What is Skinny Fat and Why Should You Worry About It?

Skinny fat... Skinny Obese... they are the same thing and now they are finally becoming more important to talk about. So what exactly is skinny fat?

Skinny fat or skinny obese is appearing to be thin, but your body is mushy because you have more body fat then you do lean muscle. Essentially it's the same thing as being obese with the same risks and it show the importance of lean muscle mass in your body.

You might now be wondering how to people get skinny fat? It's a good question and it usually happens because people don't ever use resistance training. They just end up dieting and doing cardio forever... if that's you then you need to look at what you're doing.

When all you do is diet and do lots of cardio, your body will at first burn fat. However, fat is such an efficient and easy energy source to use and store that you body will turn to muscle for energy to burn and begin to store body fat.

The reason cardio doesn't help you is because your body get so efficient at doing it, your body just amalgamates and stores fat. You have to make it more intense and mix in the right exercises to lose weight for it to really work the way you want it to.

The answer to fight being skinny fat is resistance training. Resistance training will build your lean muscle which burns and uses body fat as an energy store. Using the right exercises to lose weight, you can continue to burn body fat get better results.

Now you'll become just toned, tight, happy, and healthy.