muscle gain

[pinkychique]

I understand that a pound is a pound is a pound, but -- serious question -- is the phrasing "muscle is heavier than fat" misleading or inaccurate? It seems accurate to me -- muscle is more dense; it takes up more space per unit of weight, which is why when you are not losing weight but you are noticing your pants getting looser, it's probably muscle gain and fat loss combined. But if I'm phrasing it in a way that sounds ignorant, I'd like to know!

Muscle weighs more per unit of volume than fat, which means, that for say someone who is extremely athletic and weighs like 130, with 14% body fat, 18.2 pounds of her weight will be fat, someone of the same weight, but with 30% body fat, she'll have 39 pounds of body fat, and will wear larger clothes than her more athletic counterpart.

"muscle is heavier than fat" is inaccurate, it's more that "muscle is denser than fat" that is the case - so for the same volume, it will weigh much more than fat.

does that make sense?