Your muscles are like little fat burning furnaces and when you use them, it's like stoking the fire.  From Ivanhoe Insider, a new study shows how stimulating your muscles for growth through resistance training helps to boost your metabolism and improve fat burning capabilities.

The study was done on mice and showed that more muscles resulted in a greater loss of fat and improvements in other metabolic properties, even when ingesting a high fat and sugar diet.

Researchers write, “These findings indicate that type II muscle has a previously unappreciated role in regulating whole-body metabolism through its ability to alter the metabolic properties of remote tissues. These data also suggest that strength training, in addition to the widely prescribed therapy of endurance training, may be of particular benefit to overweight individuals.”

Study authors conclude increasing muscle mass in humans may prove to be critical in the fight against obesity, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, hypertension and cancer.

So what are you waiting for? Let's get together and hit those weights, crank up your metabolism, and melt that fat away!