2. Progressive overload
Building muscle mass can go hand in hand with cutting down the body fat, if you know how to do it right. One of the ways is increasing the amount of weight you lift, which stops your body from getting used to a regular workload. When you do a steady set of workouts over an extended period of time, your body will find ways to get through the training with putting less and less effort into it, which leads to burning fewer and fewer calories. To prevent this from happening, steadily increase the workload. As studies have shown, training in the 6-8 rep range with heavy weights will push your body to burn more calories over the recovery period.