/or convicts can i add?

Jack Dempsies grow to be 6-10 inches and require 55 gallons each. You are at your limit here. You would need a much larger tank for more Jack Dempsies.