what muscles of a weight lifter/marathon/runner/compared
Lifting weights will make your muscles contrast and burn fat from your body while strengthening the muscles at the same time. It will help you gain muscle.
Running will certainly tone up your muscles, but don't forget ... muscle weighs more than fat.
When you do your work out , you do not gain weight , your body uses it to build muscles.
Yes and no, running works your legs. If you do not strain muscles, they cannot tear which what makes them stronger. Without the strain you lose muscle. When running you work your leg muscles, so those muscles you won't lose but upper body isn't worked as much so they will shrink.
The best way to exercise without building "short muscles" is swimming, running and other cardiovascular exercises. The best possible exercise for your joints, while toning your body is swimming.
If you not sore after a workout, your not going to gain muscle. When you lift, what you are doing is making tiny rips in your muscle, your body recovers by building new muscle to avoid it again. So if your muscles arent sore, your not going to gain any muscle.
No, you're not "burning" any muscles. What you're doing is burning calories, and you need to be consuming considerably more calories than you burn to gain muscle. It is very difficult to lose fat and gain muscle at the same time.
Your large muscles normally burn some fat. I have no Idea what you mean by muscle workouts. Continuous exercise is better than just short bursts of exercise. Both can build muscles.
Gaining muscle mass is gaining size, as opposed to strength, in the muscles.
Muscle and fat are two different things, simple if eat and do nothing you gain fat not muscle, if the muscle becomes inactive you will lose muscle. Muscle growth comes when the muscle get stimulated or understress they grow in order to compensate for the stress they are under. but the body needs the proper diet to make the muscle to grow as well. http://cal muscle building tips is a good source.
You don't gain weight in order to get muscle. You overload your muscles with heavy weight training, and then eat more to fuel the muscle growth.
two weeks is not enough time to gain any signifigant muscle mass